The cultural shift toward real

Audiences now value storytelling that feels genuine and relatable. This trend rewards creators who embrace experimentation and let personality shine through, rather than trying to produce something flawless.

Analog nostalgia

Film grain, scratches, and vintage filters are back in style. Like vinyl records, these lo-fi visuals have a more human and authentic feel. For audiences, they bring a sense of comfort and familiarity, reminding people of old home movies and TV shows. This makes content feel warmer than polished digital video. From music videos shot on VHS to short films with 16mm overlays, the analog look gives viewers the sense they’re watching something timeless and authentic.

Social media fatigue

With 40% of videos on major social media platforms now made by AI, people are noticing content that feels real more than ever. A polished shot can feel more like an ad than a real moment. Imperfect clips with uneven lighting, shaky movement, or rough audio feel closer to everyday life and are easier to relate to. For filmmakers, this is good news too. Lower production value means less time on set and less money spent while still connecting better with audiences.

Early internet and home video influence

The grainy charm of early webcams, pixelated YouTube uploads, and awkward framing have grown into their own style. Many Gen Z creators copy these lo-fi quirks to give their content a nostalgic feel and connect with audiences who grew up online. For creators, this style is practical, too. Faster production enables them to stay ahead of social media trends.

How to get the aesthetic of imperfection

Creating the look of imperfection means intentionally using small flaws in camera work, lighting, texture, editing, and sound to make your content feel more authentic, relatable, and alive for viewers.

Camera work

When the camera shakes, zooms in suddenly, or frames something in a way that feels a little “off”, the video feels more real. These small “mistakes” copy the way people move in real life, which helps your viewers feel like they are there in the moment.

Lighting

Instead of using studio lights and softboxes, you can play around with sunlight, shadows, and even the lamps already in the room. The video will look less perfect, but feel more natural, making the scene feel more like a real place.

Texture

Adding film grain, noise, fuzz, blur, or overlays can change how your video feels, making the picture look less perfect and more human. These effects remind people of old movies and home videos, adding a sense of familiarity and warmth.

Editing and pacing

When a video uses jump cuts, small mistakes, or changes that don’t line up perfectly, it can feel messy but exciting. These editing choices break away from the smooth style and give your video energy and personality.

Sound design

Including ambient room tone, mic pops, or leaving in a laugh or stumble makes audio feel more alive. These sounds make the scene feel real and help people connect with what’s happening, as if they were there in person.

Why raw connects and how creators use it

From online influencers to filmmakers, both big and small brands are using raw, unpolished content to create a sense of trust, emotional connection, and authenticity that stands out in crowded feeds.

Trust and relatability

With raw content, viewers feel like they’re seeing the real you, not a curated façade. That trust translates into deeper loyalty and higher engagement. Small brands in particular are embracing this by filming behind-the-scenes clips on their phones, capturing team members, day-to-day processes, and products in progress. These lo-fi glimpses invite audiences into the room, creating a sense of authenticity that polished campaigns can rarely match.

Anti-advertising

In a crowded feed, polished content often screams “ad.” Unpolished content, by contrast, feels more like a friend’s post — and that makes people lean in instead of scrolling past. 

Larger brands have even begun experimenting with this approach, layering in shaky handheld footage or deliberately rough edits to bring a raw, organic feel to campaigns that would otherwise seem overly manufactured.

The Lululemon campaign featuring Joan MacDonald used splitscreen, fast edits, and lots of film grain to create an energetic and relatable feel. The video used photos and phone-filmed clips on a pale pink background, giving it a VHS-style vibe.

Emotional immediacy

Imperfections — a shaky laugh, a quick pan, a clipped breath — make a video feel alive in the moment. They create presence and immediacy that’s hard to replicate with heavily produced content. YouTubers play with this dynamic through jump cuts, unpolished B-roll, and off-the-cuff commentary. At the same time, TikTok creators sometimes go as far as to downgrade video quality on purpose to mimic the lo-fi, filmed-at-home aesthetic. Both platforms thrive on this sense of intimacy, making rawness part of the brand.

Algorithm advantage

Feed-based platforms are designed to reward content that feels native, and authentic-looking clips often perform better than glossy, overtly “produced” videos. Musicians have leaned into this by creating VHS-style lyric videos or stripped-back performance clips. The DIY aesthetic not only connects fans to a more intimate vibe but also accelerates the content cycle, as these formats require significantly less production time. That speed allows creators to stay present in the feed, which is exactly what the algorithms favor.

Artlist picks — Perfect is dead collection

Artlist has handpicked sets of footage, music, sound effects, and templates that embody the imperfect-but-powerful look.

Imperfect stock footage

This collection features handheld B-roll, gritty textures, and authentic moments that bring a natural, unpolished feel to your projects. It’s perfect for intros, transitions, or cutting raw sequences into a polished timeline.

Check out the Perfect Is Dead Footage collection now

Raw music 

This collection includes lo-fi beats, hazy synths, and rough acoustic takes that add an intimate, unpolished vibe to your videos. It’s great for vlogs, indie projects, or any video where “too polished” feels wrong.

Check out the Perfect Is Dead music collection now

Lo-fi sound effects

If you’re looking to enhance authenticity and bring more grit to your project, this is the perfect place to start. It features ambient noise, mic pops, static, and raw textures that make scenes feel more real and immersive, ready to layer into your footage.

Check out the Perfect Is Dead SFX collection now

Gritty templates

These gritty template packs give you everything you need to create a “perfectly imperfect” look with ease. 

Use Ink Stamp to add rugged stamped titles that give your text a raw, handcrafted feel, or try Ink Flow for messy transitions layered with analog texture that bring energy and unpredictability to your edits. 

Shapes Animation adds playful, imperfect shapes that work perfectly for retro-style sequences, while Bright Glitched Vaporwave Titles deliver nostalgic 90s lo-fi vibes that instantly set the mood.

For more dramatic effects, Time Machine applies analog distortion and time-warp effects to footage, giving your edits a tactile, vintage feel. Together, these templates let you quickly craft projects that feel alive, authentic, and visually striking, all while maintaining the flexibility to mix and match elements to suit your style.

Perfectly imperfect

The art of imperfection is here to stay. Unfiltered visuals connect on a deeper, more human level. For creators, that connection is priceless. This isn’t just a passing trend, it’s the future of authentic content.
The good news is that you don’t need to reinvent the wheel. With Artlist’s Perfect Is Dead collections, you can download ready-made footage, music, sound effects, and templates that embrace the raw aesthetic of today’s content culture.

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Eugene Nikitin is a Siberian-born filmmaker, director, and photographer who’s carving a name for himself through experimental, cinematic visuals rooted in stories of disenfranchised youth. His family is currently in Georgia, although today he speaks from Belgrade, and soon he plans to move to Paris.

At just 24, Eugene travels the world, creating music videos, visuals, and films for artists aligned with his creative vision. Eugene’s work exists across multiple platforms and mediums: online, at festivals and exhibitions, and in print. 

Eugene’s filmmaking style treads the line between cinematic and pop culture, and his creative process is as unique as his concepts. He painstakingly plans each frame to match his vision, putting just as much emphasis on the planning stage as the execution itself.

Since 2020, Eugene’s worked with Artlist Original to create stock footage for the catalog, combining familiar industry techniques with fresh, experimental approaches to image-making. Today he shares the stories behind his most boundary-pushing films, as well as advice for filmmakers who want to carve their own creative path.

What is Artlist Original?

Artlist Original is a curated collection of cinematic stock footage created by independent filmmakers and visual artists. Exclusive to Artlist, this footage showcases high-quality, creative clips that go beyond typical stock content, with a focus on unique storytelling, striking visuals, and artistic expression. Designed for filmmakers, editors, and content creators, Artlist Original Footage can be used in a huge range of creative projects while supporting the independent artists behind the work.

Roots, vision, and experimentation

Born and raised in Tomsk, a small city in Siberia, Eugene first picked up a camera on a hiking trip with school friends. “We were in the mountains and I just started to film a few action shots,” he remembers. “I discovered I enjoyed filming travel and road trips, so I started to improve my equipment and my skills.”

Eugene grew up surrounded by cinema-lovers. “That was always the family evening, watching movies, and that’s how I decided I wanted to be a director,” he says.

So, once he graduated, he moved to Moscow, where he studied cinema as a Director of Photography, before heading to St Petersburg to learn how to direct. He began making videos at the age of 19. “Just small videos, to learn how to work with a team, try different types of cameras, and image creation,” he says. “Like we did print, we did film, night vision stuff, and just tried to find new forms of media.”

Eugene’s early films were inspired by exploring wild places. “I wanted to capture those experiences on film, imagining their journeys through rivers, mountains, and other challenging spots,” Eugene says.

He filmed his surroundings, creating rhythmic video essays accompanied by music and experimental edits. “To reach a wider audience, I started collaborating with fashion brands because I was drawn to their visual storytelling, costumes, and the opportunity to experiment,” he says. “Working with them allowed me to explore my style, camera techniques, and develop my own creative medium.”

Eugene’s boundary-breaking approach

Eugene spent the early days of his career experimenting because he knew he needed to stand out if he wanted to achieve his dreams. That’s why his breakthrough project was such a success; it was a truly unique vision.

‘Archive Prints’ Be With Ari was filmed in 2021 and released in August 2022. The film was inspired by experimental directors and unconventional image-making techniques, and Eugene used night vision, handycams, and infrared lighting to create a fashion project using reflective, color-changing textiles.

