Express vlog coming through! 💨

In late 2019, my sister C. and her then boyfriend organized a week-end road trip to Ouidah, Benin. She had taken a few videos and images without knowing what to do with them.

Enter: my boredom/restlessness of not having a project to work on 😔

In early January 2020, she remembered having those rushes and gave them to me, giving me creative carte blanche to create a little edit for her and that's exactly what I did!

I wanted to challenge myself, so I decided to turn what she gave me into a mini vlog of less than a minute!

At first, I didn’t know what I was going to do but then, I thought:

Why not use a song as the driving force/baseline for the vlog? 💡

At the time, I was really obsessed with Come Back to Me by Joan Stvz, an electronic/future bass song.

I took bits of the song and remixed it to get to the length of 43 seconds! 💨

Now, for the challenging part: editing the footage/images into a stylish yet cohesive final video. With the snappy, fast-paced music as my baseline, the best bet was for the visuals to match the same criteria.

To achieve that, I edited the videos as a form of slideshow on beat, with some "footage reversal" and repeating frames:

For the overall look of the vlog, I settled for the vintage/captured-on-an-old-Polaroid "vibe". This includes:

Old film/Polaroid frames:

Grain and a 2-strip color effect with added contrast:

a simple font, used throughout the vlog:

What took the most part was, funnily, finding the 1st video/image to put up but after this roadblock was crossed, it got easier! 👍🏾✨

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