Micro-Movies a Great Way to Spice Up Your Social Media Posts

My husband Bret and I attended a lovely wedding celebration this past weekend for our step nephew Justin Shaw and his bride Natalie Suhr. They chose The Fountains West for their event, and I had fun capturing Vines throughout the evening. I ended up with 32 all together! If you're not familiar with it, the Vine app (available free for both Apple and Android devices) records six-second looping videos by touching the screen to begin recording and releasing it to end recording. It's great fun and the looping feature helps spark creative micro-movie-making ideas.

When I first started playing with Vine, I was trying to think of fun ways to maximize the looping feature. Here are a couple of my first Vines: Another Knock Knock Joke and Happy Birthday (shown). While admittedly obnoxious, they show how the looping feature can play creatively into your video.

I've also had a lot of fun doing mini how-to videos on Vine, such as Need a Quick Hat?, Dress Too Small? (shown) and Puppy Gone Loopy? (find these and more at Creative Solutions by iWiNK on Pinterest).

More recently, I've been exploring the Magisto Magical Video Editor app (also available free for both Apple and Android devices). Since I have a broadcasting degree and have made several promotional videos over the years (some of which are on my YouTube channel at iWiNK Productions) I wasn't sure how I'd like an automatic video-editing format. However, my inner control freak is learning to work with it, and take the randomness which sometimes creeps into the finished product with a sense of humor! 

Magisto will do things like show only parts of the picture and if that part doesn't happen to be the part you wanted featured, you're out of luck, but most of the time, it's pretty fun. An example of some of the interesting choices can be found in one of my first videos: Flat Stantley's Adventures at BRIN Cottage.

The video's clipped in places and there are parts where Flat Stanley is almost cut out of the shot, but it almost gives the feeling he's hiding, so it kind of works!

Here's an example using some of those wedding Vines I mentioned and a few photos: Justin & Natalie 9.27.2014. You can see where parts are edited a bit different from what a person might choose, but I'm not sure any actual people are involved in this process!

All in all, both Vine and Magisto are great tools for spicing up your digital publishing, and if you haven't tried them or any similar tools, why not choose one and try it today? They're really pretty easy to learn (if you need help, there's a How-to on YouTube for just about everything), plus everyone who views it will appreciate the effort! Good luck and happy posting!

Today's Quote:

“Social media is your platform to build a unique fan base while you express yourself exactly how you see yourself. Build wisely.” 

― Germany Kent