Film
Today Google Video went through a major update, now allowing you to download, direct-link, and purchase videos. In other words, online/portable film is bigger than ever. The ability for anyone to create their own television station or movie studio and broadcast it to the rest of the world instantaneously is just plain awesome. Film has always been a fun creative outlet for me, and it's been exciting to see it evolve to where it is today.
The first film I ever made was for Mrs. Watson's 7th grade English class; a VHS book report cartoon for The Outsiders created with the Super Nintendo game Mario Paint. It was pretty sweet; when Johnny stabs someone with a knife to protect Ponyboy, the screen fills up with red spraypaint. Sure beat Terry Hartley's crappy shoebox diorama. My family got a video camera right around the same time, and a fake news broadcast book report for The Westing Game was the first live video project I did. With every subsequent high school project, I learned new stuff through trial and error, the highlight being filming the Good Morning Robinson TV announcements with the Okay Samurai guys during our senior year.
I remember feeling so proud and happy in 7th grade when a teacher asked if she could keep one of the Mario Paint videos to show to her other classes. 15 years later, an obscene amount of people worldwide have seen the okaydave thing since its release a month ago, and it has served as the primary method of opening up doors with the upcoming job search. Who knew all those cartoons and book reports would eventually pay off?
One day I'll put all those old movies up here and on Google for fun. The idea of someone having my 7th grade book report on their iPod is just too cool to pass up.
Monday, January 9 at 11:21 PM
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