A while ago, we were tasked to create an experimental short film which manipulates the concept/structure of time. At first I wanted to go off of the idea of shortening attention spans, but I struggled to put together a simple & cohesive way to express that. I ended up settling for a time displacement effect by overlaying a low-opacity delayed version of clips and jump cuts in editing to play around with time, using my own archival footage. The clips I used are fond memories, so I gave the piece some tweaks to emphasise that theme. I'm looking forward to summer after we've dealt with the pandemic, so this is a sort of love note to the vibes I miss.
This work is a temporal compression of my socialising experience of the last academic year, and I used a VHS overlay with purple-tinted colour grading to intensify the nostalgic atmosphere and create another layer of time distortion via ironic anachronism, seeing as nobody uses VHS tapes anymore and these clips were shot on my smartphone. Essentially, this is a short compilation of my friends and I goofing off before the pandemic began, edited to evoke the haziness of memory. All in all, this was a fun exercise and gave me a chance to develop my editing skills.
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