Killing Mr. Griffin
October 13 2008 – 4 comments
On an iPhone? YouTube link.
Killing Mr. Griffin from nate beaty on Vimeo.
From found tape:
This footage is from a thriftshop box find full of Video8 tapes, most of them computer backups—except this gem.
I’ve been carrying this around and meaning to edit it for ages (aka 10 years). I finally found some time to throw this together in an evening: super-rough, one-pass editing, no adjustments. I obviously didn’t figure out deinterlacing that well. I’ll post something better soon.
Regardless, this video cracks me up as I was in 8th grade when it was made, and enrolled in TAG (who remembers that?) where we did many random projects like this.
Ouch man. I could only make it half way through. It was painful enough living through middle school, I can’t stand watching it all over again!
(ALSO: Did you SEE that microphone they are using???)
Alec October 13 2008 21:31
aw, c’mon! it’s classic! the more you watch it, the less the pain. you’re missing the end where everyone completely loses interest, they call it quits, and all hell breaks loose.
nate October 14 2008 6:56
From that crowd shot in the beginning, it looks like they lost interest before it even STARTED! As a teacher, that is like my worst nightmare… I don’t know how those middle school teachers do it!
Alec October 15 2008 21:16
haha, i guess so.
but there’s definitely an odd, intoxicating mix of effort and awkwardness. as well as decent video quality. it wasn’t a cheapo camcorder i don’t think—he’s manually focusing. also decent framing by the cameraman, though i do admit much running around and seasick-inducing wobbling of camera was cut.
nate October 23 2008 3:55