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For this assignment, I had to create a 6 second video of something I did today. The assignment says to use the “Vine” app but since Vine no longer exists, I used Snapchat instead! Still 6 seconds, just a different app so basically the same thing. Unfortunately, nothing I did today was all that interesting. At least not that I could take a video of anyways. I took some fun claims today and graduated my training program at work but I’m not allowed to use my phone in work areas so I couldn’t use any of those things Anyways, I ended up settling on taking a video of doing an assignment for this class! Not at all interesting but it does show how I generally get homework done so I guess it at least offers some insight into my life? After recording the video, I saved it to my phone and then uploaded it to my YouTube channel in order to share it with you guys. Here it is!

When I saw this assignment, I knew I wanted to do this one. I was already very familiar with Vine and how it works, I had an account that I made last summer. So I used it and video taped, using my phone, what my Sunday morning to the afternoon looked like. After I completed the vine I took the video and sent a text message with the video in it to my email account. From there I was able to save the video to my computer. After that I uploaded to video to Windows Movie Maker and added a Title page and some background music, and then it was complete.

It was pretty simple to create and a lot of fun to try and add so much into 6 seconds. I have not been on Vine in a long time and to be able use this assignment as an excuse to get back on it was a lot of fun. It was challenging to make sure everything turned out great with the vine. I had some trouble with my dog and trying to get him to run up the stairs it took me a few minutes to get him together.

The vine showed my Sunday morning, I had to drive around and run some errands for my family, then I was able to stop off for some food. Then I got back to the house and had to watch the dog. Then I finished the vine off with capturing my tasty lunch from McDonald’s.

Following suit of what I had stated for preparation for this assignment, I went ahead and started the Vine It! assignment that is worth 3 stars. It was a pretty fun and easy assignment, although Vine was a bit confusing to use at first because this is the first time I’ve ever had hands on use with it. Before, I would just see Vines all over the internet and it would just automatically play once I click the URL or post with a specific vine attached to it.

All I did was download the app on my iPhone from the app store, set up my account through twitter (though I synced the wrong twitter account to it and I don’t know how to undo it), and simply recorded what I thought was my best daily routine was each day (though I do not eat ramen everyday, which would be bad).

I also downloaded a plugin called “Vine Embed”, which allowed me to basically embed my vine video directly from Vine and onto my WordPress blog.

Vine it! for 3 stars

For starters, I only knew about the Vine application because of my boyfriend and his friends when they always watch these videos. So when I saw this was an assignment, I jumped at it because I wanted to see what all the talk was about it, and being able to create my own Vine was definitely interesting.

After downloading Vine to my phone, I started experimenting on how to create and edit videos within the application. After playing around with the videos and watching examples of videos on Vine, I thought to myself what day during the week would be good to create my video. I chose today, Friday 11/7 because I commute from Woodbridge down to UMW for class at 8 and stay until roughly 1 o’clock. Then I start my adventure home, just to run inside, change clothes and grab something to eat, then head straight into work (the pharmacy). After work, I get to come home and finally just get to relax and go to sleep.

I opened the app and clicked on the video camera in the top corner of it.

After opening up the recording button, I held down on my phone’s screen to record myself and/or whatever I wanted to record and released my finger when I wanted that part to be stopped. I repeated this step without saving or exiting out of the application for each different clip I recorded until my 6 seconds was completed.

Once the 6 seconds was reached, the video started rendering which took me to the preview/edit/save screen.

When the preview/edit/save screen comes up, the video automatically started playing and I had the choice to edit, save or exit the preview screen which would take me back to the original recording screen. I then clicked save, because I was satisfied with how my vine came out and it saved directly to my phones gallery. After it saved, I went ahead and emailed it to myself and uploaded to Vimeo for ds106 to see!