How did you author video you recorded for upload to Instagram?
I decided to record a video of me using the Sansui AU-2900 amplifier with the BIC America speakers to compliment the photo of the amplifier. I did a little montage, filmed on my Google Pixel 2, of me pluging the aux cord into my laptop, turning the amplifier on, turning up the volume, then pressing play on a song in Spotify. I broke the video into different shots by using the ‘start-stop touch’ feature built into the Instagram app. I did think about filming the video on my camera app but decided against it as the ‘start-stop touch’ feature affords filming and stitching together videos. If I shot it on the camera app I would then have to use a software to try and edit all the clips together, however the ‘start-stop touch’ feature allows for the recording and editing to be done almost seamlessly. It does this by recording when you hold down the shutter, then stops recording when you release it before recording the next shot when you hold the shutter again. I left the audio on and didn’t include any filters as I thought they were unnecessary for it and didn’t add any value.
How did you publish video you recorded for upload to Instagram?
Although the ‘start-stop touch’ feature was fairly easy to use, I did have to retake a couple of shots and start the entire process again as I made a few mistakes whilst still getting the familiar with it. I recorded a shot, but didn’t like it so I deleted it, before recording the next shot. However I didn’t realise you had to press the delete button twice for it to delete a shot so upon review before posting, I rewatched the completed sequence and realised my mistake. I then had to restart the entire video as once completed you can’t choose which shots you want to keep or delete, it has to be shot in sequence. This made the ‘start-stop touch’ feature unfavourably noticeable.
Before uploading, I captioned the video “The Sansui AU-2900 with the BIC America speakers in action!” along with a speaker emoji and a milk bottle emoji. I also added the hashtags #speakers #music #pourthemilk, which is the name of the song playing (hence the milk bottle emoji). I also added the location “Deep-House-Lovers”. Although not the actual location, it compliments the video as “deep house” is the genre of the music playing.
How did you distribute video you published on Instagram to other social media services?
The hashtags #speakers #music and #pourthemilk, help with distribution as when people are to search for those hashtags they would find my video as well as the location tag. I also uploaded the video to Twitter like the last photo. However, this time I did it from the Instagram app by turning on the “Share to Twitter” option. This automatically uploads the video to Twitter at the same time as Instagram. Although this can be useful, it doesn’t actually upload the video to Twitter, rather it just uploads the caption with a link to the Instagram video. This more-or-less renders the feature useless as users on Twitter are more likely to scroll past the post instead of clicking on the link as it means they have to leave Twitter. I know this is my logic when I see posts like these so I assume others do the same. I also uploaded the video to Tik Tok as short form video content is what Tik Tok is known for so the nature of the video really fits that network.