So Aref and I talked and decided to make something involves with less filming techniques and closer to everyday life in Melbourne on Instagram as our Online Video Experiment prototype after our idea of racing cars was denied. We talked a bit more during the weekend, failed to have an agreement, then we met up and talked again on Wednesday after non of us were able to attend the studio on Monday. However, our short meeting (Aref didn’t have enough time) didn’t lead us to a conclusion but got us stuck at the neck of a beer bottle — Aref wants to do fitness and I want to produce an on going narrated documentary about buskers in Melbourne on Instagram.

Inspired by the group that is doing coffee review, and had a thought that Melbourne is famous of its coffee culture, I decided to look into something that’s somehow typical in Melbourne as well. I walked around Melbourne city and looked back the videos I took with Instagram before, I think buskers can be something represents Melbourne as well.

Then I started planing for a structure for the Instagram profile that will be documenting buskers with videos using the typical 3×4 layout. Inspired by RORORUKO, a Japanese fashion model Roruko’s Instagram which uses individual Instagram photos to construct bigger images and link them together.

I used to cut some of my panorama photos into 3 equal sessions make them a whole image rather than only showing a part of it as limited by the squared frame of Instagram.

After reading an article by Kimber Streams about Instagram as a short documentary of real life, I’m proposing a narrated documentary (and on-going documentary that does not necessarily comes to an end) using the 3×4 profile layout to present stories of buskers. Each sequence are make up with 6 videos and these videos are uploaded in a sorted order. Each videos continues the content from the previous videos. A visitor of this profile may view the whole production if starting from the first video and next ones in produced order.

Buskers are chosen by chance and I will acknowledge them in the texts below each videos and link their Instagram profiles (if any). Copies of videos will be sent to them if required.

NOTE: this is not agreed as a prototype.