This is the story all about how
we made up our own movie and shot it
in our basement as kids.
As far as ages go,
I was babysitting,
so I must have been at least 13.
That would put us at:
Billy: 9
Debbie: 11
Me: 13
Davey: 15
This was the best movie ever because we made it ourselves.
The story was simple.
In a world where there is only one spot left on a basketball team, three people battle to see who gets it.
The contestants:
The actually talented basketball player, played by Billy.
The super ditzy cheerleader, played by Debbie.
A talented player who would randomly turn into a velociraptor, played by Davey.
I was on camera.
We would have liked ot shoot the whole thing outside,
where we had an ACTUAL FULL SIZE basketball hoop,
but this was an ANCIENT video camera.
It would only work if it was plugged in,
and the cord was really short.
As an adult, I see why my parents didn’t let us use the nice video camera. But as a kid, I was kind of mad about it. I thought the movie could be so much better if we had a better camera. Oh well.
Because we needed to be close to an outlet,
we filmed in our basement,
called our family room,
a large carpeted room that had plenty of entertaining things in it,
including a Fisher Price basketball hoop.
We had each character introduce themselves, then we had tryouts so they could show off their skills. The final scene was the reveal where we found out who made the team. Yup, three acts, people, and I didn’t even mean to do that. Champion storyteller already.
Due to his unpredictability, Davey was cut.
That was the easiest one; you CANNOT have someone around who randomly turns into a dinosaur.
Debbie was the next to get cut
(I mean, you knew the talented kid/Billy was gonna get it, right?)
but Debbie did a GREAT job being dramatic.
She did NOT take being cut well.
For some reason she still had the basketball,
and when she found out she was cut,
she CHUCKED IT right at me and it hit the camera right in the lens.
It was scary at the moment but ended up being
AMAZING FOOTAGE.
I think she was eventually calmed down by being picked to be a cheerleader for the team, and of course, Billy was selected, and the movie ended.
We may have even called it “The Try-outs,” not sure.
I wish we could find it.
I’m not sure it ever lived on anything except the tape in the video camera, but it was AWESOME.
This makes me think about my own kids someday.
As kids, I was obsessed with recording things,
in journals, on tapes, in photos, on video,
and I wonder if that will be a trait that gets passed on.
It’s so interesting to see things from a kid’s perspective.
I’ll have to buy them mini cameras or something.
Anyway, there you have it.
Another episode of Growing Up Davis š
