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Getting to Know Me: Day 8
14 years ago
Day 01 - Introduce Yourself
Day 02 - First love
Day 03 – Your parents
Day 04 – Your music
Day 05 – Your definition of love
Day 06 – Your hobbies
Day 07 – Your best friend
Day 08 – A precious item
Day 09 – Your beliefs
Day 10 – An inspiration
Day 11 – Your siblings
Day 12 – What’s in your bag
Day 13 – Your mode of transportation
Day 14 – Where you live
Day 15 – Something you love about yourself
Day 16 – Your first kiss
Day 17 – Your favorite memory
Day 18 – Your favorite birthday
Day 19 – Something you regret
Day 20 – Your morning routine
Day 21 – Your job and/or schooling
Day 22 – Something that upsets you
Day 23 – Something that makes you feel better
Day 24 – Something that makes you cry
Day 25 – Your sleeping habits
Day 26 – Your fears
Day 27 – Your favorite place
Day 28 – Something that you miss
Day 29 – Your favorite foods/drinks
Day 30 – Your aspirations
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Well, I have more than one precious item, of course. So, if I have to pick one, I would probably pick an award that I won for an intentionally bad horror movie that I made.
The story is as follows: When I was a senior in high school, I was taking a computer applications class. It was way too easy and I could have taken a free period, but study halls always bored me.
Anyway, as part of the class, we had to make a submission into a regional electronic media competition. Since there were so few students in the class, we decided to work together, but the group settle on making a movie that was insanely stupid. I refused to do it, because the concept for the movie was dumb, not funny, and just a cheap laugh. This led to my teacher essentially rolling her eyes at me and telling me to just make my own movie.
So I recruited some of my brother's friends and we set about making an intentionally bad movie since I did not have the resources, time, or talent to actually make something that was actually good. Making movies is a hobby of mine, but they're usually stuff that's already intentionally bad or something like a mockumentary because I don't hold any pretensions about being a good actor or having any talent as a filmmaker. It's just something stupid and fun.
We created a horrible movie about some kids investigating a supposedly haunted house and getting killed off one by one by "The Master" (Which I ripped off from Manos: The Hands of Fate), which was me with a pillowcase on my head. We added intentional mistakes and screw-ups, so there was at least SOME effort involved.
The video was made over the course of an afternoon so I got to spend a few weeks of class doing nothing while watching my classmates try to make their own video. They ended up dropping their original concept and went with an idea that I had actually suggested. But I was glad I wasn't part of the group because if the footage I saw being filmed was any indication, it turned out to be horrible.
The day of the competition came and I had to sit as award after award was presented, and I realized just how my video didn't really fit the overall tone of the show. With categories like "Best Documentary" and "Best 3D Animation", I realized that a movie where the last surviving teen suffers a heart attack on the stairs of a haunted house was not really going to fit anywhere. As it came to the "Best in Show" award, they announced a new category called "Judge's Choice", and how the recipient was a video that the judges loved and was talked about almost every day.
And, as you can probably guess, they announced my name. The look of shock on my teacher's face, combined with the fact that my classmates didn't win anything, coupled with one judge hurrying up to me in the lobby to tell me that my video was her favorite video that she's ever seen in the history of the competition made it a good day.
And that story went in waaaaaay too long.
Day 02 - First love
Day 03 – Your parents
Day 04 – Your music
Day 05 – Your definition of love
Day 06 – Your hobbies
Day 07 – Your best friend
Day 08 – A precious item
Day 09 – Your beliefs
Day 10 – An inspiration
Day 11 – Your siblings
Day 12 – What’s in your bag
Day 13 – Your mode of transportation
Day 14 – Where you live
Day 15 – Something you love about yourself
Day 16 – Your first kiss
Day 17 – Your favorite memory
Day 18 – Your favorite birthday
Day 19 – Something you regret
Day 20 – Your morning routine
Day 21 – Your job and/or schooling
Day 22 – Something that upsets you
Day 23 – Something that makes you feel better
Day 24 – Something that makes you cry
Day 25 – Your sleeping habits
Day 26 – Your fears
Day 27 – Your favorite place
Day 28 – Something that you miss
Day 29 – Your favorite foods/drinks
Day 30 – Your aspirations
________________________________________________________-
Well, I have more than one precious item, of course. So, if I have to pick one, I would probably pick an award that I won for an intentionally bad horror movie that I made.
The story is as follows: When I was a senior in high school, I was taking a computer applications class. It was way too easy and I could have taken a free period, but study halls always bored me.
Anyway, as part of the class, we had to make a submission into a regional electronic media competition. Since there were so few students in the class, we decided to work together, but the group settle on making a movie that was insanely stupid. I refused to do it, because the concept for the movie was dumb, not funny, and just a cheap laugh. This led to my teacher essentially rolling her eyes at me and telling me to just make my own movie.
So I recruited some of my brother's friends and we set about making an intentionally bad movie since I did not have the resources, time, or talent to actually make something that was actually good. Making movies is a hobby of mine, but they're usually stuff that's already intentionally bad or something like a mockumentary because I don't hold any pretensions about being a good actor or having any talent as a filmmaker. It's just something stupid and fun.
We created a horrible movie about some kids investigating a supposedly haunted house and getting killed off one by one by "The Master" (Which I ripped off from Manos: The Hands of Fate), which was me with a pillowcase on my head. We added intentional mistakes and screw-ups, so there was at least SOME effort involved.
The video was made over the course of an afternoon so I got to spend a few weeks of class doing nothing while watching my classmates try to make their own video. They ended up dropping their original concept and went with an idea that I had actually suggested. But I was glad I wasn't part of the group because if the footage I saw being filmed was any indication, it turned out to be horrible.
The day of the competition came and I had to sit as award after award was presented, and I realized just how my video didn't really fit the overall tone of the show. With categories like "Best Documentary" and "Best 3D Animation", I realized that a movie where the last surviving teen suffers a heart attack on the stairs of a haunted house was not really going to fit anywhere. As it came to the "Best in Show" award, they announced a new category called "Judge's Choice", and how the recipient was a video that the judges loved and was talked about almost every day.
And, as you can probably guess, they announced my name. The look of shock on my teacher's face, combined with the fact that my classmates didn't win anything, coupled with one judge hurrying up to me in the lobby to tell me that my video was her favorite video that she's ever seen in the history of the competition made it a good day.
And that story went in waaaaaay too long.
