The Tim Horton Story (Dumb Song Wednesday)

This video was made by the YouTuber ChristopherMast. He is making a series of videos called "Dumb Song Wednesday". A week previous to the release of this video, I had made my suggestion for the next dumb song and it was to write a song about Canada's Tim Horton without looking up who Tim Horton was. ChristopherMast is an American so I thought it would be an interesting experiment. He agreed and here it is. I thought it was funny that he managed to mention coffee beans in the lyrics.

Finger Guns

This video was originally going to be nothing more than a little effects test.

My little nephew was over and we were playing with Lego. Just for fun I pulled out the camcorder and shot some footage of him pretending to shoot guns with his hands. He lost interest in doing this very quickly but I got enough footage to play around with adding a mussel flash, gun smoke and sound effects.

After I finished a little video of him shooting his finger guns I got the idea to add some shots of what he was shooting so I added some shots of my china cabinet and a bit of the wall beside it. Every effect shot I added to those shots was done with FXhome's VisionLab Studio. On FXhome's website there are all kinds of additional downloads. Some made by the company and some by users of the software. I found everything I needed to create some damage to my house.

Then I came up with the idea for the rest of the video as you see it now. It was a fun little project.

Educational Film Fail

I've been wanting to share this moment for a while now. It's total bathroom humor but when did that get old?

During my trip to Europe back in 2001, I visited family in Sweden. While there I went to Gripsholm castle with my cousin and his girlfriend. As we entered the castle, my cousin started to share an interesting historical fact. The ending was so unexpected. I laughed so hard that I almost dropped the camera. My cousin alway makes me laugh. He's just naturally funny.

I shot this footage on an 8mm camcorder. I did my best to give this a 16mm film look which was mainly motivated by the fact that the footage from that camera was not the best quality.

The hair that you see on the screen was something I added because I remembered watching old films in high school and a dancing hair on the screen was very common. I created it simply by drawing it in 3 different positions on a green background then animating it in my editing program and then compositing it into the video. It turned out alright I guess.

The overall film look is just an effect that came with Adobe Premier Elements 7 so it was pretty easy to do.