Eugene and his team filmed in restricted Moscow locations like libraries and the metro, using inventive methods to avoid permissions while highlighting architecture and movement. He then spent a year creatively processing the footage, printing and rescanning frames to produce a new, textured visual medium. “We split it frame-by-frame, made the composition in DaVinci Resolve, then split it frame-by-frame again,” he says. “We scanned it back, we placed it on the timeline, and we got this kind of texture that is really different from anything else.”

This groundbreaking project received immediate acclaim from within the film world, including a feature on the Directors Library, which established Eugene’s reputation for a distinctive, experimental visual style.

“It’s not film, it’s not video, it’s not digital, it’s a completely new medium, almost impossible to work with because it requires painstaking effort,” Eugene says. “Printing and then cropping each image back to the aspect ratio we used. Nobody was doing this at every stage of a project.”

Working with Artlist

Eugene’s flow soon got interrupted when he was forced to leave his home country. “The war started, so I escaped Russia and started to make videos because that was the only thing I could do,” he says.

Thanks to the success of his former projects, he started creating music videos for artists, and connected with Artlist in early 2025. “The team from Artlist reached out to my friend in Georgia, who owns a production company,” Eugene says. “We were immediately on the same page, it just felt like a natural match.”

The first Artlist Original project Eugene worked on was Destroyed Youth. It’s a cinematic work that intertwines youth culture, rebellion, and the grit of urban decay. The footage showcases contemporary dance, casual hangouts, and playful moments amongst a group of young people, all set against the backdrop of abandoned buildings and crumbling cityscapes. 

The footage reflects youthful defiance and the search for identity amid a world shaped by destruction and turmoil, no doubt a reflection of Eugene’s experiences in recent years.

“Circus” soon followed, a weird, wonderful, and ever-so-slightly unhinged stock footage collection exploring the surreal and theatrical world of circus performance. Shot with a Red Scarlet-W Dragon 5K S35, Eugene captures dramatic lighting, dynamic movement, and cinematic compositions. With circus footage clips featuring a clown with a hula hoop, acrobats performing high-flying stunts, a juggler, a girl balancing a ball, and a witch with a wand.

His latest creation for Artlist is Ballerina, which embraces his love for cinematic artistic direction. This collection captures the grace, emotion, and intensity of ballet performance and features dancers in rehearsal and performance. Eugene emphasises their fluid movement, expressive gestures, and striking lighting, and showcases solo dancers, ensembles, and dramatic close-ups.

Along with Eugene’s Car Crash stock footage, Destroyed Youth, and Circus, Ballerina stock footage exemplifies Eugene’s distinctive visual storytelling and commitment to capturing human expression through movement.

Eugene says that Artlist gave him full freedom to express himself, something he feels deeply grateful for. “It’s an amazing opportunity because [Artlist] provides the resources I need to explore ideas that I’m passionate about,” he says. “It’s not about selling products or producing commercial imagery, it’s about creating something truly unique, not just for the sake of exposure or profit.”

Eugene’s advice for filmmakers

Eugene still feels as though he is at the beginning of his career, however, he has some practical advice for fledgling filmmakers. 

“Check out the magazine American Cinematographer,: he says. “It shares in-depth insights into filmmaking — gear, techniques, and the creative decisions behind the films. It’s like a behind-the-scenes guide, explained by the people who actually create the images. You can learn how shots are composed, lighting choices are made, set designs are planned, and even what tools or approaches were intentionally avoided. Each issue dives into specific films, so if you see a movie that inspires you, you can look up the Director of Photography and read the corresponding feature.”

And beyond that, he believes that surrounding yourself with the right people can set you apart professionally. 

“My advice is to focus on finding a good team,” Eugene says. “If you have people around you who you can laugh with and stay relaxed even when things go wrong, you’re in good hands, and anything becomes possible. Collaborate with people you’re close with and communicate well with, even if they aren’t formally trained. Support them, build trust, and create together.”

Hopes for the future

Eugene has big plans to create more stock footage for Artlist, some of which is based on his own lived experiences. 

“I’ve got a few projects lined up, and at least one or two will focus on lovers,” he says. “I’ve experienced a heartbreaking story, and after discussing it with the team at Artlist, we agreed it’s a compelling topic to explore. The projects will be about people in love, but not the typical happy lovers. Their feelings aren’t always bright; sometimes they’re bittersweet, and sometimes melancholy.”

Eugene’s first love will always be cinema, and he plans to move into feature filmmaking in the future. “With my type of life, it can be hard to have hopes,” he says. “So I just want to do what I do in the best way that I can.”

Eugene Nikitin is a video director and photographer with experience in working on non-standard projects in the media sphere. Eugene likes to mix industry-familiar visual solutions and new approaches to image creation, and enjoys making the communication between the author and viewer vivid and clear. Check out Eugene Nikitin’s collection of Artlist Original Footage today. 

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Short-form, vertical footage created for and watched on TikTok, Instagram Reels, YouTube Shorts, etc., is the new way of life. And, love it or hate it, it’s undeniable how much talent and creativity are flowing into this new medium.

If you’d like to up your social video content game, there are many ways you can level up your skills. For one, you can read this guide on how to shoot cinematic videos with your iPhone. And you can follow our ultimate vertical video guide here.

However, if you’re looking to instantly add that perfect, stylish, and authentic aesthetic to your vertical videos straight away, check out these hand-picked selections from the new Artlist Social Aesthetic Footage Collection below.

Made for mobile, and built for social content creators

When working with social video platforms like TikTok, Instagram Reels, YouTube Shorts, and others, it’s important to keep a few things in mind. The first point is that all these platforms operate in a vertical format. Most traditional film and video is shot in landscape, so if you’re looking to repurpose old footage from your YouTube videos or other media, you’ll need to do quite a bit of cropping.

The Social Aesthetic Footage Collection is designed to fill the screen from the start, and requires no cropping at all. It’s footage that’s shot with mobile in mind, not adapted after. This vertical stock footage is format-ready, story-ready, and post-ready, meaning as a creator you can simply plug these clips into your timelines without editing — an ideal workflow for fast-moving brands, influencers, creators, or other content-first teams.

Curated, quality content

What’s great about this Social Aesthetic Footage Collection is that it has an editorial style that feels like it was shot in an authentic way, making it intimate and aspirational.

In the world of social video content, authenticity is crucial as audiences can sniff out any insensitivities or videos that feel too sales-y. This collection is handpicked and curated by a team that can reflect the authenticity that is unique to the creator.

Each video in the collection seamlessly fits into modern storytelling formats, as they’re designed to reflect professional production values while showcasing a social-native feel. The goal of all of the footage is to feel casual, but reflect a crafted style that comes from high-end cameras and production, as well as thoughtful direction.

Assets from the collection 

 Here are some of our fave assets from the collection.

Pov, Ootd, Park, Leaves

Our first selection is a great example of the organic style and feel. There are lots of clips in the collection with a similar vibe. If you’re looking to create content that gives a fun, seasonal feeling, then these authentically shot clips are helpful to instantly connect your viewer to a specific time and place.

Pov, Taking A Picture, Phone, Coffee

There’s a casual, everyday nature to many creators’ content that’s simply hard to replicate if you’re not used to constantly vlogging and capturing your own life and adventures. 

And as fun as it sounds to live a creator’s life 24/7, it will always be helpful to have the ability to pull realistic scenarios and scenes like the one above to help you finish an edit.

Smoking, Night Life, Freedom, Friends

If you’re looking to create content that is fast, stylish, and fun, many of the most successful vertical videos on social platforms are presented in a quick montage style that flashes highlights with strong visual aesthetics that can almost overwhelm your viewers with nostalgia.

This nightlife clip is a great option to add to any fast-paced videos to showcase aspirational feelings of freedom, youth, and recklessness that will resonate with your audience.

Airport, Vlog, Travelogue, Vacation

The vlogging style is one of the most prolific approaches for many creators and brands these days. Having a full library of moments that feel true and live will always be powerful to add to any fast and fun video to make it feel more personal.

This footage feels very lived-in and aspirational to a style of vlogging videography that would be a great shot to add in to many types of projects.

Vlog, Slow Living, Swinging, Sunset

As is the case with pretty much all of the clips in the Social Aesthetic Footage Collection, there’s a level of cinematic romanticism that’s truly hard to capture unless you’ve been living and working in this content creation space for many years. 

This slow living sunset shot is another perfect example of an aspirational scene showcased in an authentic way that can be a fun shot to use in different lifestyle and travel projects.

Find your own social aesthetic

As a creator, finding clips that reflect your own style can be both a helpful way to fill gaps in your videos as well as a way to further develop your own skills. Use these footage clips both as add-ins and inspiration, and you can create better content right away.

If you’re ready to dive in, the best way to see if the Social Aesthetic Footage Collection is right for you and your vertical video format needs is to explore the collection yourself. Drive your content with that extra level of fast, stylish, and authentic aesthetic today.

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Travel and Summer time footage

High-quality stock travel footage is a great time-saving tool for video creatives who want to capture the vibrancy of summer, without the generous budget or schedule. Plus, saving time and money on production means you’ll have more freedom to enjoy those longer, sunny days. With Artlist’s vacation collection, you can explore the world without ever boarding a plane. Here are some of our favorite cinematic, timeless clips to bring your summer stories to life.

