Options for vintage- looking filming

In this blog post I will be looking at options available for creating vintage looking film. After watching a series of Lana's music videos, it became apparent Lana enjoys featuring old film in her videos, to support her vintage styling options. Her first music video, Video Games, was edited by herself and had a low budget. It featured historical old film intermissions, and clips of vintage Disney, giving the video a 'conceptual' feel. As her circumstances are very similiar to that of mine, doing this project, I looked into my available options for using old film.

Using an app
Lana is consistent in styling across media platforms, her Instagram posts often feature old looking videos - of her lip syncing. After some research, I discovered a 'Sweet' article, that informed me Lana uses the app '8mm Vintage Camera' to film her videos:

A screenshot from the
Snapchat story article

The app itself is very professional -it was used in the Oscar winning film "Searching for Sugar man". It allows 4K HD recording and has a range of effects that can be applied to the footage.

If I used this option, I would film a variety of subjects - which would be inspired by Lana's, and use them between the longer lip syncing shots.









Applying a vintage filter when editing
An alternate option is to look at filming solely on my camera, and applying features of a editing suite  onto my footage. I discovered a step by step tutorial for making vintage looking film on iMovie, by applying multiple effects and adding filters. I noted the key points below:

• The Aged Film effect can be applied to the footage via the clip inspector interface
• Vintage film cameras were hand cranked, which caused the film to play back faster. This effect can be replicated by typing 120% into the inspectors speed box
• The colour tones can also be retouched. For washed out shadows adjust the contrast to -44%, for faded colours drop the saturation down to 79%
• Lastly, the edges of the video can be softened by applying the Romantic effect in the inspector. There is now two effects layered onto the footage.