Usually, when the two word “film review” comes to mind, one would think of a Hollywood-stylised type of content – but no. In my case, I wanted to showcase a vlogger that I’ve recently just started watching. They are known as CatCreature, and I would say that she isn’t your typical Youtuber. Of course, she follows the line of what we know as ‘vlogging’ but she vlogs in a way that sets her aside from the rest.

The video I’ve chosen is called My Dearest,: 

To give a bit of context, CatCreature expresses her thoughts and feelings from a recent life event that she has experienced.

The angles that she employs in this video are all from a personal perspective, displaying her interactions with people in her life, landscapes. In fact, it’s more so of herself doing both stimulating and mundane activities that happen in our everyday lives.

My favorite part of the whole video is the monologue and what she had to say – even though it was coming from her perspective of her own life, there were moments where I found myself agreeing with what she had to say.

My analysis of this is that it is a simple home video, taken from an iPhone or maybe even from a point and shoot camera, however, it is a heavily edited video with filters over it to either compensate for the lack of well-prepared shots or maybe even for the aesthetics of the overall video.

She also really didn’t go out of her way to film from an incredible angle – it looked like it was filmed from the floor, her study table and was maybe even filmed by her family/friends and of course, herself.

Watching this video, it actually reminded of one of the short films we watched in class by John Mekas, who compiled several, fast, cut-away shots via FILM. It was interesting to see the comparison between the old-school version of editing with the authenticity fo film, versus the digital method of making a video with the same film aesthetics.