Periscope is one of the newer social media platforms, released and bought over by Twitter just a couple of weeks ago. It is a live-streaming app that allows users to share with their audiences, what they are doing at any given point of time, as long as the Internet connection permits.

For this sketch, we decided to try using Periscope to do a vlog review on a cafe called The Vine. One of the problems that we encountered was looking for a place that provided Wi-Fi, seeing as how live-streaming would take up quite a significant amount of mobile data if we were to use our own providers. That is how we ended up at one of the cafes in RMIT.

Above is the full episode of our Periscope broadcast. We were new to the app and were not quite sure how it worked, but eventually we got the hang of it. The app allowed us to use both the front and back camera, which was pretty neat. The downside of Periscope is not being able to reply any notifications from other apps, because that would hinder the broadcasting of your live stream.

However, being able to give viewers a look into your life – or in this case, the cafe you are visiting – brings people on a different journey each time. What we mean by that is, let’s say you were to start visiting the cafe a little more often. If you were to do a Periscope broadcast each time you were there, people would gradually have a better idea of what goes on at a particular place, and at what times. This, we felt, was effective in its own way.