Amelie Videoteenage -

The highs and lows of high school social circles.

Use a grainy "film" or "VHS" overlay with slightly desaturated colors to hit that specific teenage nostalgia vibe. amelie videoteenage

Her friends thought it was weird. At parties, she’d hold the camcorder like a third eye, recording the smoke from a cigarette curling toward a ceiling fan, or the split second of silence between two songs. “Put that down, Amelie,” they’d laugh. “You’re not a filmmaker.” She never said she was. She was an archivist of the almost-nothing. The highs and lows of high school social circles