Sunday, 28 February 2016

Getting started in film

"The Cost of Regeneration" (2008/2010)
Hallo again! I keep promising to post on here regularly, and I never do, and I'm very ashamed of that fact. But procrastination and laziness and the fabled "other things" keep on coming up (often the first two, though the latter does creep in every now and then) and I end up not bothering. So now I want to change that. Of course, if I'm going to make a blogpost that's worth the while, I probably need to have some form of decent subject matter, so I thought I'd write a bit today about how I got into making films. And to do that, I'm going to transport you back in time about seven years, to early 2008.

The 2007/2008 academic year was my last at primary school, and when I made my first 'film' (if it can be described as such). I'd just started getting very much into Lego at the time, and - after getting my first laptop in Christmas 2007 - I was spending time getting used to using the various pieces of software available to me. Don't get me wrong, my horizons at this stage were confined within the Windows Movie Maker box, but there's nothing to be ashamed of there.

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