I started a YouTube channel last week. I am not sure what I will eventually put on there, but right now, I wanted to make some old videos from high school available to some of my friends. I’m sure many of them forgot we even made them.
Here are four I decided to post on my blog:
The Search for Truth
This was a video we made as a Youth Group with the Christian and Missionary Alliance Church in Missoula, MT. We had to include several things in the video. I could only remember the four I put in the opening credits. I must point out that we are all bad actors, we had no video editing equipment or computers, and no script. You have been warned.
How to Build a Ski Jump
First, a friend of mine, Eric Peterson, was taking a video production class, and made a video about building a ski jump. Then we performed a few jumps on it. I am the one who is really, really bad. And yes, that is me breaking my back at the end. I apologize for the poor quality of the video…it was pulled off a VCR tape from 1993. The static does go away after a while…
Evangelism Techniques
Second, I and a few other friends, Seth Palmer and Jeremy Sayre, made a video as a Senior Class project about Evangelism. Yes, I went to a Christian school. Anyway, we are not the best actors, and didn’t have any video editing equipment. We just shot one scene, and then shot the next scene, and so on. We had one take per scene. So that explains some of the quirks. Hope you can follow the story line. Oh, and I cringe at what we are teaching in the video. But I still find it funny.
The Driven
Finally, I was in a band. We were called “The Driven.” I played bass, and I stunk. But it was fun. We actually had some great songs, and at one point I had a tape with all of our music on it, but I have looked and looked and cannot find it. Andrew Snyder, the lead guitarist, wrote most of the lyrics and music for our band. Brodie Ellis is on rhythm guitar, and Seth Palmer is on the drums.
Jeremy the band video is quite humorous!!
Yep. We were AWESOME!
ok fighting a guy with a large blue crayon because he wants to know what the Bible says!!
I know. Did you catch that it was in a dream? Crazy things happen in a dream…
Hey Jeremy, they were fun to look at, will show them to Eric!
So whatever happened to Andrew Snyder? Do you know if he continued to write music at all? There was so much talent at VCS, but I’m not sure how many people actually stuck with it.
I don’t think he writes much any more. Andrew lives in Missoula. He is on Facebook.
Jeremy,
Nice videos. Its kinda like having a flashback to my youth group in small town Wyoming about the same time. We all dressed and talked just like that. Thankfully, there are no videos of me back then(that I know of).
FedEx,
President,
Men of Praise Ministries
Yeah, did you notice the tight-rolled pants in one of those videos? I really liked tight-rolling my pants.
This was good. I graduated in 1989 when only the rich kids had video cameras 🙂 I was in a band too, but it’s not the kind of band I’m proud to show ..but we were huge misfits fans and we went to CBGBs alot