SuperCowCow

Today is middle school story day~       

In the summer before eighth grade, my brother and I had the crazy idea to make videos using music we found on Newgrounds. We got our neighbor in on the project. We pumped out videos every two weeks.

It wasn’t about artistic genius or having a point. We were having fun going through the process. It was the greatest waste of time we ever had. I don’t really mind that we never got found, because I don’t know if we could have kept up with the same style.

Eventually we discovered that we could record with sound, so our videos took a new direction. They were even more fun for a while, because we added a new output for funny. But—with great power comes with great responsibility, or so they say. I think because now we had to have dialogue go perfectly, we started arguing more. Our best videos was where we just told Mark to say whatever and let him go with it.

Fabulous Beasties has so much potential. We were going to go places with it. It might have even been a musical at one point. Mark was full of random quips that we thought it would never end. But as time went on, things grew stale, and with school and lack of interest, we stopped making videos.

I haven’t stopped wanting to make videos. In ninth grade Communications I made two videos for class with my friends. One was a news show based on short stories we had read in class, and that one was successfully filmed and edited and appreciated. The second attempt was a modernization of Romeo and Juliet, but since our Juliet got grounded, the best we could do was make two trailers—which turned out decently.

I realized film is what I want to do for two reasons. One is because of the fun I had doing these YouTube videos, and the other is because every time I tried to write a story for a book, it always sounded better as a movie.

Hopefully I can get like 30 more views on SuperCowCow’s videos from this—before you all get bored and run away. YEY COME WATCH PLEASE

Film, Fun, Freedom
Ian