My Week in a Minute was an early Roberts London experiment in turning everyday phone photographs into a short film. Published on 10 August 2014, this first social-media vlog mixes jewellery work, personal snapshots and time out in London. Its running time is just over a minute.

The idea was simple: gather images already shared on Twitter, Instagram and Facebook, then preserve them together on YouTube. Instead of deleting the photographs from my phone, I could use them to tell the story of a week or another short period.

My Week in a Minute: trying social media

In the narration, I explain that social media had not previously been much of a habit, apart from watching YouTube. Friends still arranged to meet by calling one another and heading to the pub. Starting a business and launching a website gave those online platforms a practical purpose.

The film introduces itself through blue title cards and a sequence of personal photographs. An outdoor self-portrait and an exercise snapshot sit alongside pictures from the working day. That mixture is the point: a small record of life around the business.

Jewellery work on the bench

The workshop images give this first episode its strongest visual thread. Coin cufflinks appear on a wooden surface, followed later by metal strips and close views of stamped marks. The camera moves between finished-looking pieces and workbench details.

These are glimpses of the work rather than a making tutorial. The photographs show surfaces, shapes and marks, without explaining every stage of production. Together, they place the jeweller’s bench at the centre of the week.

A bent metal clip appears beside the marked strips. Then a group of oval metal components continues the sequence. The close views preserve details that might otherwise have remained scattered across separate social posts.

From work to London life

The closing images move away from the bench into an evening interior and outdoor tables. They sit beside the film’s light-hearted title card about trying to be healthy. The result is a quick contrast between work, exercise and going out.

The voiceover also explains the appeal of this format: it offered a way to make regular vlogs without the daunting prospect of talking to a camera in public. A collection of phone images could become a short introduction to what followers would find on the social accounts.

Watch the first social-media vlog

This archive entry preserves the first episode and its original 2014 context. For another early phone-filmmaking experiment, see the London coffee walk filmed with Hyperlapse.