2009
So, my cousin Michael has been staying with us all week for his spring break. While he was here, he decided to do a video for one of my micronaut tracks, and here is the result. I should mention that he's on spring break from high school, not film school. He's 16, and he shot and edited this entirely on his own.
I think it brings up an interesting point of order, though. I was pondering the fact that when I was 16, I had to sell a cow (long story; short version is that I was raised on a cattle ranch) in order to get an Atari 800 so I could play side-scrolling shooters coded in BASIC. My young cousin, on the other hand, at the same age, is competent enough with an NLE that he can edit an abstract video to an IDM song that, I feel, compares favorably with a lot of adult shit I've come across.
It's a strange and wonderful world we're living in, my friends.
posted March 26, 2009 by agargara
That said, he sat there for six to eight hours a day for four days solid and edited micro-clips. That implies a different kind of focus.
-CR
posted March 26, 2009 by Chris Randall
we had a grass valley system in my highschool and used to do stuff like this though it was more me and friends acting like retards and editing it to Anthrax's "i am the man" or taking a bunch of footage of us freestyle bike riding in parking lots and stringing it together. it was an old system even in 1988-89 but it worked well enough to make the video yearbook for the school... but the idea of having the ability to do that at home never occurred to any of us.. at the time an atari or C64 just didn't look like it would lead to "anyone can edit a video in his home w/a basic PC" type of future. there were only a handful of us who had access to the editing bay at school.
posted March 26, 2009 by boobs
posted March 26, 2009 by synthetic
posted March 26, 2009 by squidgee
How cool would something like Replicant be repeat/glitching the video track at the same time as the audio? Hmm.
posted March 26, 2009 by kcrosley
posted March 26, 2009 by MitchK1989
