https://www.instagram.com/p/CA0pWkjH6cv/

How did you author (the photo or video) you recorded for upload to Instagram?

For the media work of the assignment, I want to explore recording via the Instagram app just like how I took the photo. But for the video, I want to record through the story feature of the app. On my main account, I record stories quite often for my followers to see what goes on in my life on a daily basis. The story feature also has many interesting components like filters. The “Tokyo” filter is a black and white one and is used by me to produce this video. When producing the video, it was a cold night and there was moisture on my window. I thought I could record myself drawing something out of the liquid, and I drew an X. The black and white filter helps the X sign to sort of going into the light source at the back, which I found pretty interesting. The thing with the story video is there is no way to edit them with components like brightness, saturation,… which is a constraint but when posting them, there is always an option to further edit. For the video, I kept it defaulted with the “Tokyo” filter.

How did you publish (the photo or video) you recorded for upload to Instagram?

For this video, I just focused on hashtags that are popular and significant, while are still related to the post to see how it would perform. I want to focus on the faded X sign that I drew, so I chose #X along with #window, #nighttime and #winter. All of them are used in millions of posts. As always, the location is set in Melbourne and the caption is “Colder than my X”, which could have many meanings and I thought this could attract some potential users to like the post.

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

I again shared to Tumblr and Twitter but as before, I think the significance of the post would rely on its components on Instagram.