Video 1
This was taken after leaving my Tuesday 8:30 am class for Networked Media, whilst travelling to the Swanston St library to do some editing. This is the burrito shop in the courtyard area.
Video 2
This was taken later that day when I was leaving the library to go to study outside and eat some lunch. This is the revolving doors near that same burrito shop in the courtyard.
Authoring
To take the first video, I stood roughly about a meter away from the entrance of the burrito store (which was barely open, and people were quite confused by my presence). I walked a few steps forward to trigger the motion sensors of the door, waited until the door was fully opened and stepped back and recorded as the door closed fully. My hands are a bit shaky, but I tried to keep the door frame around the edges of the square Instagram format my Samsung S9+’s rear camera gave me whilst using the applications camera feature, as with all other posts.
In the second video, the rotating door rotates without a prompt from a human, so I stood about 2 meters away from it, allowing to capture the entrance and exit in the full frame dimensions the application gave to me. I am really happy with this framing, and personally think it looks the best in the still thumbnail version you see before the video autoplays, just like the video before it.
Both videos are edited the same way, with the Inkwell filter being reduced to around 60-80 % to give the moving images a desaturated effect. Furthermore, I kept the original audio from both clips. From there, they are almost ready to post.
Publishing
The first video takes a different approach to giving a title, less literal. “Slow It Down” felt like a more poetic name, reflecting the slow-moving door and how we should all stop and appreciate the little things in life. This was the second video posted to this Instagram and the fourth post overall.
The second video is titled “In Rotation”, which is the name of a rap song by Jay Rock, but also, what the door does in the video, spinning around endlessly in a 360-degree rotation. This is the third video posted to my Assignment 3 Instagram, and the sixth post overall
Both were location tagged at RMIT University before uploading.
Distributing
For the first video, I used the same spacing format and hashtagged it with the classic #doors and #melbourne, and started hashtagging the uni with #rmituniversity. This post, at the time of writing, received 11 views and 11 likes, the most on this account to date, with one nice (and real) comment.
The second post uses the same hashtags and spacing as previously mentioned, but includes some context-specific ones such as #loop to try and bring in new users to engage. However, this is my lowest engagement to date, with the post having only 9 views and 6 likes as of writing this.
Both videos were shared to my personal Twitter and Tumblr accounts, which carries over all hashtags for even more external reach. As of yet, I am unable to see any direct overlap between the application’s users.