May 07, 2012

Knocking out the World Snooker Champion of 2012

Knocking out the World Snooker Champion of 2012

For those who have been following my snooker youtube channel, Niky Adryana, know that I make preview videos for main snooker tournaments. But because the Betfred World Snooker Championship 2012 is the biggest and most prestigious one on the circuit I felt I had to do something special for this particular video.

So, I came up with the idea of making a snooker "action" movie. With the concept of having an opponent who tries to steal the balls away from me.
For this idea I obviously had to find an opponent and some snooker balls to play with. A quick search on internet thought me there was a nice snooker club in Scheveningen along the beach called 't Zeekantje. I sent them an email with the question if they would be kind enough to provide me with a set of snooker balls and two cues. Which they kindly agreed upon!

In my search for an opponent I came across the website of Team Hyperspeed. They are specialised in free running and parkour. Again an email was sent and with positive feedback in reply. I made an appointment to have a training with Reggy, the founder of Team Hyperspeed. I was completely bruised the day after but it was a nice afternoon!

Now that I had the storyboard, snooker equipment and my opponent we could start filming. My friend Luke did the videography and being a Sound Engineer he was kind enough to mix the music for this project as well.

A lot of time has been put into this project and I had a lot of fun doing it, hopefully Luke & Reggy as well. I hope you enjoyed the video and maybe help to promote it!

By now the final has been battled by O'Sullivan & Carter with Ronnie being the new World Snooker Champion of 2012.

Nothing left to say except: "Let's play snooker!"
Xx Niky Adryana

LINKS

Snooker Club 't ZEEKANTJE in Scheveningen, The Netherlands
www.zeekantje.nl

TEAM HYPERSPEED in Zoetermeer, The Netherlands
www.ths-hq.nl
www.parkourorigins.nl

Music by LUKE @ www.lukeaudio.com


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