RESEARCH: TWITTER

TWITTER

I have a created a Twitter account to use for making and researching our film. I also made it because its a very big social platform which has lots of access to information which can help me and my group with finding information which can help us with developing our ideas. Its also very easily accessible for my group because if i re-tweet the information it allows my group to see it as well. This is good because it allows me to communicate with my group well and share ideas with them easily. Twitter is a very good good search engine which can compete with Google for finding information easily and quickly, for example people using trends and hash-tags which everyone can see and use.

Secondly, a reason why i chose twitter as well was because of the audience base which means it is very good for distribution about our film. This is because I looked at the stats of twitters users which is shown here: 

I have also looked at Alan Rusbridger's post about how important Twitter is for some people such as distribution of film as it can create a community of people interested in what you are interested in which means you can easily share your film around with your target audience. This will help us with distributing our film as we have no distribution budget and will rely on free advertising which involves social media which is why we will use twitter.

Thirdly,  nearly all films today have a twitter page to gather all the hype towards the film before its released. This is because it gets audiences excited and ready for the film which can guarantee people to watch that movie. An example of a film that has done this is Star Wars episode 7 which was all over the media and on Twitter. Star Wars' twitter page has 2.1 million followers which gives them a big fan base on that page which can would have been used for teasers of the new film to get the audience excited towards the release. Due to the amount of media Star Wars received the film was fully booked for weeks after its released and people would even stay up in the morning to watch it on the day of release.