We watch two friends hop off a cliff into an aqua swimming spot and then switch to an underwater view with tons of tiny bubbles. This GoPro shot is a versatile one that could easily work for a travel vlogger’s social media reel or a mountain resort looking to highlight the area’s recreational activities. The framing of this shot would work well for a variety of formats too — vertical, horizontal, or square. 

This clip features a classic view from the side mirror of a car on a winding desert road. This particular piece of stock footage was shot in Zion National Park, and the area’s distinct red rocks are prominently featured. This clip is useful for any business that serves visitors to these National Parks or as a transition clip for a vacation reel. 

A waitress walks by holding a tray of appealing drinks in an upscale hotel bar. The brass pineapple beverage gives the impression that we’re somewhere tropical, but the actual location remains ambiguous. Stock clips like this one are great because they can really be used anywhere. We could see this one being useful in a video reel for a hotel or a cocktail lounge. 

The epic POV shot shows a surfer’s perspective as a tube wave crashes over him. We love the vibrant color of the water and the unique perspective. This 14-second clip would work well to promote a surfing school, activities at a resort, or a summertime recap video.  

A vertical POV shot featuring two relaxing hikers clinking metal mugs with a spectacular view. The vertical shot makes it perfect for use in a reel. This travel footage would be useful for outdoor brands, a lifestyle content creator, or a travel vlogger. 

We love the unique perspective in this summer stock clip. It begins with a view through a pair of sunglasses, then shifts as the man in frame takes them off, revealing a pristine, sunlit beach. The playful framing perfectly captures the carefree vibe of the season. While it was filmed in Cyprus, the shot feels intentionally location-neutral, making it ideal for telling a visual story about any beach, anywhere.

A stunning piece of underwater footage featuring a woman snorkeling through a big school of fish. The vertically shot footage is ideal for a social media reel. This clip would be useful for seaside resorts or snorkeling schools looking to attract new customers through social media. This type of aspirational b-roll footage is a great choice to show potential customers what their own vacation might look like. 

This short clip captures the energy of summer love. It features a man and woman sitting next to a small beach bonfire, sipping beers and playing guitar. This clip could be used as a useful b-roll for any business in a resort town or as a wide shot for a regional beer company — the bottles are far enough from the camera that you don’t see any distinct labels, so a smaller brand could mix them with existing branded footage to create a short online ad. 

It’s a simple vertical shot of the edge of a pool, but its simplicity is what makes it such a versatile piece of summer stock footage. It’s best suited for a vertical reel, but something this universal is great for all types of content creators — small businesses, micro influencers, or big brands.  

It wouldn’t be summer without a little bit of nervous anticipation before you head out on that great vacation. This clip of a child looking out the window at an airport captures just that. This could be a great opening shot for a vacation recap video or an airline advertising low-price summer fares. In this particular shot, you don’t see the child’s face, which makes it a great addition to a project that mixes stock travel footage with existing production-shot footage. 

Save time with templates

Once you’ve downloaded your footage and made an edit, add one of Artlist’s summer-inspired templates to give it that final polish. 

This simple 3D animation is a good choice for an opening sequence, so viewers and potential clients know exactly who made the summer-inspired video. 

Looking for something simpler? Check out these cute summer-inspired animated icons. They feature hand-drawn elements and can be used to add emphasis in your summer travel videos. 

How does Artlist’s licensing work? 

Artlist makes licensing high-quality travel footage easy if you have an Artlist subscription, and a variety of subscription levels are available. 

A Footage and Templates plan lets you download unlimited stock footage from the catalog and takes the hassle out of negotiating usage rights with individual creators. You can then use that footage in your projects and publish on any platform worldwide. The licence includes social-media usage and commercial projects. 

Looking to explore Artlist’s LUTs, royalty-free music, and AI-generated features? The Artlist Max subscription covers it all. 

Are you on the creative team of a business with more than 50 employees? Contact the Artlist Business team to customize a license to cover your specific needs. 

Add royalty-free music and SFX

Artlist’s curated Summer royalty-free music catalog makes it easy to find the perfect song for your video creations. 

This vintage-summer inspired playlist is filled with upbeat bops that are sure to inspire nostalgia. Perfect for videos about long road-trips, lazy days on the beach, or a low-key hang at a backyard BBQ. 

“Get Hit” by Monako has an old-school, uplifting vibe that reminds us of the DJ Jazzy Jeff and The  Fresh Prince’s classic “Summertime.” This track’s carefree groove makes it a great fit for vacation recaps, timelapses, and video content looking to inspire viewers. 

High-quality SFX can give your vacation reels and summer stories an extra creative boost. The stock footage of folks relaxing on the beach will really come to life once you add in some crashing waves and kids laughing in the background.

This SFX combines the sounds of a wave crashing on the shoreline and some birds chirping in the background. This versatile SFX manages to catch the wave at different intensities, which will make it easier to match with your stock footage. 

Looking for something a bit more lively? This SFX sonically captures the chaotic joy of a hot day at a local swimming pool — splashes, excited laughter, and a bouncing ping pong ball. 

Check out the Artlist summer SFX catalog to explore more classic summertime sounds. 

Summer-inspired LUTs

LUTs are a video editor’s best friend when it comes to elevating the look and feel of your summer footage. LUTs can be particularly useful when you are mixing together different pieces of stock footage, because they will give the project a unified look and feel. 

Look for LUTs with vibrant tones for summer-time projects. Warm-toned LUTs will help you recreate the dreamy, golden-hour light we associate with summer. 

Artlist’s AI-powered search function lets you explore LUTs by style, tone, temperature, and contrast. 

Sit back and unwind

Artlist’s collection of summer stock video footage, summer templates, SFX, LUTs, and royalty-free music has everything you need to make an epic summertime video project. Working with stock travel footage can also save you time and money, which means you can squeeze in one last day of leisure time before the summer slips away.  

הפוסט The best summer stock footage to make your summer reels shine הופיע לראשונה ב-Artlist Blog.

That’s why we created Artlist Original.

Artlist Original is a collection of exclusive, high-quality creative assets — royalty-free music, footage, sound effects, and templates — available only to Artlist subscribers. It’s built for creators who want more than just stock assets. It’s for artists and brands who want to make something that feels unique, authentic, and truly their own. 

Created with purpose, guided by insight

Artlist Original isn’t just about creating beautiful content. It’s about creating the right content.

We start by listening to our community and global industry trends. The Artlist Original team uses platform data and industry insights to determine what’s relevant, what’s missing, and what’s coming next. The team follows trends and innovation in video making and spots artists with a unique style they want to work with, all with the video creator in mind. This results in a library that reflects the real needs of modern creators and creative teams. 

Original content is curated into collections, playlists, and categories designed to help you discover the right asset quickly. Whether you need a dreamy montage sequence, a punchy intro template, or an ambient track to set the mood, we make it easy to find exactly what fits your project.

See Artlist Original in action

Everything in Artlist Original is designed to meet real creators’ needs. Here are just a few favorites, made exclusively for Artlist subscribers.

Featured music: Sounds that drive emotion

Whether you’re editing a heartfelt short film or a high-energy sports montage, Music Original Music has tracks made to move your audience.

Check out these exclusive tracks from our Artlist Original playlists:

Cinematic footage, shot worldwide

Artlist Original Footage is captured on location across the globe, giving creators access to scenes they’d never get on traditional stock sites.

Underwater Cinematography 

Alfredo Barroso’s journey from a resourceful Cuban dreamer to a world-renowned underwater cinematographer is a testament to passion and perseverance. Overcoming early fears and limited resources, he taught himself to dive and film, eventually capturing breathtaking marine life for the BBC, National Geographic, and more. His Artlist collection — Beautiful Ocean Life — showcases the ocean’s raw beauty, inviting creators to dive into his vivid underwater world. 

Templates designed to save time and elevate quality

With Artlist Original Templates, you get access to easy drag-and-drop designs for intros, lower thirds, transitions, and more — built by motion design pros.

Try these Original Template favorites:

Captured around the world, crafted by experts

We don’t stay in one place. Our teams travel across the globe to capture visuals, sounds, and stories that feel fresh and different. From gritty cityscapes to epic nature shots, from quiet moments to high-energy action — everything is shot, recorded, or designed by the Artlist Original team and our talented artists.

It’s exclusive. It’s original. And you won’t find it anywhere else.

The Tuvalu Collection 

This rare collection was created by creators who travelled across the world to capture this special, remote, sinking island. Artists captured the creative spirit of remarkable people and places, and we then curated all the sights and sounds into exclusive collections, available only on the Artlist catalog. 

Meet the Artlist Original team

Artlist Original is led by creators who understand what it takes to bring a vision to life.

• Artlist Original Music & SFX is led by Ori Winokur, producing tracks that span genres, moods, and moments, always original, always royalty-free. 

With a background in music from a young age, Ori has been a composer, writer, sound engineer, manager, studio owner, and even performed with his band Coolooloosh. Ori established himself as one of Israel’s leading indie producers, and joined Artlist early on, in 2017, to help establish what later became Artlist Original. 

• Artlist Original Footage is headed by Sharon Thales Refael, who leads global productions to capture cinematic, high-quality visuals.

Known to all as Thales, Sharon is the Content Creative Director at Artlist. With a background at leading ad agencies and a trophy shelf featuring Cannes Lions, Clio, Eurobest, and more, he brings serious creative firepower to the Artlist catalog. Outside the office, he’s a dad, muralist, illustrator, and occasional surfer.

