Film2026
Bananada 2026
Promo reel for the festival that came back after seven years
Bananada returned to Goiânia after seven years, and the video had to go live with the festival already under way. Sound is what organised the cut: the opening runs with no music at all, Samir handing out banana candy at a traffic light, and the track only breaks in on "but not this one here". From there, every change of music marks a change of place, from the bars downtown to the Oscar Niemeyer. Delivered in 9:16 for Instagram, with animated titles and artist cards.
Process
The cut
The script arrived as a table, scene by scene, and the raw material held almost three minutes of street interviews. The work was finding where the video breathes: opening with no music at all, so the rock lands on the turn of the line, and saving the music changes for the changes of place.
Two things fell away. The audio captured at the show, which the script asked to bring up in the final block, was clipping and was replaced with a library track. And the clip for one of the venues did not exist, because its facade was unlit on the night of the shoot, so the mention left the cut rather than becoming generic footage.
One thing went in against the script: Samir's question to the crowd appears twice, not once. Repeated mid-block, it resets the rhythm before the last run of answers.
Titles
Venue and artist names come in as yellow uppercase cards, one single style from start to finish, with a side wipe that follows the beat. Photos of the artists mentioned appear as polaroids, taped at the corners, with a slight overshoot on entry.
All of it was generated as files with an alpha channel, ready to drop onto the timeline with no manual animation. That is what made it possible to standardise dozens of cards and still adjust the whole kit when the client asked for a variation.