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These days, Instagram and TikTok users have started to find themselves faced with an ever-increasing number of videos with great visual impact, but still alike in some ways: clips with extreme backlight effects, in which the subjects are immortalized in low light with starry skies and surreal sunsets as the background for them. The films are not the result of the photographic skills of those who hold the smartphone, or at least not only: doing most of the work is Aurora fugitive, a video filter present on Instagram that depopulates precisely because of the results that he can get.

The aesthetic of the posted videos betrays the common provenance, even just because of the song blaring in the background. In fact, the name of the filter was not chosen at random by its author: Flee is the name of a 2015 song by Norwegian singer Aurora, and the playback of the track is encoded in the filter. Runaway Aurora is used from Instagram stories and plans to shoot the desired subjects as in a common video filter on Instagram, or by holding down the record button: the capture starts normally, but the notes of the song mark the appearance of the backlight effect in some very specific moments, in which the protagonists usually decide to put themselves in scenographic poses.

Simply put, you can't use the graphic effect without the resulting video playing along with the song. Choosing another musical combination in post would break the synchronization between the appearance of the effect and the progression of the audio, which is why most users do not even attempt a similar operation. The result is also suggestive, so much so that the filter – born on Instagram by digital creator Renald Maulana Fadli – is also causing a sensation on the video-sharing platform TikTok, where it has already totaled around 15o million views.

Where is it and how to use the Runaway Aurora filter

The filter can be found by pointing the browser to this address from the smartphone and opening the link with the Instagram app. To get the best effect, in addition to synchronizing in time with the music playing, it's ideal to be shot against the light or have a good source of light behind you – like the sky or an open window. In fact, the filter calculates the contrasts between lights and shadows in the image to transform into silhouettes everything that the camera perceives below a certain brightness threshold, and replaces the potions of well-lit images with a sky among those present in its database. Once the video is obtained, those who wish to use the effect on TikTok can simply export it through Instagram's Save feature and upload it to the opposite video sharing platform.

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