Barbering Instructional Video Project & AC1: Informing Ideas

Interpretation of the Brief

Salon Professionals are barbers who are intended for younger audiences. The ages of their target audience are between the ages of 16 to 18 years old as the young generation are obsessed with their unique hairstyles that Salon Professionals has to offer. The deadline of creating the tutorial is on 24th May, 2021 and the resubmission is on 14th June, 2021. The duration for the video is to 5 or 10 minutes long depending on the things that a person has included in their respective tutorials.

Salon Professionals offers unique hairstyles to teenagers who are looking for a good and unique hairstyles such as fades, skin fades, taper, fades comb over etc. Salon Professionals is here to satisfy the needs for teenagers between the ages of 16 to 18. 

A tutorial is gonna take place at Salon Professionals. The tutorial is gonna be about how to cut hair like a pro and it is aiming at audiences who are potentially thinking about to become professional barber in the future. During filming, the whole place must be in silence not to distract anyone during filming and the shots must be still, so a tripod must be used in order capture the barber cutting the customers hair. In this circumstances, close-up shots will also be used in this tutorial to get the main the main attraction of the video. It is also important that the shots must be in close attention to mise-en-scene because the tutorial needs to capture everything that is related to barbering such as the equipment, setting, the barber etc.

The tutorial may include the origins of hairstyles and how each hairstyle got popular within the society of today's youth and the tutorial will also include equipment and life style of the barbers. The audience for the tutorial are for the ones who are keen to become professionals barbers in the future and they might be interested to know how the hairstyle got its origins from, life style, and equipment. Also, they will use this tutorial as a educational video and getting skills that they need to become a barber.

Tutorial Examples

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0LAYFKNJRBY

The overall review of this lemonade tutorial is pretty decent. The person behind it was really informative as he give us a basic information about how many teaspoons of sugar you supposed to add and how many lemons you should have etc. The tutorial adds texts in to tells us the quantity and how many minutes that the lemonade is supposed to be in the fridge. The shot that he used are medium close-up to capture the ingredients and adding them step by step, later in the video he did used medium shot of him putting the lemonade into the fridge to tells us how long the lemonade should sit in the fridge.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=veyZNyurlwU

This one I must say is pretty dull. This tutorial doesn't include any subtitles, all that it does is shows us how to fold paper by each step to get to the final result. The shot that he or she used is extreme close-up to capture a perfect angle of him or her folding the paper to make an airplane step by step. The video doesn't include music and only thing that you can hear is the paper folds.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lIb_741_dIw

The last example is a brownie tutorial. The tutorial in itself is very informative as it gives us basic ingredients of a brownie, the texts of the ingredients appear when he or she puts the ingredients into a bowl and mixing them. Majority of the shots that are used for this video is over head-shot, they used this shot when they are putting the ingredients together and another shot that they also used is close-up shot for the brownies as soon as they were finished with it.  

Evaluation

For my own barbering video, I would include steps to help my viewers of how you should start, do's & don'ts, and what equipment that is perfect for one particular hair cut. I might even include the origins of a specific hair cut like skin fade for example. The duration of my video will be about 3 minutes long, I choose this duration to prevent boredom and over kill of my intended target audience; if I have chosen my length or duration of my tutorial  to be 40 minutes, my viewers would probably not even make it half-way through the tutorial so 3 minutes is all that I need for my tutorial.

The thing that I would be aware of when making this video is the pacing of the video because it is really important for my audience to understand and learn slowly, step by step and adding music into the mix to make the video really fun and entertaining to watch and learn. There is videos that I have seen that lack of excitement in them, although they were informative but its also important to show ambition and passion in my part for my viewers because I want them to show the charm and fun that barbering has.

Even though my tutorial can also be intended for viewers who would want to teach themselves how to make their own hair cut, my tutorial can also be used for an educational video for viewers who are considering becoming a barber as their job in the future, will find this tutorial really useful and helpful to learn new skills and new hair styles.