Production: Screen Recording Technique

I wanted to use a couple of seconds of screen recording in my documentary. Part of my documentary is going to be using statistics to illustrate how brides shop e.g. getting inspiration from Pinterest or other social media sites.
I used the screen recording feature on iPhone and took some footage of me scrolling through Pinterest and Instagram looking through wedding dresses however due to the portrait footage, this would not work in my documentary as it does not fill the screen. A contrast between the footage is shown in my clip. I knew I needed to screen record on my Mac but was unsure how to without having to download a program from the internet.

I then did some research and found this article (linked here)
 

I then searched for QuickTime Player which I have used for my documentary when presenting footage such as Kate Middleton's Wedding Dress footage.





I then simply clicked 'New Screen Recording' in which a small box popped up in the top right hand corner. After clicking this, the box disappeared and started recording everything on my screen including mouse movements and scrolling of pages. I wanted to include some screen recording as I felt it would be a nice feature due to a portion of my documentary touching on the use of the internet in the search of a brides perfect dress.



My recorded screen then popped up which I could then easily rename and add to my desktop. I then simply dragged and dropped the footage into iMovie and was able to edit it exactly how I wanted it. I chose to zoom in a little on the footage to remove the search bar and other details to make the footage seem more professional.

My screen recording is shown below as well as my first initial try from iPhone:
Screen Recording from Ella on Vimeo.