Your first experimentations with filmmaking?

[GeorgeMaier]

I recently came across a video I thought I'd lost years ago. It's a few seconds of stop motion animation I made when I was about 7, my first ever attempt at filmmaking. I'd always wanted to be a filmmaker but my mum couldn't afford to buy me a video camera so I was frustrated, until I realised I had some software that would allow me to put in still photos and render them out at 10fps - the software wasn't actually designed for this, it's photo slideshow software, but non-the-less I used it, and made something that set me on my path in life. Taking pictures on my mum's 3MP still camera and using my brother's warhammer models I made this.



Do any of you guys have the first thing you ever made? Or something fairly early on that describes your beginnings into the art form.

[Dr. Benway]

Yes, but I can't find it. It is a short steam train video I put togther for my niece who was mad about them.

If it does ever show up I'll post it.

[Daniel Rutter]

My first ever attempt at a short film was an action film with cap guns. Pretty much what I do now, but much more random.

So, for instance... this was my first "film" attempt. At the time I shot it with my then-girlfriends video camera, but lost the footage for it when her and I split up.


But my earliest "attempts" at something close to a film was some game footage montages, which I've since lost due to new computers and backup discs being lost or damaged. Here's one of my earlier montages... it was good editing training!:

[Dr. Benway]

ve since lost due to new computers and backup discs being lost or damaged.

I know the feeling.

[Janke]

Yes, video and computer formats change and become obsolete, too.

But I still have it all - a 180-ft. spool of animation experiments way back from 1967-68 in a format that has stood the time: Double-8mm Kodachrome !

Here's one of my very first:



Transferred to DV with my HV30 (just shooting the projected image on a piece of matte letter-size paper), the sound was added later...

[eiker_ir]

I'm a big wretling fan and around 2001-2001 i used to always go to wrestling music video forums where the users would post awesome fan made music videos and i was always amazed by them.

So between 2003 and 2004 i edited my first video ever, a music video made with photos of me and my class mates at the time. We were the class of 2004 so it was made to be a nice memory of High School.

I think it came out pretty good for being my first time editing ever, i remember using a program called something like "Video Editor" lol

[drapeama]

Here's my very first attempt at "directing" a "short film":


Shot in 1 hour. No script (obvious!) and edit took roughly 6 hours, color correction/sound and all included. I even did a 5.1 audio track at the time, mostly using foley. Came out not so bad at the time.

[pro-hobbyist]

I started with a toy Digital Blue camera and the editing software that came with it. My friend had one and I thought it was cool, so I got one and we started making some videos with it. It took 320x240 "resolution" video for one minute at a time. You could record about three full minutes total before plugging it into the computer to download the footage. Also there was no lcd or any way of seeing the footage you were shooting (like film!). Strangely the editing software was a surprisingly powerful pseudo-nonlinear editor. I still have five or six of the videos I made with it dating back to 2004 but I'm missing most of them. By late 2004 we were experimenting with angles and lighting using a Hi8 camera borrowed from my Dad.

[Almohada]

Or something fairly early on that describes your beginnings into the art form.

Let's just say I was born on a movie set.

[blondandfun]

You arent famous yet, its a little early for reminiscing dont you think?