445. "Re-Arrange Us" Mates of State

"Re-Arrange Us"
Mates of State
The Re-Arranger
2008

Here we have another student video, this one by high school kids. Obviously not as polished as the one by the grad student in graphic design for entry 450, "Feeling Good" by Nina Simone. But I like it, it's got moxie.
It also makes me jealous as hell.
When I was in high school, I wanted to be a film maker. I don't think I was as insufferable about it as that dumb wiener kid is in "Super 8", but I certainly felt I understood "cinema" more than anyone I knew. I had watched "Bringing Up Baby", and pretended to enjoy it! I saw most of a Truffaut movie for a report I wrote about him for French class! And maybe I hadn't seen 95% of the classic films released before 1988, but I had read enough about them to quote them with reasonable accuracy.
"Not only is that fellow slave Spartacus, but I am Spartacus as well!"
Anyhoo, that didn't work out (USC basically said I could come to school there, but I was NOT under ANY CIRCUMSTANCES to approach the School of Cinema/TV or the students therein), and I never even got to make any cool amateur videos like this. And that's because back when computers were something people only used to make pie charts about their baseball card collections (right?) it was IMPOSSIBLE to edit anything.
This was amateur video editing in 1993:
1. Hook video camera up to TV.  If you would like your video to include music, unhook camera and go back and re-film everything with music playing in the background, then repeat step 1.
2. Hook VCR up to TV. (If your TV does not have two inputs, wait until this becomes more common. Should only be a couple of years.)
3. Play selected scene from camera, press "record" on VCR.
4. When you are 3.24 seconds from where you want to cut, press "pause" on VCR. If you are .01 off, your movie is ruined and you need to start over.
5. Most importantly, HAVE FUN!
So anyway I would have been all over iMovie when I was 17 is I guess what I'm saying.