Social Media!

 Social Media

UPDATE! POSTING ON SOCIAL MEDIA!

IN this blog I will be showing how my sister and I have started to post on Instagram.

Initial process:

- For planning social media the first thing we wanted to do was research and see what "vibe" we wanted to go for. This was also because we were still not fully done figuring out the "vibe" or aesthetic or our documentary. BUT after the animation portion of our episode got done (IT IS DONE AHHHH) we knew what to base our social media off of. We wanted to incorporate patterned backgrounds and use the animation consistently in posts. 

Some inspiration that we wanted in the posts came from the backgrounds in the animation sequence.

Structure: 

- After taking notes on what social media we should include, (picture  below), my sister and I made sure to keep this in mind when deciding how to structure how we want our social media to look like and how we want to tell the "story" of our documentary series. In a way, we are using our social media structure/order of posting to tell the audience what they should know in order for them to understand our messaging. For example, we aim to post different information that build the audience's knowledge of the topic of our doc: so posting messaging correlating to community and connection. 

POSTING!

SOoooo, for the actual posting now! We knew we wanted a big introduction to our docuseries by having the title take up big space as the first post. Using Canva and the "remove background" task to play around with posts, we ended up creating this:

We used Canva and made three different slides that all would match up to create this (when images posted alongside each other). We debated on whether or not making it colorful but we wanted to start our account with a "blank slate" and have the color be one shade so the title really stuck out and so that we could build color with the other posts. In addition, the color black is made up of all the rest of the colors, which also represents this initial post as a sum of all the doc episodes(in our eyes and color theory👀, just a tiny detail). 

INSPO:

Some inspiration that I've mentioned in my earlier social media post was the doc series's Instagram Abstract. This account posts quotes that some professionals or interviewees have said, along with an audio of them saying it, for example;

We thought this would be a great way to introduce our documentary series's main topics and also reveal some people involved in our episode. So, we decided to publish a post defining community and giving an enlightening quote from the psychotherapist I interviewed:

OVERALL:

Overall we are really happy with the aesthetic and types of posts we have done. I do think we need to keep posting and hurry up (I think we should've started earlier) but we are creating now so that's all that matters!!....