https://www.instagram.com/p/ByKnjgdgZt-/

1. How did you author (the video) you recorded for upload to Instagram?

 To author my video this week I decided to experiment with using the ‘start-stop’ touch feature to record multiple shots, using the Instagram video tool on my iPhone 6s plus. Similar to other video uploads, the doors I filmed were fairly well lit so I didn’t need to use flash to record. Using the rear-facing camera I pressed and held down to record each static shot. This took a few retries as I had some shaky recordings, but the multi-clip record allowed me to delete and rerecord these. Additionally, I found that the looping feature of Instagram worked to help these videos flow together well, as the framing and colours of each shot were similar. While authoring I also decided to keep the original audio of each video. To frame each door within the square camera interface, I moved so that they fit within the frame. I also chose a ‘cover’ frame as the preview picture for my video, which was one of the graffitied doors. I was able to achieve the look I wanted by adjusting the Gingham filter slider, and I didn’t alter much else before publishing. I found that one of the advantages of recording within the Instagram interface is that it allows you to easily string together several clips, which is something I would usually do in an external mobile app like Premiere Rush or iMovie when creating video Instagram content which saved me some time.

2. How did you publish (the video) you recorded for upload to Instagram?

I published the video to my Instagram after applying a filter, selecting a cover frame and preparing my caption. As the video depicted fire doors, I included a short caption that reflected on their purpose and how I came to record them. I also added the same group of hashtags used on my previous uploads to the caption (#door, #video, #melbourne etc.), adding a few new descriptors like #graffiti and #emergency. I also left the video settings to play the footage immediately and on repeat.

3. How did you distribute (the video) you published on Instagram to other social media services?

 I am continuing to distribute my posts on both my Twitter and Tumblr accounts, cross-posting to Twitter with every upload and manually posting my photos and videos to Tumblr alongside tags from the original post. The use of hashtags on several of these platforms has helped me to gain an audience (however small), which demonstrates their usefulness when it comes to distributing content. This post was fairly successful as it gained quite a few likes.