• Artlist Original Templates, led by Itamar Leopold, creates easy-to-use, exclusive motion design-based assets in collaboration with top global designers and animators.

As Content Creative Director at Motion Array and Artlist, Itamar brings many years of experience in the industry. Specializing in motion design, he has worked with some of the greatest in the industry, including Ariel Costa, PES Motion Studio, and Tina Touli. 

These teams work closely with artists and collaborators to make sure everything we release is polished, professional, and purpose-built for creators like you.

Supporting artists. Empowering creators.

Artlist Original is about more than just content. It’s about community.

By working with musicians, filmmakers, and designers, we support the people behind the assets, helping them grow their careers while giving creators access to the best work out there.

When you use Artlist Original, you’re not just leveling up your content, you’re also joining a movement of creators supporting creators.

Check out this interview with Duce Williams, one of our most popular Artlist Original musicians. 

These artists create from experience, not algorithms, bringing raw emotion and real stories to every Artlist Original asset and exclusive collection they create. 

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With exclusive access for Artlist subscribers, Artlist Original gives you the tools to elevate your work, save time, and unlock creative freedom, without the worry of licensing headaches or generic results.

Explore Artlist Original today, and see what’s possible when content is truly original.

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Today, we’re diving into what bokeh is, how it works, and how you can use it in your work to create a more immersive, cinematic experience.

Bokeh isn’t just eye candy either — it sets the mood. It helps isolate your subject, making them pop while the rest of the frame fades into a soft, cinematic backdrop. That dreamy look can add emotion, warmth, or a sense of intimacy to your video. Whether you’re shooting a romantic close-up, a moody night scene, or just trying to add a bit of polish, bokeh brings a visual style that feels intentional, professional, and seriously engaging.

Why are bokeh effects used in video editing and cinematography?

The bokeh effect is a go-to tool in cinematography for creating mood, guiding focus, and adding visual depth. Directors and DPs use it to isolate subjects, soften backgrounds, and draw the viewer’s eye exactly where they want it. In editing, while you can’t “add” true bokeh if it wasn’t captured in-camera, editors can enhance it with color grading, vignettes, or subtle blur effects to push that dreamy, immersive feel even further.

You see bokeh everywhere in classic and modern cinema. In Her (2013), director Spike Jonze uses bokeh to create an intimate, futuristic softness that mirrors the emotional tone of the film, especially in the night scenes filled with glowing city lights. 

Meanwhile, La La Land (2016) uses it like a visual signature, turning LA’s cityscape into a blurred sea of color and light during romantic moments. 

Another standout example is In the Mood for Love (2000) by Wong Kar-wai, where soft focus, shadows, and blurred lights are used to evoke longing, mystery, and emotional distance — proof that bokeh isn’t just beautiful, it’s storytelling in disguise.

How to capture bokeh footage

The trick to capturing great bokeh effects is to understand the various factors that all play a key role in creating that dreamy blur. Here’s what you need to know. 

Lighting tricks

Bokeh loves lights. Point light sources — like string lights, car headlights, candles, or neon signs — work best. Place them in the background and slightly out of focus to create those signature soft orbs. For extra pop, shoot during golden hour or use practical lights (lamps, bulbs, etc.) in the scene. Backlighting or side-lighting your subject can help separate them from the background, making the bokeh stand out even more.

Best bokeh lenses

Fast prime lenses are your best friend here. You want to look for lenses with wide apertures like f/1.2, f/1.4, or f/1.8 — these let in more light and create a much shallower depth of field, which is key for bokeh. Popular options include the 50mm f/1.8 (aka the “nifty fifty”) or an 85mm f/1.4 for portraits. Also, lenses with more aperture blades will tend to produce smoother, rounder bokeh.

Shutter speed

Shutter speed doesn’t directly affect bokeh, but it does play a role in your overall exposure. You want to keep it balanced with your ISO and aperture. If you’re filming video, aim for the 180-degree shutter rule (shutter speed = double your frame rate). For photos, just make sure it’s not too slow, unless you want some motion blur.

Aperture

This is the big one, as you may have guessed from the advice on lenses. The wider the aperture (lower the f-number), the shallower the depth of field, and the creamier the bokeh. Stick to f/2.8 or lower to really see the effect. Just remember to be careful with focus — when the depth of field is that shallow, even a slight shift can throw your subject out of focus.

Positioning

The key to good bokeh in photography and cinematography is to keep your subject far from the background and close to the camera. The more distance between your subject and those lights or background elements, the stronger the blur. Also, frame your shot so background light sources are visible, but not overpowering. It’s always good to play with your angles — you’d be surprised how much a small shift can change the quality of the bokeh.

Editing tips to enhance the bokeh effect

In post-production, you can’t create real bokeh from scratch, but you can crank up the “bokeh vibe”. For example, you can boost contrast slightly to make light sources pop. Or use selective blur or depth-of-field filters to soften the background more. You can even add subtle glow or light bloom effects in tools like Adobe Premiere Pro, DaVinci Resolve, or Lightroom for your photos. Just don’t overdo it — bokeh should feel natural, not forced.

How to create a bokeh effect with a smartphone

Yep, you can still get great bokeh footage with your phone. Use portrait mode on your camera, and you’ll find that it’ll simulate a shallow depth of field using software. For the best results, shoot in low light with small light sources in the background. Some apps (like Halide or ProCamera) can also give you more manual control if your phone supports it. And for editing? Apps like Snapseed or Lightroom Mobile can help soften backgrounds or enhance glow around lights to push that bokeh look further.

Creative ways to use bokeh effects in your videos

There are a number of ways you may want to utilize bokeh stock footage and templates in your video projects.

As a background 

You can use bokeh footage behind titles, logos, or motion graphics to add depth without distraction. It keeps things dynamic without stealing the spotlight.

For transitions

Use pre-made bokeh transition templates to add a smooth, professional touch between scenes. They’re perfect for wedding videos, promos, or anything that needs a soft, elegant flow — no heavy editing required. Just drag, drop, and done.

To set the mood

If you drop in some slow-moving bokeh lights into your edit, then you can instantly bring warmth, romance, mystery, or a dreamy vibe to a scene. This could be perfect for seasonal videos around the holiday season.

As a texture layer

Bokeh can also be used as a texture layer. You can blend it over footage with low opacity to create a rich, atmospheric feel, especially in music videos, wedding films, or emotional montages.

In social content

Bokeh is always great for intros, reels, and background loops that need a touch of elegance or visual interest without getting too busy or distracting.

Bokeh: both art and tool

Bokeh isn’t just a technical trick — it’s a creative choice. Whether you’re capturing it in-camera with the right lens and lighting, or enhancing it in post with subtle edits, bokeh helps you shape the mood and focus of your scene. It’s one of those rare effects that’s both simple and powerful — easy to experiment with, and endlessly customizable.

So, go play. Try different lenses, play with distance, mess around with light. Don’t be afraid to push your edits a little further to find a look that feels right for your project. And if you’re looking for inspiration or ready-made assets, check out Artlist — you’ll find cinematic footage with gorgeous bokeh and editable overlays that’ll take your visuals to the next level.

הפוסט Understanding the bokeh effect הופיע לראשונה ב-Artlist Blog.

Ironically, it’s this very threat that has, in recent years, drawn far more attention to one of the world’s smallest nations. But Tuvalu is so much more than just some sort of impending doomsday attraction. Look beyond the YouTube titles and clickbait thumbnails, and you’ll find a genuinely rich history and culture that the people of Tuvalu are rightly proud of.

To document this incredible island, as a way of preserving its unique culture and keeping its spirit alive for generations to come, Artlist sent four leading artists to capture the unique sights and sounds of Tuvalu. These assets form the Tuvalu collection, available for download in the Artlist catalog. The team consisted of content creator Joshua Guvi, filmmaker Spencer Frost, composer Tristan Barton, and audio naturalist Charles Rose.

Arriving in Tuvalu

Now…back to that map. “It’s definitely way out there — a tiny island in the middle of the South Pacific,” explains Spencer. Tuvalu lies smack in the middle of the Pacific Ocean — right between Australia and Hawaii. It’s made up of nine coral atolls and reef islands, scattered across just 26 square kilometers of land. 

Spencer continues on the trials of how to travel with a drone and all of his other gear — “I wanted to document this place properly, so bringing a good amount of camera gear to do this place justice was a must. RED cinema camera, big drones, underwater housings, lenses, tripods, and all the other extras we needed — we were not travelling light! There are only one or 2 flights to the island a week, and it’s not a big plane, so we all had to sneak on as much carry-on camera kit as we could, as well as paying a good fee in excess baggage to get everything over.” In short, then, it was a little bit more than just your essential travel vlogging equipment!

Thanks to the lack of flights, most of the time, the airport runway is actually just a giant playground for the many local kids who run around playing football, flying kites, and, it turns out, looking for any opportunity to get in front of the camera. “Seeing all the children gathering there, playing together, and feeling that joyful, positive energy was moving,” says Charles. “Knowing that this place could disappear under the sea in the coming years makes those memories even more precious. Moments like these are a reminder of how important it is to preserve both cultures and places of life.”

