Instagram Video and the Death of Fantasy
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Instagram Video and the Death of Fantasy
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#3A wonderful post. Jenna Wortham is writing some of the most thoughtful stuff on how and why we share the photos that we share.
I'm a believer that the market for sharing the mundane moments of life, in a private way with those closest to us, is an untapped opportunity.
Snapchat is only the first to find massive adoption by serving this use case, there will be others.
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#4I've added video support to my Mac Instagram client, InstaDesk, this weekend, and in order to test the feature, I had to browse for videos and play them. So after watching quite a lot of Instagram videos I've to say I think this is an interesting and cool feature. A lot of these videos were beautiful, or interesting, or captured a cool idea. Of course, there were also boring and stupid ones, but in general I found the quality quite high. I'd like to compare this to Vine, but I haven't used Vine in the last couple of months, so I can't really draw a fair comparison.
What I want to say is that even though this is probably just a measure to bug Twitter/Vine I find that the Instagram community does use it in a way that makes it a pretty cool addition.
Though one has to see how this unfolds, whether people will continue to use it. I've created a video too, and on my rather old iPhone4 it required a lot of waiting to get it done.
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#5There is on the fly video transforming too nowadays, though. You can make people look different, a different time of day, etc.. Instagram may not have it yet to the level it does for photos, but it will.
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#6There is on the fly video transforming too nowadays, though. You can make people look different, a different time of day, etc.. Instagram may not have it yet to the level it does for photos, but it will.
I'd say that Instagram has filters to almost the exact same level as it has filters for photos. ("Time of day" may be a little beyond its ken, but that's the case for photos too.)
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#7I shoot a whole lot of pictures of my wife's violin students-- a lot of the world that makes for beautiful and moving still images... leaves a bit to be desired aesthetically when translated into audio and video. :D
That said, I really enjoy the silent, 5-10 animated gif format and I'm sure that as a format the short moving picture will come a long way from where it.
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#8- "shows off versions of yourself that you want to remember"
Is that so bad?
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#9Photos allow you to discriminate which moment in time you want to convey to people. You can take and retake photos until you distill it to the right scene. Dead simple postprocess editing, e.g. filters, allowed you to enhance that even further.
Videos don't work the same way. Trying to distill the zeitgeist into a video is (24FPS * 15sec) times more work. Without a rich set of postprocess editing tools, i.e. what filters did for photos, that are equally dead-simple, the fantasy-aspiration of what instagram did for photos simply isn't there.
Sure, the trailer instagram showed for the introduction of videos had the same emotional and fantasy components in it that filters brought to photos, except they did a crap ton of postprocessing work on it to get it to that stage. Contrast this with when they showcase photos and filters - they must have done little or no work. Unless the app itself can create the level of videos that instagram showcased, instagram video has brought upon itself the death of fantasy.
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#10- "shows off versions of yourself that you want to remember" Is that so bad?
The article is not making a judgement; that was simply leading up to the point of the article:
Video is imperfect. It’s a lot harder to craft a perfect video
In other words, we show off versions of ourselves that are not true-to-life, and it will be much harder to maintain & showcase those facades when the medium is video.