Do you remember your first time using a camera? When we were little we didnt have loads and my brother was a skater. Back then mobiles didnt have camera on them so we asked our mam to get us a proper camcorder from Argos. Think she paid 300 or so for it struggled to get it and we shared it as a Christmas present. The benefit for me was enjoying recording and my brothers benefit was seeing his tricks played back.
We would go out on a weekend with it to locations and film on the spot and carry a ghetto blaster with us with a Less Than Jake CD in it and NOFX etc and would have to press play and redo so many parts as we werent able to do any editing so the music had to be played from the player. It was such a mess on to get right, to achieve this today would take me 30 seconds in premiere. It is crazy to think we went through all those steps purely for the fun of it. There was no viewers except us and our mates, no big goals and zero chance of monetisation. It was memories and good crack. I miss them days so much now.
What about you, what was your first experience of using cameras and filming?