I can't be the only person who ever did this: when I was a kid, I would make "action movies" with my brother and his friend on a VHS camera that my mom could occasionally borrow from her work. I was literally "camera cutting": we'd record a shot, I'd roll the camera back and record the next shot on top of the ending of the previous shot, and so on until we had 4-5 minutes' worth...and we got bored.
This particular camera had an "audio dub" button that would let us replace the soundtrack with selections from my favorite movie scores. (I would make a "mix cassette" loosely synched and then play it while dubbing the tape from the camera to a VCR.) See if you can tell what I was listening to circa 1989-90...
By the way, that's me with the high voice (before it changed) narrating. The fourth one has a different setting and style because we did it with my friend from work (the supermarket).
It was not long after this that I started Film Score Monthly!
These are a lot of fun. I should do this with my niece and nephew when they get a bit older so they have something (else) ridiculous to look back on when they grow up!
Ha!! The family camcorder we had had a similar function and my younger brother and I would use it to dub in Three Stooges-style sound effects.
If you want to see something really scary, my brother and I re-enacted the "You're going the wrong way!" scene from Planes, Trains & Automobiles. It's not on YouTube but I tweeted a brief excerpt: https://twitter.com/Saslow_Scott/status/929471188589350912
Ha!! The family camcorder we had had a similar function and my younger brother and I would use it to dub in Three Stooges-style sound effects.
If you want to see something really scary, my brother and I re-enacted the "You're going the wrong way!" scene from Planes, Trains & Automobiles. It's not on YouTube but I tweeted a brief excerpt: https://twitter.com/Saslow_Scott/status/929471188589350912
I thought those movies were fun. Your twins are darling. Yes, people, with two daughters he does need money. Take it from a mom of grown twin daughters. Wait until he has to pay for TWO prom dresses with heels and jewelry. Trust me, that is less painful than only paying for one outfit while the other one sits home in tears. Then there is college for two. Trying to send one to a college class every odd day and the other every even day in order to only pay for one tuition just does NOT work. (No, I never did that.) Still my journey with twins was wonderful. Wish I'd taken more films of my children at various stages of their lives so keep filming them, Lukas.
Brilliant stuff Lukas! They reminded me of the Turkish "Superman" and "Star Wars" versions of the real jobbies, although I'm honestly not sure who had the upper hand technically there. I imagine that you have advanced in the last 30 years, and so I guess that your upcoming big-screen venture will be even more professional looking than those old Turkeys.
It also crossed my mind that it's funny how shooting people dead in home movies was so genuinely innocent in those days.
I think I could place about 75% of the scores, but as an elder statesman even some of them were too recent to register with me.
I made home movies too, but I was a bit older than you when I made "Monster From the Bleak Unknown". Around 1985 I think. I was already in my mid-20s! No way to dub in a music track. It didn't even cross my mind. Earlier efforts were with the home movies of my mum and dad - and brother - in London in 1979. We filmed a boat trip from the Thames, and passing under the bridges I would pan towards the sky, with the intention of playing the silent movie in front of my grandparents with the opening fanfare of my then recently acquired LP of QB VII as an accompaniment.. I'd have had to set up the record player and all that, so in the end I didn't bother.
Great stuff (yours, not mine). I sense a parallel with Spielberg's youth. Is there a connection?
Oh geez, do those clips ever bring back memories of the super 8 movies I made with my friends growing up. I had a Sankyo sound camera and the very rad Sankyo Super 800 projector that I STILL have along with a bunch of purchased movies...believe it or not I actually have the full movie of Silver Streak on Super 8! The projector allowed me to dub sound onto the film after it had been processed. I remember using Donaggio's End Title from my LP of Piranha for one of my early attempts at mixing in score for a family summer trip...it was so very impressive to be able to do that back in (I'm going to guess) 1985.
Anyway, thanks for sharing those Lukas...great stuff.
The few cues that people probably can't recognize are from the Japanese anime series "Macross" by Kentaro Haneda. I was a huge "Robotech" fan and tracked down the soundtracks to the original Japanese shows too!
Lukas, if you want to make money, start making funny or charming "candid" home videos of your family, especially the children, and put them on youtube. A narrative direction or some extreme personality traits would help. If you can get advertisers ("monetize your content"), you could make thousands per week.
It's a kind of DIY reality television, and some people are making a good living at it.
Lukas, if you want to make money, start making funny or charming "candid" home videos of your family, especially the children, and put them on youtube. A narrative direction or some extreme personality traits would help. If you can get advertisers ("monetize your content"), you could make thousands per week.
It's a kind of DIY reality television, and some people are making a good living at it.
Oh, I have thought of it. The reality is it's a ton of work to do this seriously, and also involves the entire family. I've filmed the kids singing a little bit and they are too young to know what's really going on, so I really don't like to do it too often or extensively.
The home videos are disturbingly violent but hilarious! I really love the multiple zoom out from the house and then the little house model "blowing up".
(No, I never did that.) Still my journey with twins was wonderful. Wish I'd taken more films of my children at various stages of their lives so keep filming them, Lukas. 
