How did you author the photo or video you recorded for upload to instagram? This video was recorded on my iphone 5s with the rear facing camera so that I could watch how I was framing the video when recording. I had to move around a few times and look at the phone so that I could get both the sliding door in the shot as well as the colourful windows also. The filter I decided to use for this one was “Juno” was because there was more than one colour scheme involved in the window I wanted to ensure they all looked nice and were bright and interesting to see. The square format was a little bit more challenging as I had to decide whether or not I wanted to have the two guys walking past the window be the main focus or to have the sliding door be the main focus. In the end I chose the two guys walking as I felt it was an interesting shot to see and the sliding door was still noticeable and satisfied the brief of the assignment which was to record a door.
I didn’t use any brightness adjustments as I wanted to keep the colours really vibrant, plus I felt you could see everything in the foreground and background pretty easily. I only recorded one shot for this one as the two guys in the background were random strangers who just decided to walk across to my luck and so I wasn’t able to recreate the shot any more times. There was also no deleting any clips or shortening of the filming time. The audio wasn’t muted as I felt it sounded a bit odd to have no background noise at all and I decided to leave it in.
How did you publish the photo or video you recorded for upload to instagram?
As I took only one video the curation process was more about what filter I would use and what the caption/ hashtags would be. I decided as it would be the last official video and post to do something a little left of centre. In stead of the continuing the blue theme I wanted to finish off with a colours theme, replicating this with colourful emoji’s and the caption🚪 #6 “Colours Theme”📗📕📘📒 the key to a good door is how easy it is to open #rainbow#pushorpull #staytunedforyellow
This caption wasn’t so much as a pun but rather wordplay and a reference to one of the readings we had looked at regarding affordances through the example of a door. Ultimately if the design of something does not make it easy and simple to use, the designer has pretty much failed in their work. I left the location unknown to be consistent with the other posts and to focus the attention on the video itself.
How did you distribute the photo or video you published on instagram to other social media services?
For the twitter post I experimented with the concept of not giving any real info about the instagram page, instead just leaving the caption and the link to the instagram. Having the emoji’s for the caption I think made it look cooler and might have made the user want to see what the tweet is actually about.
For the tumblr page however I used the same method as the previous video; linking the instagram page as well as the twitter account and placing the caption in there as well. The hashtag stay tuned for yellow I think makes the users from each social media platform feel some anticipation that a yellow theme could be next in the future and to want to keep interested in the accounts which was a bit of a goal for me.