I was doing a lot of travelling in the weeks leading up to the AWA Accolades 2025 deadline, and I was getting very worried that I wasn’t going to be able to have anything done for the contest, so I banged together a very short video in two afternoons just to have an entry to submit.
The audio came from a YouTube short that got linked in Tom Scott’s weekly newsletter sometime in early August that made me laugh quite a bit, so I held onto the link just in case.
I thought for a while about what sources I had handy that included a bunch of scenes with cell phone usage, and landed on My Dress-Up Darling, which my wife and I had just finished watching together.
The video ended up getting a good reaction from the other editors in the Accolades contest, which is about the best I could have hoped for with an 8-second-long rush job. It was too short to send anywhere else, sadly (most contests with Shorts categories still have a 15-second minimum), so that was the only place it ended up playing.
Video – My Dress-Up Darling
Audio – Ben Lapidus – August 5, 2025
Completed October 2025
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