How did you author the photo you recorded for upload to Instagram?
This video was taken in a restroom within Crown Towers. Initially, I was just going to take a photo of the door but found that the physical space was way too small for me to grab a photo of the entire door, so I thought a video would be a better route to take to accurately depict the functionality of it. I recorded the video in one go (because it was a public restroom and people were trying to get out). I utilised the rear facing camera and stood stationary as I had my friend walk through the door.
How did you publish the photo you recorded for upload to Instagram?
I trimmed the video as it had a shaky start, utilised the filter ‘Moon’ because a black and white filter never fails to make something look way better than what it actually is. The affordances of Instagram allows me to choose a cover for the video and I chose a cover that was not blurry and clearly depicted that my friend was walking through a door. Similar to the first post, I included a location stamp, week it was taken in, attempts it took to take the video successfully and a humorous comment (attempted). I muted the video as I plan to not have sound on any future posts. I published the video to a total of a whopping 2 followers (students undertaking the same course). The affordances of Instagram “allows you to capture, edit, and publish photos, view photos of your friends, discover other photos through search, interact with them (like comment, repost, post to other networks), enter into conversations with photo authors and others who left comments, create photo collections, change their order” (Manovich, 2016). This rings true as friends who are doing the same course as me are able to follow my profile, collaborate and comment etc.
How did you distribute the photo you published on Instagram to other social media services?
Since I do not own a Twitter account, I decided to grab a web URL link to the video and share it across to my friends by manually sending the link through to group inboxes I am apart of on the Messenger app.
References
Manovich, Lev. Instagram and the Contemporary Image. University of San Diego, 2016. http://manovich.net/index.php/projects/instagram-and-contemporary-image