Despite wanting to focus on the tutorial and instructional element in this assignment, Troy and I also wanted to breath some life into these videos and we were inspired by our original case study (Katering Show) and so our videos do have some humour to them. This is mostly shown through the use of music (Royalty free) and over dramatic acting on Troy’s behalf. Otherwise we kept to the original prompt of non-linear instructional videos.

This video was made from the pictureboard I had create:

I did originally want to just post a video of the whole image, similarly to how I was going to post the “Kitchen” image. However I decided to change it up a little so that there was a little more texture in the sound and that there was actual movement rather then just a plain video of a single image. The reason for this was that the Kitchen would have links, but this image would be alone and not have any interactivity.

This image is also a little different from my original sketch idea because I added in measurements and instructions instead of just having the images by themselves.

This step consisted of me pouring the cake batter into the tins and putting them into the oven. Despite the simplicity of the video itself, (being 6 seconds in nature) I found it difficult to select the scenes that I wanted to show. The restrictive nature of Vines forced me to consider the crucial parts of this video, as Troy had previously stated in his older vine sketches.

The first video I filmed due to the fact that it would be the most tedious to film. I had to paint the whole picture of the cake cooling on the rack, which took a bit longer because the camera had to be at a certain angle which restricted the way I could move around the canvas.

Editing was also difficult due to the nature of the footage, the whole filming process took around 2 hours, which meant going through the 2 hours of footage and editing it down. It was main due to the size and less of the actual cutting of the footage, however, due to lagging etc.

To create the setting and the first beginning video for our assignment, I just took a picture of my kitchen and edited the two Kate’s into the window. This idea occurred when Troy asked me to give the windows a more interesting twist and I thought back to our original case study. The editing itself was simple, all I had to do was grab an image of the girls off Google Images and paste them into the original Kitchen image.

So after some brainstorming and coffee, both Troy and I have decided upon what we want to create and present for our prototype in our final assignment. Looking back on our previous sketches we really enjoyed all the videos that have been created and we really couldn’t decide on a certain form. In the end we decided to develop a mix media video where we would explore all the different video formats we’ve tried throughout the semester and incorporate those elements into our final prototype.

The prototype would start off at the singular video and then, using the YouTube annotating system we would use it to link the video to the other videos that would depict a step to making the cake (that was the example we had chosen).

If all goes well our prototype will be something like a tree, branching out to different videos from one starting point.

We are interested in the way a tutorial video is communicated in regards to linear step-by-step processes. In our sketches we discovered that it could be useful to produce a linear video in a non-linear structure.

We plan to develop a prototype that explores a tutorial video in a non-linear form.

How can a non-linear structure be used to present a linear tutorial in an interesting way?