Synopsis: The last payphone in the city reflects curiously on its decline from essential urban lifeline to forgotten corner fixture, wondering why people now carry glowing screens instead of waiting by their side for important calls. Through memories of anxious conversations and real plans made decades ago, the phone questions whether human connection has truly changed or if it’s just hiding somewhere. Told from the pay phone’s first-person perspective. He is curious, puzzled, and quietly bewildered and is shown through contemplative voice over narration.
Media Assets/ Software: I used mostly Canva pro media assets for the making of this video as well as used Canva video editor to construct the final product. None of the content used was originally derived from myself and the only slight changes made to any of the content was with the final bit of audio to which reverb and distortion was added. I wanted to use moving images this time around and am happy with the results. Video was exported at 1080p and then uploaded to YouTube.
Citations:
Video:
- Woman in mask speaking on telephone on street by danr13 is licensed under Canva Pro Content License
- Businesswoman walking while using smart phone in City by tawattiw is licensed under Canva Pro Content License
- Fun at beach with friends by andjic is licensed under Canva Pro Content License
- Businesswoman walking down the street using her cell phone by Gerardo Huitrón is licensed under Canva Pro Content License
- an unrecognizable girl ending a call hanging up the phone the woman puts down the telephone receiver in a public phonebox putting down the payphone by blackboxguild is licensed under Canva Pro Content License
- out of focus shot of a person scrolling through social media on their phone by blackboxguild is licensed under Canva Pro Content License
- old telephone booth in downtown by blackboxguild is licensed under Canva Pro Content License
- close up of a vintage telephone booth by blackboxguild is licensed under Canva Pro Content License
- old tech payphone booth in downtown by blackboxguild is licensed under Canva Pro Content License
- old telephone booth in the city by blackboxguild is licensed under Canva Pro Content License
- old telephone box in downtown by blackboxguild is licensed under Canva Pro Content License
- close up of an old telephone box by blackboxguild is licensed under Canva Pro Content License
- confident adult bearded businessman in suit walking near modern business office building holding smartphone in hands man entrepreneur investor seo or manager using read a mobile phone outside by blackboxguild is licensed under Canva Pro Content License
- close up of cell hands with cell phone gardener with cell phone by blackboxguild is licensed under Canva Pro Content License
- old vintage payphone telephone booth 4k by blackboxguild is licensed under Canva Pro Content License
- Girls Have fun Traveling by jmg-visuals is licensed under Canva Pro Content License
- Broken payphone swinging wire at blurred evening city closeup. Telephone hanging by Stockbusters is licensed under Canva Pro Content License
- Friends at home using smart phones social media by az-elements is licensed under Canva Pro Content License
- Japanese-women by Erwin de Boer is licensed under Canva Pro Content License
- Payphone. Chania, Crete, Greece by MADDRAT is licensed under Canva Pro Content License
- Checking in With Home by SolStock is licensed under Canva Pro Content License
- Summer camp kids outside together by FatCamera is licensed under Canva Pro Content License
- Antique arcade archetypal by Lain Lee is licensed under CC0 1.0
- Group Of Children and Adults On Phones by cottonbro studio is licensed under CC0 1.0
Audio:
- Telephone Dial Tone by Epidemic Sound is licensed under Canva Pro Content License
- Pay Phone Insert 4 by Epidemic Sound is licensed under Canva Pro Content License
- Pay Phone Dial 2 by Epidemic Sound is licensed under Canva Pro Content License
- Pay Phone Put Down 4 by Epidemic Sound is licensed under Canva Pro Content License
- The Unfolding by So Vea is licensed under Canva Pro Content License
- Momentum by Pablo Suarez is licensed under Canva Pro Content License
- Dangerous Beauty by Farrell Wooten is licensed under Canva Pro Content License
- Last Day Calling by Lalo Brickman is licensed under Canva Pro Content License
- There’s Still You and Me by Miles Avida is licensed under Canva Pro Content License
- phone sounds.wav by FreqMan is licensed under CC BY 4.0
Narration:
- “My Last Call”, generated with ElevenLabs.io, AI voice by Ash
