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🚪 #3 “Red Theme” 🍿🎒🦀🌹 There is door where this came from #red #pushorpull #rmit
How did you author the photo or video you recorded for upload to instagram?
For this photo I used my iphone 5s again as it was consistent with shooting the previous photo/ video and utilised the rear facing camera as I did not require the front facing camera for a selfie style photo taking. Because of the square camera function in instagram I did have to move around to find a nice angle which I thought would work as a photo in the account. Whilst I knew that if I needed to crop the photo I could later in the editing stages but I tried to be as further back as possible when photographing the door.
I left the flash feature off again as I was very happy with the lighting and having the flash setting wouldn’t have really done a lot I felt. I used the filter “Juno” as I felt it really brought out and accentuated the red. I also brought the brightness up so that people who were looking at the photo on their phones wouldn’t have to bring the brightness up manually in order to see the photo better, plus it would look great on the grid with the other works. Compared to other works that I have done, there was definitely more of a sense or direction and purpose with this post. There was more planning because I was thinking about it as a photo that was connected to the other things I had put on the account.
How did you publish the photo or video you recorded for upload to instagram?
I didn’t record a lot of images before choosing this one to post as I felt as though I would get lost in trying to judge each image too much on which one was the best and had a quicker deciding process if I only had one or two. The curating process was very much about how the image would fit into the instagram square the best and then I would go on to add filters and edit the brightness or another part of the photo. I decided not to add a location to the image as I had not done that with the previous two uploads, but still decided to hint at it through one of the hashtags (#rmit). This was to keep a little bit of mystery about where this door was and to encourage the viewer to click on the hashtag if they wanted to know where RMIT was. I continued with the text caption being a door pun “There is door where this came from”. When using this caption I felt it tied into the door theme but also reminded the viewer to keep following the account as there would be other photos and videos to come which is important in maintaining a follow-ship from a follower.
How did you distribute the photo or video you published on instagram to other social media services?
I uploaded the photo to both twitter and instagram and made sure to include the caption in both platforms that way the distribution was very similar amongst the three services. The hashtags worked well for both Twitter and tumblr as they are quite useful in giving a little bit more context (particularly with the RMIT hashtag). Having the hashtag there also would be beneficial as if a follower hadn’t heard of the uni, they would most likely look it up and find out where RMIT is and be interested in the buildings surrounding the doors and also what the university offers. Although I’m not promoting the campus for money or sponsorship, it is certainly helpful in contributing to some exposure in how the university looks and if it might interest followers who are preparing to look at universities. On the twitter account, I made sure to link the instagram account in order to encourage the audience to go across and follow it for more content. In uploading this 3rd post I felt I needed to better link the other accounts by adding them into my instagram bio so that it was obvious that there were extensions of what was created on the instagram account.
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