Cooking Noodles Vine from Troy on Vimeo.

My aim for this this video was to see what other methods I can use to create an instructional video and how compact the video could be made without losing its effectiveness. By using the online web service, Vine, I feel I have managed to achieve both aims successfully. Using Vine forced me to adopt a different way of thinking; what needed to be captured in the six seconds of footage rather than what would look the best cinematically and how I can show this in as short a time as possible. Each instruction is shown in sequence with no voice over or music present. The audience just gets the visuals and the bare-minimum required to understand and follow the steps. I wanted to see if a quick glance at each shot could still covey the instructions to the simple cooking task. I feel the video is successful in that it is short, quick and to the point. If the instructions were more complex I do not feel that this type of video method would suffice as it does not allow the audience to have a lengthy period of thought.