2004-07-09
Homevideo 80s Style...
Found some decent stuff at the Value Village today - another 15" VGA monitor for $6 (it's handy having an extra extra monitor for working on people's computers here at home, since my extra has been indefinitely loaned to my church, when that monitor blew up a couple months ago), bicycle training wheels for $3 (I can't bear to pay $20 for a new pair when I only paid between $4 and $10 each for the 3 used, pink bikes we have), and a Video Enhancer Stereo Audio Mixer for $6 (apparently it retailed for $75!!).
Boy, that was a once sentence paragraph! Anyway, I just had to buy the above mentioned VESAM to add to my small video equipment collection. It mainly consists of some VCRs and some Amiga computers. Though I haven't used it for anything yet, I also have a genlock for my Amiga 1000. The genlock allows you to overlay the Amiga's video output over another video signal - like when Kelly Hrudey starts drawing Xs and Os and lines all over your TV screen during a hockey game.
Shroom and I did some video work together back in high school, since the Amiga was naturally gifted at it, and we had enough sense to use it. While our english class was studying Macbeth, we were supposed to split into groups and act out a Scene of the scottish play. Actually, as I look through a copy of Macbeth, it looks like we did from Act V, scene iv right to the end (V.ix). Maybe Darren can help with his rememories.
So, instead of acting it out in class as all the common, non-Amiga-owning folks did, we got permission to do a video version. I played Macbeth, Dylan Benson was Macduff, and Aaron, Suzie and Darren (I think those were the other three) must've played Young Siward, Prince Malcolm, Earl of Northumberland, and whoever else was there.
This section has most of the cool bits in the whole play, in my opinion - two fights and even a decapitation! The fights were pretty well done, with lots of bad cuts to make it look extra fake. Apparently, my severed head was put in a paper bag to be shown off by Macduff on the last page of the play. Glad I got it back, anyway.
We padded up the video footage with some extremely gratuitous credits, both beginning and ending. Fine Young Cannibal's "She Drives Me Crazy" was the very appropriate music for the closing credits.
The teacher also (somewhat foolishly) allowed Darren and me to show a segment from the "Nightmare on Elm Street" tv series, re-dubbed by the two of us. Darren did the girl's voice, and I did all the others, including the evil skeleton's chortle when he stuck his boney fingers in somebody's eyes. Campy-gross at it's best!
We ended up getting 95% or so, and had a great time. As far as I know, the video has been lost (Shroom's dad probably taped golf over it or something). But I do still have another highschool video - the "Students For The Future" video we made in an effort to raise environmental awareness in our school. We actually got to go around from class room to class room with our nearly $0 budget film, and interrupt everything to show it. So, I'll try and get that turned into an .mpg or something and let you all see it, if you'd like. It's got Shroom as "Enviro-man" - it can't be bad!
Boy, that was a once sentence paragraph! Anyway, I just had to buy the above mentioned VESAM to add to my small video equipment collection. It mainly consists of some VCRs and some Amiga computers. Though I haven't used it for anything yet, I also have a genlock for my Amiga 1000. The genlock allows you to overlay the Amiga's video output over another video signal - like when Kelly Hrudey starts drawing Xs and Os and lines all over your TV screen during a hockey game.
Shroom and I did some video work together back in high school, since the Amiga was naturally gifted at it, and we had enough sense to use it. While our english class was studying Macbeth, we were supposed to split into groups and act out a Scene of the scottish play. Actually, as I look through a copy of Macbeth, it looks like we did from Act V, scene iv right to the end (V.ix). Maybe Darren can help with his rememories.
So, instead of acting it out in class as all the common, non-Amiga-owning folks did, we got permission to do a video version. I played Macbeth, Dylan Benson was Macduff, and Aaron, Suzie and Darren (I think those were the other three) must've played Young Siward, Prince Malcolm, Earl of Northumberland, and whoever else was there.
This section has most of the cool bits in the whole play, in my opinion - two fights and even a decapitation! The fights were pretty well done, with lots of bad cuts to make it look extra fake. Apparently, my severed head was put in a paper bag to be shown off by Macduff on the last page of the play. Glad I got it back, anyway.
We padded up the video footage with some extremely gratuitous credits, both beginning and ending. Fine Young Cannibal's "She Drives Me Crazy" was the very appropriate music for the closing credits.
The teacher also (somewhat foolishly) allowed Darren and me to show a segment from the "Nightmare on Elm Street" tv series, re-dubbed by the two of us. Darren did the girl's voice, and I did all the others, including the evil skeleton's chortle when he stuck his boney fingers in somebody's eyes. Campy-gross at it's best!
We ended up getting 95% or so, and had a great time. As far as I know, the video has been lost (Shroom's dad probably taped golf over it or something). But I do still have another highschool video - the "Students For The Future" video we made in an effort to raise environmental awareness in our school. We actually got to go around from class room to class room with our nearly $0 budget film, and interrupt everything to show it. So, I'll try and get that turned into an .mpg or something and let you all see it, if you'd like. It's got Shroom as "Enviro-man" - it can't be bad!
