Yeah, Super8 was quite a thing, and cool to see someone using it today. My brother and I - in like, 1977 or 78 - made a short sci-fi movie with a Super8 camera, and we had a bb pistol we used for a blaster prop, and I actually took the film and used a felt-tip marker to add the energy bolts to each frame. It was honestly a shitty little movie, but so much fun to make.
The only problem of course was our camera didn’t record any sound. So we used old style cards, like they did in the silent film days, for dialogue.
(Quick poll, since I was ambivalent on the spelling - dialog, or dialogue? English has an effed-up orthography, but I kinda like that we preserve artifacts of word origins in the spelling even if we don’t pronounce them anymore; gh being another prime example.)
