Your finest camcorder production

Shorty Mon, Feb 23, 2009 at 09:07 PM EST

Also, me and some other friends are preparing to remake "Cry-Baby" with yours truly as Allison.

Shorty Mon, Feb 23, 2009 at 09:05 PM EST

Best camcorder project I ever did was for sociology my senior year of high school. Me and 2 girlfriends did a skit on how to attract a mate; we roped a guy classmate into being our boyfriend-to-be.

We opened up with me playing a news reporter, then went into our flirting skits. At the end, I wrapped up the "news report" and jumped up from my desk.

The film concluded with the whole cast dancing to a rap (?) song called "Fry That Chicken." We got an A+ on the project.

Matthew L Mon, Apr 21, 2008 at 12:22 AM EST

A bible study group I used to go to decided to make a video of a bible story, set in modern times. - so we chose to the the story of Jacob (from Genesis). It was only ever half-finished (we never quite worked out the logistics of the big car chase after Rachel stole Laban's Playstation). I played God as a WWF wrestler. Picture an overweight guy in a singlet, shorts, and 3 pairs of white pantyhose (to try and approximate tights), with face paint, falling to the ground from heaven (actually having jumped out of a tree - very funny footage of me stuck up there). I stood up, grabbed Jacob from his tent, and started beating him up. Cue ringside announcer. Jacob starts to beat me, I click my fingers, and an angel (a guy wearing fairy wings) appears to give me a baseball bat. Jacob runs away scared, I chase after him, Jacob trips on a tree root, and I attack him with the bat. Again and again and again. The rest played out as in the Bible. That was a very fun day of filming

Susi Sun, Apr 20, 2008 at 10:04 PM EST

OMG, Hunny, I'm totally rolling on the floor remembering that night! Thanks for jogging my memory:)

BOTR Sat, Apr 19, 2008 at 04:59 PM EST

When those Lifecall "I've fallen, and I can't get up!" commercials were all the rage back in the early 90s, a friend and I made our own versions at each other's houses. I used to have the tape until my mom "accidently" taped over it a few years after it was made.

kristy Sat, Apr 19, 2008 at 01:53 AM EST

Me and my older brother made mock Rescue 911 reenactments--except in our version, there was some sort of reason why the folks at 911 were NOT as on top of things as they seem & the 'victims' always died a bloody death. Ah, family fun!

Nix Fri, Apr 18, 2008 at 07:57 PM EST

And where is Mark now?

Chad Fri, Apr 18, 2008 at 04:51 PM EST

My family remade 101 Dalmations. My mom was cruella deville and we all dressed up like dogs. It was completely insane with a diving board scene (don't ask) and a car chase. The funniest part was the outtakes when we got pulled over for reckless driving all wearing dog costumes.

Petey Fri, Apr 18, 2008 at 04:51 PM EST

Where to begin. My brother was obsessed with James Bond so we created our own series of "Chad Bond" movies with our cousins. They were more Naked Guy than actual James Bond which was more by accident than design. The first year we got our pool we also did an aquatic western called The Good, The Bad And The Soaked. We didn't have any female cousins handy so we dressed my slightly chunky cousin Ben in one of my Mom's bathing suits, make up and a t-shirt on his head backwards for long hair. My mom was so ticked when she came home and saw how well her bathing suit fit on my cousin.

Fri, Apr 18, 2008 at 04:37 PM EST

Oh wow...this brings back memories! When I was younger my best friend and I created our own Romy and Michelle's High School Reunion. We each had scoliosis growing up so we even had a back brace scene! My favorite part had to be our dance routine though. We filmed this scene during a sleepover. The only version of the song we wanted to use was on her parents juke box so we played it over and over at 2 am (without any control over the volume) trying to get our obnoxious moves "just right"!

JEK Fri, Apr 18, 2008 at 04:35 PM EST

My friends and I wrote, starred in, and produced the riveting horror film: Gummy bears: Simple snacks, or jealous freaks of nature? Still have the video,too, though I no longer have a VCR.

strickens_girl Fri, Apr 18, 2008 at 03:56 PM EST

My daughters watched the special features on "The Bourne Identity" and decided they could do a fight scene. It was hilarious and they actually did a pretty good job, although they both were bruised pretty badly for a week or so from their mistakes. At least they spent all day working on it rather than lying around doing nothing, right?

Amy Fri, Apr 18, 2008 at 03:40 PM EST

My high school class did a version of "The Princess Bride" while on our Sr. trip. We play it at all the reunions - and boy it gets funnier each time!!

mark in nyc Fri, Apr 18, 2008 at 03:29 PM EST

While my friends and I made several sketches in High school later to be stored on one disk affectionatly known as "Mr. Blonky Wonky's Home (boys) Movies".
Our best production was a 42 minute spoof of On the Waterfront.....which included such great lines as "I could have been a Bartender instead of being a mub, which is what I am" and "the grapevine said you picked up a supenis".

Jane Fri, Apr 18, 2008 at 02:41 PM EST

Funnily enough, my friend and I made several installments of "Rambi" (as in "Rambo") with her cat Bambi as the star. They mainly featured her cat being held in place with a sock over someone's hand while one of us provided the dialogue. Though Bambi always had to travel somewhere for a mission, so we had lots of fun designing "travel" montages with fishing wire and her brother's collection of toy planes, heliocopters and boats.

Boy, now I want to go find those video casettes...

Eric Friedmann Fri, Apr 18, 2008 at 11:59 AM EST

When I was 16 years-old in 1984, my friend and I made some parody music videos with a simple 16mm camera to popular rock songs like ZZ Top's "Sharp Dressed Man", Motley Crue's "Looks That Kill" and even Weird Al Yankovic's "Eat It". This other time I made a scenic film with the same camera and set it to Pink Floy'd "Hey You".

