Reels are an excellent way to broaden your audience, increase participation, and grow your community. Their popularity (as well as the viral nature of their content) is apparent.
Instagram Reels are short-form videos that are great for sharing entertaining, instructive and inspirational material. Reels, like TikTok, use a vertical structure to provide an unending, scrollable feed.
Keep reading further to find out how you can make engaging and fun reels for your audience in a step-by-step guide.
Reels can be made in a time frame of 15 to 60 seconds long videos that can keep your audience engaged in a fun and interesting way. Reels can be made and uploaded as a pre-made video or a single shot on Instagram or a bunch of short videos combined together.
Here are a few simple steps that you need to follow to create a reel on Instagram.
Open the Instagram app and click on the plus sign on the top right corner of your feed and select the reels options. This would redirect you to a screen with your camera and multiple other options.
If you are uploading a pre-shot video, you can click on the bottom left icon on the screen that will open your gallery and you can simply post a video from there.
If you are shooting a video in the app, you have multiple choices and variations to enhance your reels.
To shoot the video, there are various filters to make the video look appealing and also various playback speeds.
There is also a self-timer option which can help you if you are taking a video by yourself.
The most interesting part is the music feature. Upon completing your reel you may choose to add a song from a variety of your song options and can also select which part of the song you want to be added to your video.