They have been around for as long as I remember, my dad had a old Super 8mm camera (which I now own, along with 4 others!) and used to film my sister and I growing up. God knows where the films are now! Thankfully…. as I remember I was mostly running around naked in them, I was very young I need to point out, not in my late teens! 

The weekend before last I went to my friend Don Campbell’s birthday BBQ, taking along with me my new Canon 5dmk2 of course. I wanted to make a silly little home video on it and see what I could get. 

Watching home videos made by people you don’t know, featuring people you don’t know are generally quite painful to watch. I am actually going to be making a DVD on how to shoot a home movie for amateurs. But in the meantime I wanted to share with you this VERY SILLY little video that I made of the day. I took a theme, a silly nonsensical one and ran with it. Take an idea, do it and have fun! Oh and keep it short!! One lens, the Zeiss 50mm f1.4. Very simple edit. Simple movie but he loved it. Partly inspired by my recent visit to Austin, Texas!

Here is the end result. Enjoy!

I was eventually told to put the camera down and have some fun, but surely they realise…THIS IS MY FUN!!