Here we are…the last week of our PROJECT INSTAFAME !!!!!!!!!

This week has been an interesting one indeed. In our final Tuesday meeting (again a very productive session) as a group we suddenly had a eureka moment and realised where the story needed to go. This was brought on by our realisation of the role Instagram in Emily’s story.

While although Instagram does help build Emily’s character by depthening her thoughts through another social media platform, it is not really playing the part we wanted it to initially play when planning out our story. What we original wanted for Instagram to be the ‘perfectly curated life’ that she would want others to see her by but we realised this week that it hasn’t really been achieving that at all and I believe this is mainly to do with the fact our main characters image is taken from a screenshot of youtube, we don’t have the real person to be able to take photos that we needed put that as the content on our Instagram.

Ideally perhaps maybe if we had hired an actor look alike or a friend of ours, we could have taken a series of very ‘self-obessed’ photos and continually be posting those throughout the days of our narrative but unfortunately this was not the case and we came to the group that pretty much our use of Instagram is easily a throw away and is really not as essentially to the story anymore but….

We knew we had to make up for this loss somehow and as a group we decided to incorporate the use of facebook pages, I am unsure if my other group members have said exactly what this facebook page is as it would spoil the ending of the story, so I will just avoiding saying exactly what is on the page!! But now that we decided to bring this new transmedia element in, it has worked out so perfectly for us as it gives our spectator a clear ending point and also ties up a lot of loose ends about the story the audience may have been puzzled or curious by. So I am really happy that as a group we came to this awesome idea! The ending also concludes our the theme of online desperation and teenages obessive behaviour of getting gratification from actions such as a ‘like’ on facebook, in a dark but also realistic kind of way.

I must say I am very interested to hear the feedback of our project!! I think it is an engaging story and hopefully our audiences do as well!

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