First of all, I would like to say that my name is Holden and I love to make movies. Second of all, I would like to admit to you all that I have absolutely no idea what I'm doing. Let me clarify. When I was about 13 years old, my parents bought both me and my sister a video camera for Christmas. It was an unexpected gift for me, and while I was certainly excited about it, I wasn't quite sure what to do with it. My first few days spent with my new camera were spent taping anything and everything I could. Even the most mundane moments managed to find their way into my camera. There was no order, no set patterns, no structure, and yet there was still something beautiful about the whole experience. I was seeing the world in another light for the first time in years.
As the weeks went by, the moments that my camera captured became more and more predetermined. The novelty of a second sight had worn off by then, causing me to find other ways to use my camera. That's when I decided to start filming with a purpose. Being kids in middle school, my friends and I possessed the amazing ability of having a middle school sense of humor. Many videos were spawned from this shared talent, including several that we ended up submitting as class projects. Even though very few people outside of our school actually watched our videos, we still had the time of our lives making them.
And now, close to 5 years later, we've decided to begin again. In this blog, I will be documenting my attempts at learning how to film. Each week (hopefully) I will be posting a new video and an explanation of how I filmed it and why. Most of the videos I post will be tracking my (hopeful) improvement at filming and editing, but every so often I will be posting comedy skits with my (hopefully) improved sense of humor.
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