Return of the Cougars 2003 was my very first attempt at making a movie.  It was pretty damned cool and it was on DVD.  Originally it started by chance when I bought a video camera on a whim at a best buy while on a summer trip with some of my friends in Reno in August.

Ok, I thought, maybe I might use this thing a few times and then back on the shelf it would go.

And I was pretty much right about that one.

Until one day in September 2003 I handed the camera to my cross country coach during a really tough practice.  I told him to take a few shots of us running.  So (Steve Scott) runs around like a mad man, taking strange angled shots that I didn't pay attention to at the time.  When I finally look at the footage, and slow everything down to 50%, my jaw dropped and I knew what I wanted to do with my life if I had the chance.

The joy of watching something coming to life and being able to edit every part 100% the way you want just keeps me hooked.  But it wasn't just the video I was looking at, it was a combination of video AND music.  Together, the video and music hitting timed marks and changes in the action and movement, really make this kind of art what it is meant to be.

So every since I found the passion of movie making, I first made Return of the Cougars 2003.  It was a movie based on my senior year of cross country at Cal State San Marcos, my undergrad university.  The film has 8 sections of video plus one hidden sequence at the very end of the disc.  And it was a hit, a lot of people liked it, and it feels really good when people actually like what you do.  Shit, not only did the people from the team like it, but people who hated to run liked to watch my video about people running!! HAHA!

Now this leads me to the second movie...