Take some retro filters/effects to your summertime footage for a “Wonder Years” quality.

Photographer and designer Paul Octavious is skilled at video vignettes – this one utilizing a distressed and stuttering film effect that looks like my parents’ home movies. This probable manipulation of DSLR or digital camcorder footage sets aside the current HD obsession in favor accentuating the enduring quality of summer pastimes. Try filming your travels or even hometown discovery with a different angle than ‘the-crisper-the-better’ this summer. Here are some other video effect ideas to try out. This is my idea of refreshment for creativity.

Video Created by Paul Octavious

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Lindsay Clark

Lindsay Clark has spent the last four years circumnavigating the world three times, hoping to learn constantly by throwing herself into difficult and thrilling situations. Currently, she's the media specialist and creative arts teacher at THINK Global School, the world's first global, mobile high school. Lindsay also runs Nomadderwhere.com.

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