How did you author (the photo or video) you recorded for upload to Instagram?
The original picture for making this video was taken at my apartment’s parking lot elevator door. there were two versions of it, one is this steady picture, the other is an actual video, showing the elevator door opening. The reason I took this picture and made it become some kind of video is that I am running out of creativities on door portrait, while still wanted to keep something different and special. I thoughted about the boundaries that made video and image different but related media(especially for those posted on Instagram), and came up with this thought. The device used is still my own phone VIVO NEX S, same as most of the previous posts.
The elevator door of the parking lot was chosen to be pictured is because I remembered when I first get into that elevator, the firmness of the whole elevator’s texture truly impressed me. Me, personally as an industrial-style lover, liked this door, and thoughted that this is the time to show it on my Instagram page. 
I ran downstairs, took the photo in several different angles with opened and closed elevator door, and after that, I went back home to had a look of all the pictures, then select one of them to edit in the Snapseed app(developed by Google LLC). For this type of picture’s specific aura I had a preset created by myself named ‘社博朋克’ (see screenshot at right side, it means ‘socialism cyberpunk’, which is inspired by some Chinese science fictions). I applied this filter to the original picture and saved it as a first draft. After the first draft, this seems not satisfied to me, the contrast and the brightness level was not strong enough — hence I used the feature in Snapseed called ‘selective’, which allowed me to adjust brightness, contrast, structure intensity and saturation in a selected area. I made the inside of the doors brighter while darkening the surroundings, and added a little touch of stronger saturation at the right side of the photo (where the orange-red-ish colouring lies). Finally, the photo was finished its editing process, I saved it’s final look and move to the step of make it a small video clip — the next software I reached is ‘Glitch!’ by Luca Grillo, I overlayed both VHS and Glitch effects, then used the S-capture feature of my VIVO NEX S to record the screen: I kept changing the effects in ‘Glitch!’ to make the photo have a moving effects, and the recorded video was saved to my phone’s internal storage automatically.
Well, If you don’t want to use the effect and the filters that everyone seems using on Instagram, to have something different, it surely needs some editing outside the platform.
How did you publish (the photo or video) you recorded for upload to Instagram?
The Glitch! effect was indeed cool, however, the first thing I discovered after actually seeing the post finished and popped up on my Instagram, is that the elevator door is not that clear to be recognized as a door under these moving effects, at least not very clear. I wanted the publish be clear not only for my assignment submission to be legit but also for not making my 20 followers confused — it’s not much, but since most of them are friends and acquaintance I value them — which leads me to post another Instagram post that can be considered as a support material of this video:
Which showing the raw photo took and the edited final look.
These uploads are done in several clicks within the Instagram app, the captions as well are not the part I put many efforts on. For the video, what I did is made the voice prompts of the elevator become more ‘glitchy’ and present them in words, like little seizures in the sound.
How did you distribute (the photo or video) you published on Instagram to other social media services?
For this one, the main distribution was still based on my Facebook page like it always was, the ‘share on Facebook’ button is automatically turned on:
And other than that, I just found one of the great places to share the random posts and pictures while I am still able to say that these posts are representing me, my tastes and standards of making photos and video clips — at the ‘moments’ in WeChat:
It is also the platform for users to share images, texts and videos to express their own thoughts and creations, and it is the type of community that I would like to share things on because WeChat is a social-communication-based platform, in where I know who my followers are and I am happy to show them my works.