The creative process

But the boys don’t immediately hit record with cameras and microphones. Each has their own process. Charles explains, “When I get to a new place, I don’t record straight away. I take a bit of time to walk around and listen. I let myself be immersed in the sounds around me. Sometimes a tone or a rhythm catches my ear. Other times, I notice something moving – two objects rubbing, leaves shaking — and I wonder what kind of sound it makes. That’s usually when I decide to record. I trust my instincts and follow whatever grabs my attention.”

It’s a similar story for Tristan, too. “Typically, I try to keep things organic, and not go in with too many preconceived ideas of what to expect. Despite doing a little bit of research beforehand, I was very open to anything and everything that Tuvalu had to offer. I think this approach, for me anyway, helps to ground the experience and allow for the unexpected when it comes to inspiration.”

This harmony in the creative approach “made it feel more collaborative, less like a shoot and more like a shared project,” says Josh. “Everyone brought something different to the table. Tristan was building music from kids singing, and Charles was running around with all kinds of mics recording textures and underwater sounds. Spencer and his team were just quietly capturing everything — really thoughtful shooters, super dialed in. It wasn’t just about filming stuff, it felt like we were all trying to absorb the place in our own way.”

Over the course of the week, the boys captured gorgeous, cinematic footage, beautifully moving music, and natural sounds that are truly unique to Tuvalu. These now form the assets found in the Tuvalu collection, where you can continue to keep the Tuvalu spirit alive in your own projects.

Capturing the unique sounds of Tuvalu

For any creative, SFX are an important cornerstone for a project. “Sound is a powerful way to raise awareness of the richness of the living world, to help us hear what we don’t even stop to look at,” explains Charles. “These recordings remind us that nature is always there, alive, active, even in its quietest forms. Making those sounds audible is a way of reconnecting people with that presence.”

Charles focused not just on nature sound effects, but culture and everyday life, too. His ability to pick out seemingly random objects in the landscape led to a variety of unique recordings. “We were standing around a barrel, and a kid nearby started hitting it with his hand. Right away, I thought it could be interesting to capture the metallic resonance using a contact microphone — especially since Tristan was with us. Depending on whether the barrel was empty or full, the sound would change, and I was curious to hear what it could produce.”

Charles immediately leapt at the opportunity. “Together with Tristan, Spencer, and the child, we started drumming on the barrel, creating this spontaneous scene, all connected through sound. What I really loved was letting the child listen back through the headphones, so he could hear how different the sound felt compared to what you hear with your bare ears.”

It’s all about the people

There’s no doubt that the local children and people of Tuvalu made the biggest impression on the team and ensured their trip was so wonderful. Tristan was blown away — “the thing that will always be etched into my heart and mind is the people. Some of the most inviting and beautiful human beings I’ve ever met!”

“The local people of Tuvalu were all so happy for us to be there documenting their culture and home. Everywhere we went, we were greeted with nothing but smiles and happiness. The kids on the island don’t have much — but they have the ocean and are so happy just to swim, jump, and play in the ocean every day” reflects Spencer. 

Josh agrees — “when they were swimming, jumping off the pier, just messing around. It was super simple, but something about it stuck with me. They were just being kids, but there’s this weight in the background when you know their future here isn’t guaranteed. That contrast really hit.” 

Click to download the full Footage Collection of The Youth of Tuvalu

The responsibility and importance of a trip like this was not lost on the four creatives. “You talk to kids who are being adopted overseas because their homes are disappearing. You hear people say they don’t know what the future holds. That’s heavy. And I think the least we can do is tell those stories while they’re still unfolding,” says Josh.

Preserving Tuvalu culture through music and film

For Spencer, it’s his work as a filmmaker that helps document what’s happening to Tuvalu in this moment. “We now have a beautiful visual documentation of Tuvalu, a place that not many people in the world will get to visit, and also a country that might not be around much anymore. I think a mix of all the imagery that we captured helped show the spirit and soul of the place — the friendly smiles of all the kids on the island, the pristine, crystal clear water, and tropical palm trees. It was really a visually beautiful place.”

“Tropical islands are really a hard place to make look bad, but in Tuvalu I really loved that wherever you point a camera it was beautiful. Combined with some amazing sunrises and sunsets, crystal clear water and palm trees on a remote tropical island, it was an incredible place to document for artlist.”

Of course, when it comes to preserving the culture itself, music plays a key role. Historically, Tuvalu’s story starts with Polynesians settling the islands centuries ago, navigating vast ocean distances with nothing but stars and skill. It’s no surprise, then, that Tristan picked up on this with the traditional music they heard during their time here. “The music was very raw in nature and had that ‘island-uke” style sound,” Tristan reflects, referencing the unique Oceania musical instruments that were being used by the locals. “I think my immediate thoughts were how similar it sounded to a lot of Hawaiian music. There was also an obvious Samoan influence in a lot of the traditional songs, so I definitely tried to incorporate elements of that into my compositions.”

Click here to download the complete Sounds of Tuvalu SFX collection.

For Charles, the Tuvalu music was a standout moment. “What touched me the most in Tuvalu were the cultural moments shared with the local community. I’ll never forget the kava ceremony we experienced together with the team and the residents. The songs from that evening were unforgettable, and listening to them again at home brings back strong memories.”

The Tuvalu collection

Through the Artlist Tuvalu collection, you can expect to feel and evoke these strong memories of culture and traditional dance, too. Spencer’s stunning cinematic footage is perfect for creating travel videos using stock footage, while new tracks from Tristan, inspired by Oceania music, and the unique sound effects recorded by Charles all work to bring the island to life. 

Click to download the Sinking Island Album by Tristan Barton

This project, Spencer believes, can “help raise awareness for what’s happening to Tuvalu and the people on the island. As humans, we need to all do our part to help combat global warming, climate change, and rising sea levels. I think beautifully documenting a place like this is a great way to do that.”

For Charles, it’s a form of testimony. Nature is changing, and with climate change, environments and their soundscapes are vanishing. By capturing these sounds, we’re creating living archives of a time and place under threat. The same goes for culture. During this trip, I recorded unique cultural elements: local Tuvalu dances, songs, language, and other traditions deeply rooted in Tuvaluan identity. These too are at risk because of climate change.”

If you have a story to tell and a vision to bring to life, we believe that all you need is the right creative toolkit. Artlist is all about empowering people from all walks of life to create anytime, anywhere. By sending creators across the world to document what they see, hear, and feel, we provide you with the highest-quality, original, and exclusive creative assets and tools. The Tuvalu collection is now available for download.

Check out more work from the Artlist x Tuvalu creators: 

Joshua Guvi, Travel filmmaker, Instagram, X, LinkedIn, IMDb
Spencer Frost, Filmmaker and cinematographer, Website, Instagram, YouTube 
Tristan Barton, Musical artist and composer, Website, YouTube, Instagram
Charles Rose, Field recorder, YouTube, Instagram, TikTok

הפוסט How to preserve the spirit and culture of a disappearing island הופיע לראשונה ב-Artlist Blog.

The human face is one of the most powerful tools for grabbing and keeping a viewer’s attention.

Whether you’re building a campaign, producing a nonprofit film, or editing a short for social media, including people in your videos gives your story heart, urgency, and authenticity. Real people create an emotional bridge between the screen and the viewer. They don’t just support your narrative, they create a sense of connection. 

Enter stock footage of people: It can’t replace a scripted performance or a personal story told firsthand, but it’s a powerful way to support and enrich your narrative. Person stock footage can fill in emotional gaps, enrich the atmosphere, or add global context when you can’t be everywhere at once. It helps build pacing, amplify emotion, and give your content a lived-in, relatable texture.

Whether you need a subtle cutaway or visuals that ground your voiceover in human experience, stock footage of people can carry the emotional weight your story needs, without the cost or logistics of additional shoots.

How pros use footage of people to tell real stories

Some of the most unforgettable films, campaigns, and cause-driven videos — whether made on tight budgets or full-scale productions — rely on one thing above all: people. Here are some examples of how human moments make a story feel personal, moving, and memorable.

1. Nike – ‘What The Football’ ad 

The final clip of Nike’s ‘What The Football’ ad campaign uses a playful narrative about a father waking from a coma to discover how far women’s football has come. The video cuts between a comical, scripted exchange with his daughter and stylized, high-energy footage of the sport’s biggest stars. While polished and fast-moving, the footage of people is what makes it so compelling. It’s simple, brilliant storytelling, built on a great idea that shows how far the game has come and how it inspires people. 

2. High Jump – Chicago nonprofit fundraising video

This Chicago-based nonprofit provides tuition-free academic enrichment programs for kids in Chicago public schools. They produced a compelling video spotlighting three students from underrepresented backgrounds. The footage mixes interviews with shots of the students reading, dancing, and doing science projects — along with stock footage clips of other pupils in everyday classroom scenes. 

At the premiere screening of the video, the nonprofit far exceeded its gala fundraising goal, raising over $1 million. Emotional storytelling, grounded in real people, delivered real results.

3. Ahmir ‘Questlove’ Thompson – ‘Summer of Soul (…Or, When the Revolution Could Not Be Televised)’ Documentary

Ahmir ‘Questlove’ Thompson’s award-winning documentary uses archival footage of the 1969 Harlem Cultural Festival to tell a much larger story about music, memory, and cultural identity. Many of the visuals are videos of people from that time, whether crowd shots, facial reactions, or city life. The film is proof that unfiltered images of real people, captured in a moment of cultural importance, can elevate documentary storytelling and anchor it in time and place.

