Final Project Footage

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Final Project

For my final project, I decided to stick with my ongoing theme of social media. As you know, I have been focusing specifically on Twitter and I am quite proud on how this one turned out. It was a mixture of my first two projects both in how they look and played out.

As you can tell, I was unable to stand my project up and this definitely infringed on the outcome but overall I would call it a success! I placed the giant poster on the ground in the rescom courtyard and on a table in the vaughn courtyard and straz courtyard.

2nd Project

Compared to my last project, this turned out to be difficult. Creating the twitter account and actually tweeting was the easy part. However, trying to become relevant on twitter was not. I created forty posters and posted them up Friday and Saturday night. Hoping for some response, there was nothing granted my some posters were still up this time! I decided my approach needed to change if no one was going to tweet me then I would have to reach out to them. I posted on my Facebook and twitter asking for people to help me out on this project.

Here is where it started to get interesting, people had no idea what to say. The whole point of twitter is to say whatever, whenever but when directly being asked to tweet people were hesitant. One friend even tweeted me on my private account saying she did not know what to say. This entirely jus baffled me! Referring back to my first project, people actually wrote on the iPhone posters knowing people would see them. In this case, whatever people tweeted they knew others would see and potentially be judged. Not knowing who wrote what in my first project gave people a greater incentive to act whereas merely asking people, they became nervous. 

Project 1

My idea for this project has been ever changing. When I was talking to Leslie about it last week, she mentioned having a type of drawing board which people could express themselves on. From this, I came up with the idea of having people write a tweet. I created iPhones out of poster boards and posted them in two elevators in Vaughn, Brevard and the mens bathroom in Vaughn. I figured the elevators would be busy and the bathroom was out of pure curiosity. These days people are glued to their cellphones and the social media that comes with them. Therefore, I wanted to see if people truly see what is going on around them.

 Brevard Elevators

 Vaughn Elevators

 Men's Bathroom Vaughn

 Results

 

The posters actually made it on instagram and it was one of the poster I did not retrieve. It just shows even more how much people responded to them.