VHS Fun

We have been set a project for our Digital Practice/Media Through Time lesson to create an animated alphabet. Something along the lines of this:

This is an amazing piece of work created by dropping the letters into a tub of cornflour and water.

I'm interested in the idea of playing with VHS tapes and seeing what type of effects I can get by altering the tracking, fast forwarding etc. Managed to find this old VHS camera in the studio that tapes normal size tapes.

 

 Bought it home and it still works, just need to keep it plugged in! I wanted to use it to feed into the TV though so bought a normal red, white and yellow to scart cable and then an old VHS from a charity shop (teenage mutant ninja turtles yeah!)

And it works! Later today I'm gonna try the old selotape over the edge trick and try to record over the tape with a sample letter. First of all I need to get a DVD or something to get the alphabet onto the TV... or to be even more geeky, I could try and feed my mac into the tv, then feed the tv feed into the camera... confusing? Very!