Week 9 – Deceptive Candle Video

How did you author the video you recorded for upload to Instagram?

For this video likewise to the photo it accompanies I captured it using my sisters iPhone 11 and its rear-facing camera. Although I did use Instagram’s sister app Boomerang to record the video so that is a short clip that appears to be looping back and forth. The video only used one clip, but I believe Boomerang works by capturing various single images and compiling them together into one video.

Again, I used the editing options available within Instagram; this time being limited to choosing one of Instagram’s filters rather than being able to adjust the saturation and the tint of  the shadows/highlights. Due to this constraint I chose to use the ‘Lark’ filter at 100% because I wanted to video to match the visual style of its related image and this was the closest I could get without the ability to change the aforementioned individual settings.

Regarding the audio, I don’t know if Boomerang records audio but when I watched the video back I didn’t hear anything. But just to be safe I muted the audio to prevent any unwanted sound.

How did you publish the video you recorded for upload to Instagram?

I retook this video a few times before deciding on one to use, but due to Boomerangs nature the previous discarded attempts were deleted, so I was only left with my finial decision. Going straight from the Boomerang app to being guided into Instagram, I captioned the video “The swift change from a delightful pattern to complete darkness”. For the video, I chose not to include hashtags but instead chose to again make use of the tagging function and tag the brand of the candle.

How did you distribute the video you published on Instagram to other social media services?

This time I remembered Instagram offered cross platform distribution within the posting settings so I took advantage of that. It was as simple as flicking a few switches and logging in to the respective accounts (if you can remember your password that is).

This time when the post was shared to Twitter it was accompanied by the posts original caption as well as a link back to the original post on Instagram. As you can see below. It also traditionally states that the post was made through Instagram rather than from an iPhone or computer browser.

Tumblr also sees a different layout when posting directly from Instagram’s post page rather than using the ‘share to’ option later. The post likewise to twitter features the whole caption from the original post and a link back to the Instagram post.

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