Feedback:

• People said they felt the emotions which is cool because that means we alluded to them without having to explicitly show them like we originally thought we would have to… (e.g Alice falling down the hole)
• People could relate to the anxiety and bottomless pit feelings that come with being immersed in the online world
• People understood the contrast between the dark, isolated beginning and the brightly edited section – showing how this girl is so alone and dark, but brightly editing a photo of herself with a friend. Pretend? Showing her ideal life is only possible online? Strong theme.

Even though we said in our presentation that we originally were going to mainly focus on identity and how people almost become a different person online, but shifted more towards how people interact and connect…. We realised that we kept both ideas quite as strong as the other. Not one was stronger explored than the other, both we very much explored equally.

Because of the contrast between the girl being alone and isolated but going online allows her to feel a sense of community and she is able to become someone she doesn’t necessarily stay true to in reality….. almost becoming her ideal self. The way she edits her own photo to make it brighter and include a friend, showing how people edit themselves and only really post the best version of themselves online. Which isn’t necessarily a negative or a wrong thing, it’s still staying true to the person, but how online world allows this alteration to occur…