- How did you author (the photo or video) you recorded for upload to Instagram?
The video I have shown here is of a candle being lit. I chose this design as it is incredibly simple as well as as self explanatory and the design itself has been utilised and rather unchanged for thousands of years.
The video was taken using the rear camera of my iPhone 7, I propped the phone up in a static position on my kitchen bench and held down the record button as the function within the Instagram app whilst I lit the the wick. For the most part I found this to work well however I believe that if I had have recorded the video externally either via another device or using the phones video recording functions it would have allowed me further flexibility with the recording. The square frame format worked very well for this object because of its size and the function I was capturing it fill a good amount of space within the frame drawing the audiences attention to the relevant details. I used minimal lighting within the room and what lighting I did have was set to a warm setting, this was done so that the audience was able to interpret and recognise the object in question before the action of lighting it and then once lit the tones would remain similar, additionally there was no flash used when authoring this video.
Furthermore, I applied the Mayfair filter which gave the footage an additional layer of warmth and I altered the duration of the clip by cutting a segment from the end of the clip in order to tidy up the footage.
- How did you publish (the photo or video) you recorded for upload to Instagram?
This shot was rather easy to execute, I briefly thought about how I was going to do it and was able to capture the footage I intended on the first attempt. I geo-tagged the location where the footage was taken and a caption describing the video. I tried to find where I could set the video yo play automatically but could not see how to alter this therefore the video is configured to play once it has been clicked on same as my previous one.
- How did you distribute (the photo or video) you published on Instagram to other social media services?
This video was uploaded to Instagram and during the posting process I opted to have it linked and distributed to Twitter and Tumbler as well. Interestingly I wanted to actually have it linked to Facebook and Tumbler due to previous experience Twitter not actually showing the visual content only the text, however when I attempted to do this it would not link my Facebook account for some reason and was only left with the options of Tumbler and Twitter. This is something that I will definitely be looking further into to see how I can rectify this moving forward.