[P1] How to Hookah; the basics

How To Hookah; The Basics is a video expressing the basics needed to know to setting up a water pipe aka a Hookah pipe. The video through Narrative and graphics is relaying a series of followable tasks the viewer needs to know.

First we produced single clips that were going to be revealed in the How To then we used them in the proper sequence with a couple people to test. We wanted to make sure that each step made sense and we also were looking for any steps that could be misunderstood and or completely done incorrectly.





So after documenting our test subjects and with little guidance the test went over well. We did however saw a couple things that were not understand and or just user error. One was the use of two sheets of foil the other had to do with the poking of the foil but since the test had used two sheets it really was viewer error. The other steps went over well and we asked our test after how confident they felt while following the guide videos remembering that the video was still rough and was lacking finalized graphics yet the actual footage was showing the necessary steps that were going to be used in the actual video. We reshot most of the footage to be more compositionally appealing but we kept to the same scenarios and we tried to clarify anything that may have been an issue. So for instance the foil the reshoot clearly showed only one sheet of foil unfolded being placed upon the bowl with the shisha. These little moments would help clarify the video and we then focused on using the multi view tactic of tryptic narration to keep compositionally a new level to the work and also it helps the viewer see from different views which could clarify on any misunderstandings.

One thing we did stray away from was shooting the lighting of the coals, being that there are many different kinds of coals and during our test we ran into confusion being that our test video had a different type of coal that had to be placed on a oven burner to be lit instead of a self lighting coal that was shown in the test. We felt that if the person who is utilizing the hookah pipe would have read or looked at what kind of coal they are using, and if we were to show a different kind of coal it could confuse them and make them think they bought the wrong kind of coal.

So after spending some time on revising the shots we looked at graphics and how they can help the story and strengthen the narrative, in addition we started looking for music. We spent some time making sure the type complimented the vibe the video and intro type was giving at the beginning of the video. After gathering all that additional laying for the video we applied it and made our final how to composition. And this is what we came up with. I present you How to Hookah; the basics.



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Overall we were pretty happy with this project and we both are going to continue to edit and build this video, be both see some things we can do to make it better and just to continue to make a little stronger.

- Collin P. Mooney