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.

My brothers birthday

I created a video using Vegas Pro 18 for my brother’s birthday. He loves the 80s and I created my very own 80’s effect based on effects I had seen on 80’s TV shows. I wanted it to have a very retro feel.

Here are snippets from the video that I created. The beginning bit was my favourite part of it as it was the first time I could be creative with a video as I was allowed outside to film and it was an 80s TV theme intro.