Date: 2016

This project is about attempting to recap a whole movie in a timeframe under 5:00

(without the movie, losing any of its key plot points or meaning)

Film: Iron man
Montage: Saleem Zwaid

Date: 2016

This project is an expansion up upon the last this time I picked a cinematic epic with a runtime over 3 hours
Trying to condense it and recap it in as little time as possible

(Same thing goes for this one also without losing any plot points or meaning)

Film: Hacksaw Ridge
Montage: Saleem Zwaid

https://youtu.be/rNDOf_Qe6YE?si=UKVtSVQaLeXujC6m

This edit managed to get 133k views and counting.

The use of clever transitions and music synchronization helped it reach its target audience.

Film: John Wick
Montage: Saleem Zwaid

https://youtu.be/xVPlwxjTXqE?si=XmEvG_wKMcL_2xkO

A personal project, trying to combine the universes of two movies together by only using parallel shots within the movies.

Films: John Wick, Atomic Blonde
Montage: Saleem Zwaid

https://youtu.be/zzJt8n-Y1CI?si=J651UzpOfDOpCang

This project is all about the integration of alternate narratives

(basically changing the original story without filming anything new using only montage tools)

It is an attempt to change the fundamentals of a well-known and established character

Tv show: The walking dead
Montage: Saleem Zwaid

https://youtu.be/Q_3QiiZRJVg?si=Qernu0Io9JSr541y

This project is all about recapping 9 years of character progression into the shortest amount of time possible with it still being coherent.

Tv show: The walking dead
Montage: Saleem Zwaid

https://youtu.be/tllmxGYsvgE?si=4mpNPsJwCasuf5Bi

An ambitious project about tying action movie tropes with each other showing how similar they are and exposing clichés, all while trying to achieve that in less that a 1:00 time frame.

Films: John Wick, Atomic blonde, Mission impossible, The accountant
Montage: Saleem Zwaid

https://youtu.be/PGCqlZI_db4?si=nyXnF-FvYb-UJ-mA

This ambitious project is another attempt at combining universities together while also changing the narrative.
While using two vastly different universes,

one of them is real life and shot on film and the other one is in a video game.

Trying to prove that all media tells a story no matter what

Media: The Walking Dead, The Last of us
Montage: Saleem Zwaid

https://youtu.be/abCr7baBafU?si=B0LfS-irLfsTwZ0_

A project about the fundamentals of Arabic music clips.
This video was shot all within one night.

But it took months of planning getting equipment, personnel, and props.

I helped with planning, production, location, and chose the song.

Song: لي بتقصر تنورة
Montage: Saleem Zwaid

https://youtu.be/XaRJwS2rC2I?si=gYiX3GdzqcbOVbXx

This stand up reportage is about subverting the standards and challenging the fundamentals of reportages in general.
To me, they are a very important educational tool, but often I see people get bored of them, so I tried to make it more fun.

Cinematographer: Nika Aksamintava
Montage: Saleem Zwaid

https://youtu.be/ne25JUDl1Jk?si=IJ4kjkGa9fNLI-RL

A project about adapting a book into a trailer before attempting it into a movie or a show.

In my personal opinion, this is a good marketing idea for two things either getting people to buy your book or getting a better pitch to Studios to adapt your book into a movie or show.


Montage: Saleem Zwaid

https://youtu.be/LnojAMj5qmo?si=KcR0nnVoT76WBSR3

An anti racism awareness project, but instead of being boring and feeling like you’re sitting in a lecture, we make it like a social experiment or a prank for it to be entertaining.

Basically the main message is that if you see someone from another culture and they approach you, it doesn’t necessarily mean that they mean you any harm.

Montage: Saleem Zwaid

https://youtu.be/3GiokzFgTMk?si=XJLZKotIX5epreec

A horror short that is more focused on the buildup than the actual jump, scare at the end, basically the fundamentals of buildup 101.

Shot, edited and directed: Saleem Zwaid

https://youtu.be/8lbmu-7SW-E?si=meD8Gv0PpO9i-R5r

Another attempt at making a book trailer, but this time it’s very ambitious, months of planning, preparing and gathering cast, equipment and props.
Shot over the period of a week.

For this project, everyone on the team participated in the montage process, the filming, set up and the directing.

https://youtu.be/c2--swSlJ7o?si=l2FgDZbTiUuj2c6v

A project all about recreating the warm feelings those family programs used to bring us on TV.

Montage: Saleem Zwaid

https://youtu.be/MgQPNRnjaxI?si=4pn6J_HWxLsdRfRY

This project was the idea of going back to that past the basics of advertisement, highlighting, the prestige that old things bring and how things were built to last in the past

Shot, edited and directed: Saleem Zwaid

https://youtu.be/a4yO85VE0xU?si=w5J9vbvNVr7CbkjR

This project is a personal mission for me, to stop the scam of gambling and sports betting
It is an awareness project for society.

Shot, edited and directed: Saleem Zwaid

https://youtube.com/shorts/WrUbw-f22sk?si=_9zhQMI5xIiXW-Co

An ambitious project about bringing back what was good about advertisements.

No more of those Talking Heads that tell you some new place opened or some brand is good just because someone paid them money.

This is more about getting an emotional reaction from the viewer something that will bond them to the brand in their subconscious.

For me, this is the most effective way to advertise to someone, tapping into the subconscious.

Shot, edited and directed: Saleem Zwaid

https://youtube.com/shorts/-_9yTYXuhHE?si=szcJAYFI1bLgnbni

An advertisement for a tourism agency in Saudi Arabia


This was a planned approach to shatter the illusion of the audience, they think Saudi Arabia is empty and uninterest so we compare it to the most interesting country in the eyes of tourists

Shot and edited by: Saleem Zwaid