Memories reel

Make a 24-second, 9:16 memories reel from my family photos and phone clips. Open on the most emotional moving clip with its real sound, cut the photos in on the beats as quick glances between the clips, let the pace rise to the strongest moment, and end on one photo that holds. Footage: I attach my photos and clips in any shape. Crop a photo of another shape toward the faces so it fills the frame, and show a horizontal clip whole over a light blurred copy of itself. No dark bands. Use my order when I give one, and the clip I name as the peak. Rhythm: Every shot starts on a beat. Clips hold 2 to 4.5 seconds and keep their real sound at full level, such as a laugh, a voice or the sea, while the music ducks to 30 percent under them. Photos hold about 1.1 seconds, a little longer in the first third, with a soft camera shutter at 20 percent on each photo cut. Most photos creep in 2.5 percent. Four or five of them, such as a portrait of two people, get a real push of 8 percent toward the faces. Never more than four cut photos in a row. Hero moment: About two thirds in, the peak plays the moment the whole reel is about. The opening clip can come back here, later in the clip. Rush in at about 1.5 times speed, slow the moment itself to a quarter speed with AI smoothing, then return to real speed, with a slow 5 percent push and the clip's own sound kept. After it, the closer holds about 1.5 seconds with a push. Words: Only when I give words. Use one line of two or three words in Fraunces 500 at 104 pixels, lower case, in cream (#fff6ea), with one word in an accent colour from the footage, and a date or a place under it in Montserrat. It sits left-aligned in the top third on a soft dark scrim, clear of the faces, over the opening clip or over the closer. Each word blurs in. Look: One warm film grade on every shot with fine grain. Trim the exposure of any shot that is brighter or darker than its neighbours, so nothing jumps. Music and ending: Use a warm acoustic or soft pop track at 90 to 120 BPM with a quiet start and a lift in the middle, no hard drop. Start it on a downbeat at 75 percent, so its lift falls near the peak. The music fades over the last second and the picture fades to warm paper (#f3e8d8) over the last 0.5 seconds. No whooshes or risers.