Scum of the Universe (2012 Re-Edit) - Toy Film
0So what's this rubbish then? First a history lesson:
12 years ago I bought my third PC, a "Time Machine 700-7 CD-R Ultimate" - 700Mhz AMD Athlon CPU, 27Gb HDD, 128Mb RAM and a TNT2 32Mb Graphics Card; as advertised by Leonard Nimoy. It also came with a crappy webcam.
Being a creative sort of person the first thing I did with the webcam was make stupid films using old toys and junk. I made a few, most of them unfinished. Scum of the Universe is one of the finished projects and took just a few hours to make and was completed in 2001. There was no planning, I just made it up as I went along.
Initially I used a program called Video Studio which came free on a PC Format Magazine cover disc. The program was very limited by today's standards. I still have the original rendered movie but it is total crap...well, worse than this one anyway.
In 2003 and I had a movie making program called Pure Motion so I used this to make a "re-mastered" version of Scum, adding credits, proper sound effects (rather than my own gob produced noises) and music. And that was that, saved the film to a CD and put it away.
There was no such thing as Youtube when I made this and even when it did come along I couldn't upload Scum of the Universe for two reasons: 1 - I still only had a 56k modem so uploading it would have been a pain in the ass and 2 - The film went over the maximum allowed duration (for the time). There was no getting round the latter because the rendered movie wouldn't import into Premiere Elements 4 and I no longer had all the assets so I couldn't cut it down for time.
Fast forward to this year and I dug out the old CD-R with the film on and was successful in importing it into Premiere Elements 10. So I decided to re-cut it, mainly to replace the original music which consisted of the theme tune to the 1980's children's TV series "Eureka" and "Robot Wars". The nightclub music was some Playstation demo disc. I've also re-edited a few parts, everything else is just how it was originally...which is to say - a bit crap.
I have a couple more movies that will need re-rendering and will upload them soon.