Complex sentence: Inspired by an amateur film crew he sees shooting footage of a car crash, Lou trades a stolen racing bicycle for a camcorder and a radio scanner, and shoots the aftermath of a carjacking to sell to a local TV station.
Split into simpler sentences: Inspired by an amateur film crew he sees shooting footage of a car crash, Lou acquires a camcorder and a radio scanner by trading in a stolen racing bike. He shoots the aftermath of a carjacking to sell to a local TV station.