Inside the Artlist collection: Footage of people around the world

At Artlist, you’ll find a curated collection of people stock footage that works for all kinds of visual storytelling. Our selection is based on:

Authenticity

From side streets in Hanoi to sunlit cafes in Lisbon, these clips showcase people in everyday environments, a diversity of emotional situations, and different parts of the globe.

High-Quality Production

All footage is shot by professional filmmakers and vetted for lighting, composition, and narrative clarity. Think cinematic quality combined with candid energy.

Emotion

Footage includes subtle, natural, and raw emotional expressions. Whether it’s someone waiting in line, greeting a friend, or laughing off-camera, our collection features the kind of micro-moments that connect a viewer to your subject.

Diversity

The collection spans cultures, ethnicities, generations, and locations. You’ll find families, elders, children, and communities across continents — a global mirror that respects and reflects real life.

Examples from the Artlist collection: Human moments made for storytelling

From stylized setups to natural everyday scenes, Artlist’s ‘Footage of people around the world’ collection offers a wide spectrum of visuals. Some clips are cinematic and surreal, others are quiet and observational. Whether you’re looking for something intimate, playful, or emotionally direct, here are six standout shots from the collection and how they can work for your next project:

1. Father and baby in the car

A dad plays with his baby in the back seat of a parked car. This is the kind of footage travel vloggers may look for but rarely shoot themselves. Perfect for content on family travel tips, gear setups, or how to handle long drives with kids.

2. Boy left out at school

A boy stands alone as other kids rush past him into the gym — the kind of moment that says more in five seconds than narration ever could. Non-profits and cause-driven campaigns can use this to visualize isolation, bullying, or mental health in childhood. A strong visual anchor for messaging that needs to land emotionally, fast.

3. Woman working in a factory

This shot of an African-American woman examining a metal tube in a workshop is clean, detailed, and industrial without being cold. It’s ideal B-roll for documentary filmmakers exploring women in skilled trades, or for brand campaigns about breaking industry stereotypes. It could also be a smart pick for tech education or training content that encourages more women to enter skilled fields.

4. Healthcare worker at home with family

The camera lingers as a tired healthcare worker leaves the dinner table while her family stays behind. It’s a subtle, powerful moment, perfect for non-profit storytelling about burnout, family sacrifice, or the invisible cost of caregiving. Use it to humanize healthcare in donor videos, grant applications, or public health campaigns.

5. Man with roses

Shot through a peephole in a pastel-toned hallway, an Asian man sniffs roses with theatrical flair. It’s quirky, cinematic, and memorable. This clip could be a standout moment in a Valentine’s Day campaign celebrating love in all forms — romantic, queer, unexpected. It also fits lifestyle brands leaning into surreal or stylized visuals with personality.

6. Woman meditating by the water

A woman sits cross-legged on a dock in a quiet natural setting. The light is soft, the mood reflective. This is a perfect clip for travel and wellness creators to open or close videos about anything from mindfulness to national parks, solo retreats, or stress relief.

Bring human depth to your project

Footage of people doesn’t just support your story — it shapes how it feels. The right clip can set the tone, add emotional texture, and help audiences truly connect with your message. Whether you’re editing for a global brand, a small non-profit, or a TikTok with a 15-second hook, including clips of real people helps make it resonate.

Explore Artlist’s collection to find visuals that help you tell stories with authenticity and impact.

הפוסט How people stock footage brings stories to life הופיע לראשונה ב-Artlist Blog.

Creating the APT. camera movements 

Camera movement plays a crucial role in shaping the energy and tone of a music video. By using techniques like subtle zooms, whip pans, and creative transitions, a filmmaker can control the pacing and guide the viewer’s experience. 

The APT. music video demonstrates this perfectly, using a mix of these elements to create a high-energy vibe. These minimal techniques allow the camera to follow the rhythm of the song. The clean framing highlights the performers with personality but avoids feeling overproduced. This balance creates an authentic feel, making each shot purposeful and in tune with the music, allowing the viewer to engage with the video’s energy.

A lot of the style in the APT. music video camera work is created during filming, but you can create a similar look in your projects with creative transitions.

Whip Noise Transitions

The Whip Noise Transitions pack features 8 stunning transitional effects, each with a unique whip-pan style. The animation includes a motion blur and stunning light leak effects, creating a smooth and dynamic movement between your clips.

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Spin Seamless Transitions

Available for Premiere Pro and After Effects, the Spin Seamless Transitions collection features multi-directional spin effects with a soft motion blur. These transitions are perfect for maintaining a consistent theme and style across your video projects.

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Dynamic Spin Transitions

The Dynamic Spin Transitions pack, available for Premiere Pro and After Effects, includes 12 transitions with a corner-originated spin effect. These transitions give the impression of movement across the video, adding a sense of motion rather than just a simple spin.

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Adding hand-drawn animations

Hand-drawn animations bring a unique, artistic touch that makes your video stand out. These handcrafted elements add personality and charm, creating a nostalgic, human feel that resonates emotionally with viewers. With creative flexibility, they’re not bound by real-world constraints, allowing for endless possibilities. This blend of artistry and freedom adds a distinctive flair, helping your video feel both memorable and personal while connecting on a deeper level with your audience.

Drawn Sticker Pack

The Draw Sticker Pack includes a massive 135 sticker doodles ready to drag and drop to your video compositions. The huge variety of scribble effect shapes includes arrows, stars, letters, lightning strikes, and ribbons.

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Scribble Alphabet

As the name suggests, the Scribble Alphabet pack includes 26 letters, numbers, and punctuation so that you can build title elements of your own. Each character scribbles on the screen with a subtle noise effect before quickly being rubbed away.

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Hand Drawn Speech Bubble

The Hand Drawn Speech Bubble pack includes 10 cute and stylish elements, ready to drag and drop to your compositions. Easy title editing and color controllers allow you to quickly adjust your speech bubble to suit your color palette.

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Adding the vintage film look

The vintage film look instantly transforms the mood and atmosphere of your video, bringing a nostalgic, cinematic tone. Film grain, light leaks, scratches, and faded colors add depth and character. This timeless style taps into emotions and memories, making it perfect for storytelling, music videos, or any project that needs a bit of soul. Vintage film overlays and LUTs from platforms like Artlist let you achieve this effect quickly without requiring a film camera.

Perforations, Scratches, Grain, Effect

The Perforations, Scratches, Grain, Effect is a 9-second overlay with a distinctly vintage feel. The clip features film reel perforations along the left of the screen, with a soft, warm grain filling the space — an idea for creating a nostalgic vibe for home video-style pieces.

Square, Black, Cross, Screen

If you’re looking for a retro opening for your video project, then you can’t go wrong with this incredible vintage countdown. The 6-second clip includes black crosses intercut with a countdown featuring words and numbers, all wrapped in a scratchy vignette effect.

Runing Film, Scratched, Noise, Texture

The Runing Film texture is ideal for adding a heavily distressed look to your video projects. The 10-second clips include beautiful orange burn lights, giant scratches, and hairs across the entire frame, all surrounded by a blurry vignette. 

Trendy paper cutouts

Paper cutouts add layers and texture to your video without the need for 3D effects. They’re playful, eye-catching, and instantly grab attention, making your content memorable and shareable. In a world full of sleek digital visuals, paper-cut styles stand out by feeling handcrafted and authentic. They bring warmth and a human touch, making your video feel more personal and approachable. With Artlist assets, you don’t need to be a motion graphics expert to incorporate this charming style into your projects.

Paper & Collage Branding Pack

The Paper & Collage Branding Pack features an impressive library of assets, including 12 backgrounds, 8 transitions, 50 overlays, 6 lower thirds, and 6 titles. Each animation features a stop-motion style animation, unfolding paper to reveal images or titles.

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Freeze Frame Collage Grunge

If you’re looking for a quick and easy way to create a stylistic video, the Freeze Frame Collage Grunge template is ideal. It features 9 modular scenes, filled with paper rip transitions and cool performer cut-out effects.

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Paper Cutout Title

The Paper Cutout Title pack includes letters, numbers, and punctuation elements to build title styles. Each letter is printed on a scrunched piece of paper that unrolls and flatters to reveal the characters, with jittery stop-motion movement.

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Finding the right up-tempo track

Finding the right up-tempo track is key to setting your video’s mood and energy. A blend of pop genres, such as pop-rock, electropop, and K-pop, can bring the perfect balance of excitement and vibrancy. The right track will sync seamlessly with your camera work, hand-drawn animations, and bold transitions. For filmmakers, choosing an energetic, upbeat song helps maintain pace and ensures the visuals feel fresh, engaging, and suitably in tune with the narrative.

Smiley Faces by Shiraz Rimon

‘Smiley Faces’ is an energetic and upbeat track with a nostalgic ’90s vibe. The punk-rock style arrangement and bright, punchy lyrics add a rebellious feel to the song, which features electric guitar, percussion, synth, and vocals.

Fighting Flames with Fire — Instrumental Version by Icarus

The instrumental version of ‘Fighting Flames with Fire’ is a stunning arrangement that could also work as well in a feature film as a YouTube vlog. The piece begins with subtle keys and synth before ramping up with electric guitars, drums, and bass to create an 80s-style sci-fi feel.

The Final Magic by Novembers

The Final Magic provides an upbeat, synth-filled ’80s power tune, ideal for everything from club music to opening title sequences. The electronic pop sound feels familiar, with plenty of snaps, claps, and keys to give the track a modern spin.

