I’m an avid user of Snapchat. One of my favourite functions of the app is the story, which is a essentially a video diary of sorts. Snapchat is essentially a video/photo messaging app, where people use a lot for sharing funny or special moments with each other. If you message with a snap, the person you’ve sent it to can only see it for the duration of the snap. However, if you add it to your Story, friends can see it for 24 hours. Thus, the story mode I feel is a more effective platform for our genre of a travel/video diary hybrid.

The sketch I did was on the day of my cousin’s wedding which took place at Mt Dandenong. However, all the way over there, there was no reception whatsover, and thus I couldn’t add any snaps to my Story after my first three which I had already shot earlier in the day. Two of these were stills, while the last shot was a video, of the car travelling through Mt Dandenong.

The thing that is interesting about Snapchat is that is technically a narrative, but the way your snaps look and feel can be jarring, which again adds more to the concept of a video diary. It takes the best things you see in the day and highlights them for your friends. I can definitely also seeing it applied to something like a travel video. Even the Snapchat team themselves update a story based around a location or event, grabbing snaps from different people and compiling them together.