TRACKS: A Video Project I Produced in High School in 1996

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This is when it all started for me with video production. Been into it and photography ever since.

A friend and I took the first-offered video course in our high school. Other schools in the area offered it before ours, but we were first in line when they decided to bring it to us when I was 16. I wrote and directed it, and it actually got aired on our local public access channel. Pretty cool.

Back then, everything was completely analog, which will be apparent from the moment you press play. VHS and SuperVHS. The editing process compared to today was gruelingly long, and if you made a mistake, there was no Undo function. You had to do that part over again. Fun times. I sure don't miss that method of editing.

Fair warning, this is very, very cheesy stuff. We were most definitely not actors, and still aren't 20 years later.

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     8 years ago 

    Upvote just for using Beck.

    I learned as well editing on SVhs decks. Do not miss that.

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    Oh man, me either. In fact, one of my side-projects back then was to take Pulp Fiction and edit it so that it was in order. That took FOREVER. Also, Pulp Fiction became no longer a Quentin Tarantino film in chronological order. LOL

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      Thanks for sharing your early work! I have a friend that's written a script for a movie, or most of it. I've been bugging him to start taping it, with his friends as actors and cameramen. I think he fears it might turn out like this :P

      Well of course it will! It probably will be worse in technical quality and acting! But the point is it's gotta start somewhere. A good script can overcome plenty of amateur technical and acting issues. Just look at Clerks.

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      First projects always turn out like that. I've got a script I've been working on as well. Would be super easy to film, and I've got all the equipment I need to make it happen on a 1080p HD level.
      Started off as a short film script - grew to something more feature-ish length. If I had more time and money on my hands, I'd hurry up, finish writing it, and make the damn thing.

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         8 years ago 

        Very cool! Wish I had done video projects like this in high school.

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           8 years ago 

          Flashbacks to high school we did this in high school as well c/o 98 :). Thanks for the trip down memory lane

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