Down to Business by Rex Banner

If you’re looking for upbeat pop with a rock twist, Down to Business is a fantastic option. Featuring grunge guitar sounds, plenty of percussion, and distorted vocals, the energetic party vibe is sure to get your audience on their feet.

Recreate the Apt. music video style with Artlist

The APT video’s bold visual style and infectious energy make it an ideal reference for anyone looking to add personality and emotion to their videos

Recreating the vibrant, dynamic style of the APT. music video requires a mix of thoughtful camera work, creative transitions, hand-drawn animations, vintage film effects, and the right energetic track. 

Content creators can quickly achieve this style by leveraging Artlist’s extensive library of assets. Explore  Artlist’s video templates catalog to find resources to help bring your creative vision to life.

הפוסט How to recreate APT.’s viral music video style using Artlist  הופיע לראשונה ב-Artlist Blog.

Every year, filmmakers and content creators push the boundaries of their creativity to produce new and exciting experiences for their viewers. Artlist has been right by your side, providing high-quality assets for your video projects. As the year draws to a close, take a look back at highlights from 2024’s top creative assets, hand-picked by the Artlist curators, based on what you loved over the past twelve months.

Here we’ll take a look at some of the highlights, but make sure to explore the full lists in the Artlist Spotlight stock footage collection, music collection, and sound effects collection for 2024.

Top songs and music of 2024

Music trends come and go, but video content always needs a killer track to set the mood. From cinematic scores to upbeat pop tunes, the most popular songs of 2024 cover a vast range of genres and styles, inspiring you to create your next project.

Escape Velocity by Steven Beddall

With a stunning orchestral arrangement of strings, percussion, and backing vocals, ‘Escape Velocity’ evolves into a powerful cinematic composition. The music builds throughout, creating an emotive soundscape that enhances the emotional depth of your film or campaign.

Tic Tac Toe by Captain Joz

‘Tic Tac Toe’ is an upbeat Hip Hop track with electric drums, sharp claps, and snappy percussion. The groovy vocals drive the energy, while the fast-paced beat keeps things lively and vibrant. It’s the perfect blend of rhythm and excitement, guaranteed to get you moving.

Celestial Rhythms by Ariel Dahan

With fast-paced drums, a deep bass, and gritty synths, ‘Celestial Rhythms’ delivers a high-energy electronic sound, perfect for sports content or action-packed montages. The track’s dynamic rhythm and energy enhance the excitement of any high-action sequence.

Sunny Daydreams by Danny Shields

‘Sunny Daydreams’ is the ideal summer groove, with a smooth beat and plenty of funky brass. The warm piano and electric drums back up the soft vocals, creating the perfect soundtrack for a hot summer afternoon relaxing in the shade.

Good Times by Rynn

One of the best songs of 2024 has to be the uplifting indie track ‘Good Times’ by Rynn. The infectious, upbeat vibe and folk-style backing vocals create a warm and exciting tone, reminding us of the good times in 2024.

These are some of our favorites, but make sure to check out the full Best of 2024 music collection

Top footage of the year

Stock footage is an invaluable asset for filmmakers and content creators alike. Whether you’re using the Artlist collection for storyboarding, adding stunning location shots to your films, or constructing entire narratives, it gives creatives the freedom to bring your visions to life.

Animated Bloom

The ‘Animated Bloom’ animation showcases vibrant pink blossoms bursting into life in hyper-realistic, high-speed motion. In the background, soft-focus cherry blossoms add contrast and depth, creating a dynamic and captivating scene.

Slow Mo Inferno

‘Slow Mo Inferno’ features a wooden house burning in a desert at dusk. The flames move slowly, casting an eerie glow as they flicker through the windows and door. The front of the house is silhouetted against the dimming sky, creating a haunting, atmospheric scene. 

Morning at the River

This stunning shot captures a serene, misty lake in the fall. The camera follows a swan as it takes off, creating slow-motion water splashes as it lifts into the air. The tranquil scene showcases nature’s quiet beauty and gentle movement in fall.

Faroe Islands FVP

This breathtaking drone shot captures the rugged coastline of the Faroe Islands, showcasing its remote wilderness. The drone glides effortlessly through the rocky landscape, gradually revealing a vast panorama of lush green mountains.

Animated Multiple Reality 

The ‘Animated Multiple Reality’ sequence offers a high-angle view of a bustling Tokyo crosswalk. Hundreds of pedestrians move in all directions, creating a dynamic contrast against the dark concrete and stark white road markings. The scene captures the organized chaos of city life with stunning visual depth.

There are even more stunning clips ready for you to download in the full Best of 2024 footage collection.

Best sound effects of 2024

The Best of 2024 SFX collection features some of the year’s most downloaded and viewed sounds. Artlist boasts an incredible library of sound effects, widely used in everything from animated commercials to feature films, adding depth and impact to every project.

Tonal synth transition

‘Sonic Shifts Vol 2’ is a short tonal whoosh with a dark, ominous feel. The reverb gives it a foghorn-like sound, while the synthetic strings add a musical touch. Part sound effect, part score, this can be easily layered into compositions in unique ways.

Back in Time Atmosphere

‘Back in Time Atmosphere’ is a chilling effect that begins with a slow, breathy wind sound layered with distorted clicks and claps. The tension gradually builds, culminating in a sudden, dramatic finish. The perfect SFX for horror, thriller, and sci-fi projects.

Howling Wolfpack

This minute-long track features wolves and coyotes howling in the wilderness. It includes pack howls and individual calls, perfect for setting an atmospheric tone or isolating specific sounds.

Bubble Pop

‘Bubble Pop’ is an incredibly versatile sound effect. This cartoon-style popping sound is perfect for accentuating movements in animation and motion graphics. Use it to emphasize the motion of elements, titles, or transitions — engage your audience with a playful, energetic touch.

Soft Synth

‘Soft Synth’ is a soothing, soulful loop featuring smooth percussion, warm keys, and rich synths. With its laid-back, summery vibe, this track is perfect for creating mellow lounge music, smooth club beats, and groovy RnB vibes.

Make sure to explore the full Best of 2024 SFX collection for even more high-fidelity sound effects recorded by leading sound engineers.

Looking forward to 2025

As you get ready for 2025, you’ll need the right tools and creative assets to bring your creative vision to life. Whether you’re an up-and-coming influencer or a business building your online presence, the Artlist library is perfect, offering high-quality, royalty-free stock assets, including LUTs, plugins, and AI voiceovers. Head to the Artlist Spotlight to explore more incredible curated collections and kick-start your next project.

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What is anime?

The term ’anime’ refers to animated TV shows and films produced in Japan and dates back to the early 1900s when animated techniques were first used. Inspired by US animators such as J. Stuart Blackton, Japanese producers began creating animated offerings of their own, telling stories about their history and culture.

As anime has grown in popularity, so has manga, but many people confuse the two art forms. Though they share similar styles and themes, the difference between them is actually quite simple.

Manga refers to graphic novels and comics produced in Japan, while anime refers to animated programs or films. Not all anime is based on manga, and manga doesn’t always become anime. 

Since manga and anime are different formats, there are some stylistic differences as a result. For example, manga is often published in black and white, with color editions reserved for special events or collector’s items.

A brief history of anime

While anime originated in Japan in the early 20th century, it was in the 1960s that the distinct aesthetic we know as anime was born.

In 1963, Osamu Tezuka’s Astro Boy was released, helping define the anime aesthetic and earning him the title ‘God of Manga”. Unlike the Japanese animated films that had come before, Astro Boy features the exaggerated expressions and dynamic movement we’ve come to expect in anime productions.

Due to the popularity of Astro Boy in Japan, other productions began to mimic the style. Throughout the 1970s/80s, Anime gained popularity with series like Mobile Suit Gundam and Dragon Ball. The 1990s saw the global rise of anime, with iconic series like Sailor Moon, Pokémon, and Neon Genesis Evangelion establishing anime as a significant cultural export. 

Why is anime so popular?

Anime is popular across the globe, and there are several reasons why Western audiences have embraced the art form.

• Anime offers a stylistic change to many cartoons and movies audiences grew up with
• Western cartoons and animated films are often aimed at kids, while the more mature stories told through anime engage younger and older fans alike
• There is often a level of artistry in anime that is missing from US animations, which helps create richer, more vibrant worlds
• Anime comes in a range of genres, including fantasy, action, romance, and horror, allowing it to cater to a wider audience

Understanding the anime aesthetic 

Anime is as rich and varied as any other art form, and different creators will have their own stylistic traits. The best way to understand the anime aesthetic is to watch as much anime as possible.

Anime characters 

The style of anime characters is incredibly distinct but can vary wildly within its genre. In general terms, anime characters are known for their exaggerated features, large eyes, and chunky, colorful hair. Clothing is usually highly detailed, blending vibrant, intricate designs with cultural elements.

While Western animation focuses on realism in its characters, anime focuses on emotional depth. The larger-than-life features allow for exaggerated expressions, creating a bigger emotional impact on the audience.

Anime creatures

Fantastical creatures are a common theme in anime, often mixing mythology with magic to create engaging, in-depth characters. Unlike Western animated animals, which are often comedic sidekicks to the human characters, anime creatures can be deeply integrated into the story, with greater significance to the themes.

