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Hey, I'm Aaron Lively. Five years ago, in June 2005, I picked up a video camera for the first time. The knowledge that we had even owned a video camera for the last 8 years apparently wasn't known to me at the time, but from the moment I picked up that camera, I fell in love with film making.
I took the camera, got my brothers and parents together, and filmed what may be the stupidest movie anyone has ever seen. It was a Star Wars spoof in which we read from the scripts and performed a long, boring, and ultimately ridiculous fight scene. But to me, it was the best thing I had ever made.
So from that moment, I just started filming everyday things. I may have filled a full 3 to 4 tapes of pure nothingness -- of me walking around the house taping nothing. Pretty soon, I felt the need to make another movie, so I did. My second movie ended up being a rehash of the first, with better costumes, better acting, and better (but still crappy) writing.
Another year following that, in 2007, I felt the need to make another, this time bringing a friend into the cast and switching genres from sci-fi spoof to action/drama, formulating what ultimately became DetectivisM: Crime Never Pays. I had a better camera, better editing software, and for the first time, we didn't read from scripts.
Once I moved from Connecticut to Tennessee, I started a Youtube account and began posting my videos online to share with my friends and family.
And I can't be more impressed with how far I've made it in that five years. I went from shooting Star Wars spoofs with a stupid, head-size camcorder that couldn't even play back audio, to a light digital camcorder that finally made editing less of a chore, and finally to a full High Definition camera, music creation software, and an editing program capable of creating professional-looking effects. All this time I've built up my editing, publicizing, and directing skills to the point where I'm locally well-known and relatively skilled at video production.
I invite you to check out my 75+ videos, and I thrive on criticism, so feel free to leave comments, even negative ones. You can't learn to make good movies unless you make bad ones first.
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