Zach Bloom Media

As a young child, I liked to create short films. Initially, I used my iPod and iMovie to create stop animation movies using Lego figures to depict fun storylines set to music. As an older child, I became part of Henry Jenkins participatory culture; a prosumer, wanting to create content for my own YouTube channel. It was during the first lockdown, when my world shrunk and life went online, that I started creating short films. It combined my love of narrative with love of technology and helped me cope with the isolation. I experimented with various video editing software before settling on Premier Pro. I was self taught, watching YouTube tutorials first on the basics, then on specific skills, such as key framing or colour grading.

Creative Singing Challenge

This was one of my earliest ever attempts at video editing. I used WonderShare Filmora 9 to create this. It was the first ever video editing software that I learnt. It was a great one to start with as it didn’t overwhelm me, it was relatively simple, straightforward software to learn.

I created a lip sync to the song God Save the Queen by the Sex Pistols with some infamous clips going around at the time poking fun at the Government at the time as it suited the song which is an anti establishment song. I saw a clip of someone bungee jumping with a cup of tea and a biscuit which gave me the idea to put a British flag over it and lower the opacity of the British flag so that it became the background.