Anime backgrounds

Backgrounds are extremely important to the overall anime aesthetic, and the attention to detail is often astounding. Many Western animations will reuse background elements between productions, and there are many examples of Disney reusing entire sequences – such as the ballroom scenes from Cinderella and Beauty and the Beast. 

Anime backgrounds are intricately painted (often by hand) and tailored to match the scene’s emotional tone. While Western animation uses a simplified realism when approaching its backgrounds, anime focuses more on feeling, creating otherworldly landscapes that emphasize the story’s themes.

How to include anime in your creative process

Anime artists can spend years developing the skills they need to produce intricate and detailed animations. For example, Akihiko Yamashita’s Howl’s Moving Castle took over 100 animators two years to create. If you don’t have the patience for that, check out these handy, downloadable assets to help you introduce the anime aesthetic into your work.

Stock assets

Artlist has a range of royalty-free anime stock clips you can download for your projects. From emotive characters to stunning background elements, action shots to general life sequences, these elements are ideal for music videos, social media posts, or adding a fun animated element to your vlogs.

Templates

If you’re looking to add some dynamic effects or animated elements to your projects, then Artlist’s anime templates can help you build a library of drag-and-drop effects. The downloadable packs include titles, explosions, smoke, and action lines that are ideal for use in slideshows, promo videos, and YouTube content.

Sounds

Sound effects play a massive role in anime, with the SFX often being as whimsical and stylized as the characters. From wobbly bongs to laser fire, and even character vocals, the Artlist anime sound effects collection is ideal for adding a sense of adventure to your projects.

Music

Music is integral to any video, and in anime, it plays a massive part in building the emotional context of the story. Artlist is proud to work with some incredible international musicians to create a library of anime-style tracks, from moody cinematic scores to electro-pop.

Create your own anime

Over the last 40 years, the world has increasingly embraced anime for its beautiful, stylistic artwork and emotive storytelling. Anime is becoming a part of a filmmaker’s toolkit, taking inspiration from the format’s rich culture and unique history. Unlike many other trends that eventually fade, the popularity of anime proves it’s here to stay, and with Artlist’s huge collection, it’s never been easier to create your own anime-style videos.

*This article’s cover image was inspired by footage from the Anime Loops story by David Octane

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A journey into film

Earlier this year, filmmaker Will Niava teamed up with Artlist for a unique challenge: to create a short film in one day. The Montreal-based, Ivory Coast-born, and Ghana-raised creative had a wealth of experience to draw on, having started his filmmaking journey at the age of 15. Since then, Will has become known as a raw and visceral storyteller, with his work rooted in West Africa, the US, and Canada. 

Will is best known for his 2020 short film Zoo, which explores the link between race and authority through the story of a troubled man who encounters three outcasts. This film featured in hundreds of film festivals and won over twenty awards, including a spot in the prestigious Criterion Collection. 

Since then, Will has worked on award-winning TV series, music videos, and commercials and partnered with Artlist since 2020. The team approached him after coming across Zoo, and he soon became one of the most popular contributors thanks to his provocative and cinematic visuals, so when Artlist challenged Will to make a short film in one day, we knew just how compelling it would be. 

Influences and education

Growing up between the Ivory Coast and Ghana massively informed Will’s outlook and influences. He grew up speaking French as a first language, and relocated to Ghana when he was four years old after civil war broke out. 

“These are the best African countries in terms of food and soccer, but not necessarily a place that encourages the arts,” Will says. “But I was very happy that my parents believed in us and encouraged us to do what we love and make sure there’s a business aspect to it.”

Will would spend his days playing soccer and his evenings watching films. “That’s how I learned English,” he says. “I was fascinated by these movies — I really liked Scorsese’s films and everything with Robert De Niro. I thought I might be an actor so I started acting in plays.”

During rehearsals, he became increasingly interested in directing. “Our director was this British woman, and it was very interesting how she made us get to the places we needed to get. I fell in love with how she communicated to us, got her ideas out, and collaborated with us to bring the story together,” says Will.

After that, Will expanded his taste, watching films from all over the world with a particular interest in French New Wave. “I wanted to elevate cinema in Africa at the time,” he says. “The Nigerian or Ghanaian films were very low quality, shot in a week or so, and I just didn’t want that to be our image internationally.” 

He spent years filming short films, music videos, and projects with his friends and family, but when he applied for film school in Ghana, they rejected him — because they thought he was too advanced for their curriculum. So he applied for a scholarship at Concordia University in Montreal and was one of thousands of applicants to win it.

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From music videos to award-winning films

By his second year at Concordia, Will was itching to get out into the world as a filmmaker. “So I started doing a bunch of free stuff to practice and find my voice and the thing that makes me unique,” he says. “So I explored and expanded, I did a bunch of hip hop and R ’n’ B music videos that are still my style, that kind of dynamic vibe, and I always included a narrative element.”

Will’s early film projects include a short film called Playground Warfare which depicts young adults play fighting with real artillery sounds dubbed over, and Bring Some Balls, a similar concept that shows kids and teens playing ball in Ghana. Both films shine with attitude and share themes of youthful joy and kinship. Will’s first music video was for a Canadian artist called ​​MISTA KO for his song “SÉSÉ SÉKO” shot in 2013, and a video for Mawuli for a track called “I AM MAW.” 

And after that, doors started to open. “I love music, and I think it was always an entry into this world,” he says. “Musical artists always need visuals and don’t always have people who can help that journey.” He started working with bigger and bigger artists, steadily growing his portfolio until global superstars were getting in touch and asking him to shoot their videos.

“I got to make a documentary about Billie Eilish for an Amazon live concert, shot in music video style,” he says. “I’ve done some projects with Apple Music and a series for MTV. But my most important project to date is still Zoo.”

Zoo was originally supposed to be a music video, but Will was so keen to change it up that he persuaded the producers to switch it into a short film. “Zoo changed my life, and that’s when I got discovered for real,” he says. The film expands on the concept of police brutality and brotherhood, and how a misunderstanding can spiral into disaster. The movie came out just before George Floyd was killed, and it caught a wave of support as a result. 

“It was in the Criterion Collection for three years, I think it’s still in the archives, and for me, that is huge,” he says. “As a film geek that is the holy grail of film banks. They restore legendary films, and they have collections of the greatest films of all time, so for my very first short film to end up there was nothing short of insane.”

Artlist and the short film challenge

Will and Artlist teamed up in 2020 after the team came across Zoo. Will had been using Artlist for a while, so was already familiar with the company, and the Artlist team were fans of his compelling narrative storytelling, rooted in themes of identity. Needless to say, they’ve become an unstoppable partnership. 

“They came at a time where I really needed the funds and support,” Will says. “The first footage I really put my stamp on was called Sisters in the Park,” Will says. “I still get a bunch of people sending me videos of that because they edited it and want to tag me and make me part of their collaboration.”

Last year, Will was on the phone with Lauryn Hill, planning a collaboration, when she asked her assistant to pull up some videos that she’d like Will to take inspiration from. “That was the video,” Will laughs. “I told her that’s my footage. And that was a really special moment for me. Incredible — the legendary Lauryn Hill.”

In his film work, Will loves to explore misunderstandings, language barriers, and marginalized characters. “Specifically Africans,” he says. “I like putting people in places they seem like they don’t belong, and they have to find some kind of belonging, like fish out of water stories.” 

And that’s why Artlist selected Will to launch the one-day short film project. His unique approach to storytelling can inspire fellow video creators by showing just how much can be achieved in a short time and challenging them to do the same.

Filmed in LA, Will wrote the script, shot, and directed the film within just three hours. His aim was to showcase narrative storytelling alongside emotive cinematography with limited time and resources, something he’d learned from his days shooting music videos at the beginning of his career.

“I’ve gotten used to having time with the actors beforehand to brief them on what we’re doing, and set up a crew with lights to make things beautiful,” he says. “So it was a challenge. It took me back to my grad school days, when the most important thing was getting the emotion right and making sure the delivery is immaculate.”

The short film depicts the story of an overworked, exhausted father who picks up his child from school. He turns around and hallucinates that his son isn’t there, panics and starts hunting all over the neighborhood, until he turns around to see his son is still asleep in the back seat. 

“I just wanted to create a bit of chaos, something that felt like an emotional loss, with something gained at the end,” Will says. “I wanted to create drama in a small moment, something that could happen in a very simple scene.”

Will curated a playlist from the Artlist catalog for the video that includes a wide range of artists and genres that can be used to breathe fresh life into the footage. Here are just a few of the songs he selected.

Some of the clips from this short film are available in the Artlist catalog for you to make your own, and give new meaning to a project that is deeply personal for Will. His father recently passed, so creating a scene with a father and son felt cathartic in many ways, and Will hopes this short film will inspire other creators to push their creative limits.

“I feel what stops people today is waiting for that perfect moment, but there is no perfect moment,” Will says. “You should just start. Take the time to develop something you feel proud of, but don’t spend an eternity on it. The best way to succeed is to do it over and over and over again.”

Looking to the future

Although he’s already achieved so much, Will has only just begun. He has a ton more projects lined up and many dreams yet to be fulfilled. “I’m working on a very important project called Jazz Inferno,” he says. “We shot 90% of it in the Ivory Coast and it’s my last short film before I turn to feature films. It has a big budget, and it tells a story that’s close to home and I think that’s what film is — an outlet to express the feelings you can’t say out loud. I needed to process my grief and this film has done that for me.”

To download and use Will Niava’s footage and song selections in your videos, royalty-free, join Artlist today.

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