By Mareska Chettiar, Co-T/E Life Editor
Shoot, edit, choose music and post. Since her freshman year, senior Maryn Marscher has posted “Day in the Life” videos on her TikTok account, “marynsditlfs.” Marscher has since gained over 200 followers with her weekly posts, with some videos getting over 2,000 views.
“Each clip is a second to three seconds long, or even less than a second,” Marscher said. “They add up to about a minute, and they’re just snippets of my day, starting with me brushing my teeth to then throughout the day with some of my friends in my classes, going out to brunch, and then ending the day with my friends.”
Marscher started creating Day in the Life videos in February 2022, about halfway through her freshman year. She has continued the hobby ever since, posting mostly on Fridays but sometimes on special occasions like Halloween or football games.
“When I started, I was like ‘This is going to be a Friday thing,’” Marscher said. “Fridays have been my favorite day of the week ever since I was little.”
After filming clips throughout the day, Marscher edits them to fit together in Instagram’s Reels feature. She exports the video to TikTok and chooses a song to accompany it. Marscher often features her friends in her videos, either waving in groups or individually as they spend time together. Senior Jasmine Scorzetti has been in almost every video and looks forward to them every week.
“I love them,” Scorzetti said. “They’re just such a good way for us to look back on our experiences throughout high school. The things we might forget, we can remember through the videos. I think they’re a really good way of bringing people together, too.”
Marscher feels that the improvements she has made in creating the videos and the changes she has observed so far — in other people and herself — are important in looking back on previous years.
“I guess (I was) seeing all that’s happened in the past couple of years,” Marscher said. “It’s cool to see how people change and how I’ve changed, with different friendships and even different teachers.”
Scorzetti believes that the videos help create a community, as many students know about them and are excited to participate and enjoy Marscher’s positive personality.
“People, when they see (Marscher), they want to be in her videos,” Scorzetti said. “They want to do stuff because she makes it comfortable for them.”
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