tactilityvideo.md

# Tutorial for a tactility video

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A really useful way of documenting the sensory qualities of a material, or the "feel" and sound of it is to shoot a video. With some small tricks you can show a lot of properties that a material has, using sound and reflection of light while you are playing with a sample. In the tutorial below I explain some ways to give a more tactile demonstration of these material qualities: 

- strength
- hardness
- shape memory
- weight
- translucence
- texture (and also glossiness actually)
- structure
- stickiness
- scratch resistance
- surface friction
- and more generally: using sound, light, and distance from the camera to demonstrate all of the above. 

All the tactility videos I made of the material samples in this project (and more), are listed in this [Youtube playlist](https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLXJnjBsCdBxGIRjgl9SVeoAYn7UzqS8A6).

I'm using my iPhone to shoot these, and a video stand I designed that can be laser cut from a 50x30 cm sheet of 4 mm MDF. You can download these cutfiles ([Illustrator file](../../files/tools/stopmotionstand.ai), and [DXF file](../../files/tools/stopmotionstand.dxf), (they are also under "Tools" in the menubar on the left). 

![](../../images/stopmotionstand.jpg)*A simple phone stand to make tactility videos with your phone, Loes Bogers, 2020*