Ceballos Fri, Apr 18, 2008 at 11:57 AM EST

For a high school chemistry class project, me and a group of three friends had to do a demonstration on hydrogen.

For some reason, we thought it'd be a good idea to do a music video, and for yet another reason we thought it'd be a good idea to base it on Will Smith's "Men In Black" video.

We shot the video in the garage, which was great because we only had like three minute windows to shoot before the temporary garage light shut off (the garage light made the lighting for the video ideal.)

The video was kinda awesome, mostly brutal, but tons of fun to make.

boze Fri, Apr 18, 2008 at 11:41 AM EST

My friends and I actually made our own oringinal production when we were 10. It was called the'Haunted Happy Meal'. We made a costume with flaming eyes, french fry fangs and ketchup drooling from the mouth. I played the monster, my friend was the hero, another was the first casualty, and the girl down the street played our heros mother (she was 12 and taller). We had a chase seen where I lumbered after the hero (both as a normal size, and later as a giant chasing a remote control car). We pulled out the plastic army men and legos for some godzilla like action. We even had some quick cuts to leaping stunts. Music was provided by a boombox. In the end a ray gun was designed by the hero (he became a scientist half way through) and I melted into a pile of chicken nuggets, ketchup, and brown patper sacks. It was pretty good.

professor74 Fri, Apr 18, 2008 at 11:38 AM EST

I made an animation movie of a war between my GI Joes and my Transformers. I did all the voices as well as the "special effects"

tad Fri, Apr 18, 2008 at 11:37 AM EST

Oh, this brings back memories that I hadn't thought about in a long time!! My two childhood best friends and I were constantly borrowing a video camera and recording our exploits or making really ridiculous home movies!! The best, though, was when we decided to do a recreation of the Final Fantasy III video game (yeah, we were hardcore nerds!!) I still think it was one of my best performances as I got to play the villainous Kefka!! The production values were minimal at best but surprisingly well-done and convincing!! I'm still proud of our work to this day even though I have no idea who actually has the tape now!! Ah, childhood memories!!

Kate Fri, Apr 18, 2008 at 11:20 AM EST

My two best girlfriends and I did a rousing rendition of The Nutcracker for our families for Christmas when we were about 10 - I played the Prince (I was abnormally tall for my age), Laura played Clara, and Katie played "everyone else". The costumes included the use of a hula hoop, a mumu, black spandex pants, and of course, tutus. Siblings worked the lighting and music. The best part - the "chest hair" we put on my chest with eyeliner, the standing ovation and tissue paper roses given to us by our adoring parents (I still have mine) and of course, the "Patti Duke" between Clara and the prince. We actually thought that's what the "pax de duex" was called. My dad actually taped it and we watch it everytime we see one another at Christmas. Ah, priceless memories.

Kate Fri, Apr 18, 2008 at 11:20 AM EST

My two best girlfriends and I did a rousing rendition of The Nutcracker for our families for Christmas when we were about 10 - I played the Prince (I was abnormally tall for my age), Laura played Clara, and Katie played "everyone else". The costumes included the use of a hula hoop, a mumu, black spandex pants, and of course, tutus. Siblings worked the lighting and music. The best part - the "chest hair" we put on my chest with eyeliner, the standing ovation and tissue paper roses given to us by our adoring parents (I still have mine) and of course, the "Patti Duke" between Clara and the prince. We actually thought that's what the "pax de duex" was called. My dad actually taped it and we watch it everytime we see one another at Christmas. Ah, priceless memories.

Kristi Fri, Apr 18, 2008 at 11:17 AM EST

My best friend's older brother had an Indiana Jones fedora and a whip, so we ended up remaking the first 2 movies in their basement/backyard. I was always stuck in the villain role.

new yorker Fri, Apr 18, 2008 at 11:12 AM EST

This is kind or embarrassing, but in 1994, when I was a wee 9 years old, power rangers premiered on tv. Now to say that I was OBSESSED with the show would be an understatement. I was visiting my parents in New York (I lived in Africa then) so I got my parents to buy me the VHS (wayyyyyy before DVD)tapes and I proceeded to play it for my friends when I went back. My dad let me take his camcorder with me back, and my friends and I reenacted EVERY episode I had on tape. My dad has all the videos we made to this day as proof. Speaking of which, Mandi can we see yours, because I'm sure it is 'oh so good!!'

Annie Fri, Apr 18, 2008 at 11:02 AM EST

My little sister, when she was 5 or so, idolized Mandy Moore. So when A Walk to Remember came out and subsequently the music video for Cry, she made me film it and my other sister hold a fan to recreate the wind tunnel machine that Mandy was in. We got about halfway into it before her eyes got too dry to continue, hah!

Amanda Fri, Apr 18, 2008 at 11:00 AM EST

Being from the South, my friends and I definitely recreated Steel Magnolias in the 5th grade - complete with Sally Field's emotional breakdown by yours truly.

paige Fri, Apr 18, 2008 at 10:58 AM EST

ugh- i did the same thing as your friend mandi, only with Frozen. sadly, i know who has that tape and i try to be completely good to her every time i speak to her

Ep Sato Fri, Apr 18, 2008 at 10:53 AM EST

I just got a camcorder and plan to make a video of the Buzz Scooter Stereo in action.

BTW, "Close to Me" won me mega brownie points with my wife when we were still dating. Our ipods got mixed up and she ended up loving my music selection, that song by the Cure in particular. IMHO the version from the singles collection (with the horns) is much better than the original.