How to Make a Vine Video, by Actor Adam Goldberg

Vine is a mobile app that lets you shoot six-second videos, or Vines, to share on social networking sites. The in-app camera records only when you’re holding your finger to the screen of the phone, so there’s an inherent stop-motion element that provides a paranoid or anxious quality, which seems to jibe with my aesthetic.

In order to make a great Vine I suggest, above all else, one acquire a severe, if not crippling, case of obsessive-compulsive disorder. Because one can’t edit Vines or add sound post facto, it’s challenging and often impossible to make seamless sound edits. To get a fluid soundtrack across multiple cuts, I often leave spaces between prerecorded audio or use a loop pedal to record music loops with built-in cues that let me know the exact beats on which to film and stop filming.