How did you author (the photo or video) you recorded for upload to Instagram?
This video was recorded on Sunday afternoon at Footscray Coles, using my smartphone VIVO NEX S’s rear camera (like in previous posts). In VIVO’s default camera app there is a time-lapse option which allows me to take real-time time-lapse videos without any further editing, I recorded under this function and applied filter called ‘Vivacity’ in the ‘Trim’ option of the phone’s default gallery app, which lightened the colours of the overall video, also I would consider that brighter graphic fit the fast-paced motion of the crowd better.
While I was scrolling down my previous Instagram posts, and finally decided to take this video clip as the last weekly post, I realized my ‘pattern’ of the published things, beyond what I mentioned in the last post on distributing Instagram photos which is about ‘building up online characteristic’, I found out that my authoring, publishing and distributing are all strongly related to my connections: friends, families, lovers. I enjoyed the discussions and chat about our recent published things on Instagram, bring our online activities’ impacts to offline. Hence, I author the things that related to my life, networking with my connections; I publish the things that my acquaintances would found it funnier with our shared knowledge and experiences; I distribute to where my friends and families are (since they allocated on different platforms).
Therefore, in this one I choose to record people going through the open-and-close glass door of Coles, trying to imply that ‘it is the people(users) who brings the platform prosperity’ by emphasising this motion of the crowd in this video. People are networked with each other, so do the people and Instagram.
How did you publish (the photo or video) you recorded for upload to Instagram?
The more Instagram post I made, the more familiar I get with its way of working. This video was mostly done in the authoring stage hence the publish didn’t stress me too much. The Instagram application was built to reduce the effort you put in this publishing stage, I can find the freshly edited video from the top of the gallery, select it, describe what I thought about the video in a straightforward way, mention my boyfriend (he is also the author of the port Arthur photo in week 10) for thanking him supporting me during the ‘on-site’ filming, and use hashtag at last to have some elements that people in Instagram might look into and see my post.
I was not quite interested in using the hashtag from the beginning to now, I can study its features and advantages, knowing that is developed for people who want to be promoted to the public. However, there ARE users like me on Instagram, I’m not aiming to promote myself online (for now), what I valued most is my offline lives, hence the Instagram’s most bold affordance to me is its power to imperceptibly connect online and offline, having effects on people beyond the platform.
How did you distribute (the photo or video) you published on Instagram to other social media services?
Once the ‘share on other platforms’ button of Instagram is turned on, it is always on. Unlike WeChat Moments which is detached from Instagram, Facebook, Twitter and Tumblr are interconnected with Instagram, especially Facebook who is the owner of Instagram services. Other than these three platforms which have the easiest and quickest portal for users to share with, there are also other online communities with other specialities like WeChat Moments (mostly used by Chinese). Considering my situation, I went shared with Facebook, Tumblr and WeChat Moments.
(no idea why the Tumblr one did not show the thumbnail)