One of the things the beta unit got me for Christmas and if you are the Other One and are reading this SPOILER ALERT you are getting this too come back and read later. If you are not the Other One please read on.
The gift in question is a set of 3 DVD’s of….
Wait for it…
… all of our home movies from childhood.
I know… Awesome
I get to see moving pictures of myself running amok as a child. It was great fun. I got to see a lot of people who are no longer with us too. Most everyone is running amok for the most part. Because it’s a home movie camera and you’re supposed to act stupid or not. Anyway the home movie camera is still with us and it is way more advanced and not just the fact that you don’t have run to the local photo hut, have the film developed wait days and then watch the movies months afterwards. Now, It’s all sort of instant. But our behaviors are curiously still the same and in some cases even more stupid.
Well the jaunt down memory lane was much fun. The beta unit and I watched and chatted several hours away watching our lives play on the brand new 32 inch tv I know 72 would be better. I’ll get there one of these days. I’m really just waiting for the ionized paint and you can just paint your wall as a TV it should be great fun.
Anyway back to the films, discs … past life in the present. It was a good time and much-ly appreciated present. If you are a relative of mine you are in them too and you are as cute as the dickens well… you were …lol I kid, I kid.
Most of the things I remembered and some I did not. I may see if I can get them on the computer at some point. You might be in the movies too. Yes you.
We watched days gone by from county fairs, pageants, plays, birthdays, Christmases etc. In watching I also picked up some things to remember when filming that should have been followed then and will be helpful now as well and I’ll pass those tips on to you here.
1. Don’t be afraid to zoom in, you are not George Lucas you can’t fix it later in editing. Twenty years from now you’ll wished you had zoomed in on to the stage to see whom ever it was up there. You won’t remember.
2. If you pan the camera, meaning to move it from side to side do it slowly the camera will not fix this and editing won’t help either. And if it’s that fast in real life we’ll get it without the blurry follow along.
3. Clothing choices of the day no matter how hip and with it are going to be for the most part out of style in a generation and they are a good laugh.
4. Sucking up to relatives looks like sucking up to relatives even without sound.
5. Careful about those nasty faces you make when the person you are making them at turns their head and doesn’t see the nasty face. The camera will see it for them and then they’ll see it later in the home movie, yeah its very funny.
6. All the silly little crap that your kids do are great fun for later. film it all or take pictures, if you can.
7. You will be surprised what all you remember about your life if you get to see it again.
8. Hiding your face doesn’t make you disappear you just look silly with your hands in front of your face, smile and get it over with or obscene finger gestures are fun… look grandma shot you the finger. ROFL …
9. Talking older relatives into doing the really hip things are great for film and good for a fond memory like an 80 year old woman on a Harley Davidson motorcycle holding what looks like a pot leaf and shooting the peace sign. This particular 80 year old woman lived to be nearly 100 and still remembered who you were by your voice but couldn’t see that well.
10. Babies and baby animals are cute but only a few minutes at a time 60 to 90 seconds and then find something else to shoot then come back to the them, go away and then come back
11. Live, laugh and enjoy the camera may be watching you, well in our day it is more likely that multiple cameras are watching you as opposed to one or none.
12. Don’t forget to turn the camera off when you point it at the ground. I know you really liked those shoes but no one really looks at shoes, well yeah that guy does but that is why he doesn’t get invited to things
One last thing, It was a very good present and if you happen to film birthdays and Christmas and film the actual gift not just the unwrapping part. The alpha unit filmed the unwrapping of the box oh what is in the box it‘s almost open... what is it… CUT
…next gift paper shred… CUT… WTF mate show the gift we won’t remember what we got or bought in twenty years. This isn’t Se7en… what’s in the box
Oh and man my jump shot from little league basket ball was awful but I had good hair and that’s is what is important.
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