PLAYITA BCS MEXICO-2017: Flying Around A Top Contain With A Cross And His Shadow
About this clip
A young boy in a red jacket flies a kite at Playita BCS Mexico in 2017, the kite shaped like a cross soaring above a sandy hill. The sun casts a long shadow of the child and the cross-shaped kite across the sand, creating a striking silhouette. This home movie captures a moment of childhood play infused with spiritual symbolism, blending faith and innocence in a natural coastal setting. The footage has a nostalgic, cinematic quality, evoking themes of hope, belief, and simple joy. Ideal for documentaries, editorial content, or nostalgic storytelling about religion, childhood, and Mexican beach culture.
Clip Intelligence
- Production use
- Useful for documentary, travel edit, faith-themed story, agency mood reel, or brand film needing an aerial view of a cross on a sandy hill in Playita, Baja California Sur.
- Edit role
- Works as a short opener, transition, or symbolic cutaway, with the cross shadow giving editors a clear visual beat within the 8-second runtime.
- Visual details
- The frames show an overhead drone view of a large cross on a pale sandy hilltop, its long shadow stretching across the ground, with scrubby green vegetation and a few distant structures around the slope and no visible people.
Shot slate
- Resolution
- 3840 × 2160
- Frame rate
- 29.97 fps
- Duration
- 6s
- Codec
- H.264 MP4
- File size
- 45 MB
- Location
- Playita, Baja California Sur, Mexico
- Year filmed
- 2017
- Published
- Oct 2017
Still Frames From This Clip
2 frames exported from the 4K master of this clip, in timeline order. The licensed download is the full-motion master, not these stills.
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