Instant photo comes alive
An engagement or wedding promo. An instant print develops on a warm table while your names write themselves on its border, then the photo comes alive.

What Vidova will do
Make a 13-second, 9:16 engagement announcement. An instant photo of us develops on a table, then starts moving, and the camera pushes into it until our video fills the screen. Footage: I attach a close-up of the ring box opening, a blurred shot of a wooden table with nothing in focus, a steady shot of us holding each other at sunset as silhouettes, and the proposal by a campfire. Hook, 0 to 1.9 seconds: The ring box opens on the ring, pushing in slowly. The print, 1.9 to 7.4 seconds: An instant print with the proportions of an Instax Mini slides onto the warm table from the top of the frame, as if it came out of the camera, and stops at a 4-degree tilt. Make it a real object: off-white paper, a soft shadow on the table, an embossed edge round the picture, and a gloss band that catches the light from the top left. The picture develops like real instant film over 2.8 seconds: an even blue-grey murk, then the dark shapes come through, then a cool grey picture, then the colour, unevenly and from the bottom first. "Emma & Noah" writes itself on the wide bottom border in navy Caveat ink. Hold the photo on one frame while it develops. Hero moment: At 5.1 seconds the photo starts moving. At 5.8 seconds the camera pushes into it and straightens it, and at 7.4 seconds the moving picture fills the frame on the swell of the music, with a soft reverse swell and a low hit on that frame. Our sunset then plays on full frame, still creeping in, until 8.8 seconds. Ending, 8.8 to 13.4 seconds: The proposal by the campfire. At 11.6 seconds "She said yes." writes itself on in large warm-white Caveat handwriting in the dark top third, with a soft shadow, and fades with the last frame. Sound: A romantic piano and strings piece, faded in over 0.4 seconds and out over the last second, starting so a quiet dip carries the push and its swell lands at 7.4 seconds. A soft click as the box opens and a vintage camera shutter as the print slides in. Nothing else.


