Live-Tweeting But It’s About MOVIES

I find it interesting looking at the technology they demonstrated in “2001” as the movie being made in 1968 – and comparing it to what it actually was like back then and even NOW #bcm325 #2001ASpaceOdyssey

— TORI (@torisaros) March 4, 2022

Not me struggling to even watch the movie cause my wifi isn’t being friendly 🤌🏼 #bcm325

— TORI (@torisaros) March 3, 2022

The first week of live-tweeting was an interesting mission for me. I had never live-tweeted before – other than maybe The Bachelor Finale of 2020, which found the Twitter feed way more entertaining than the show itself. Trying to understand a few things during this time made me realise would need to be a bit more organised when it came to the screenings. 

1.  My wifi left me having to watch the movie on a different day to screening time which is A LOT harder to do when no one else is tweeting at the same time. As well as making sure I had access to the movie
2. The movie itself I had never seen… I also have no background information on it (another challenge)
3. What should I actually be tweeting about…? Maybe my own observations? information for others? Once I figured this out my process through live-tweeting became slightly easier

There once was a Wild West World… The theme park was only open for 2 months before permanently closing down 👀 #BCM325 pic.twitter.com/wSbSEFOhDc

— TORI (@torisaros) March 10, 2022

Did someone say Dyson AirWrap? 👀 #BladeRunner #BCM325 pic.twitter.com/wgLVXRnDhi

— TORI (@torisaros) March 17, 2022

I found when interacting with peers’ tweets during the screening I gravitated toward the memes and interesting connections that were being made. I feel the interactions and scrolling through the Twitter feed allowed me to see other things 

So a replicant is a replicated human? But they are superior to humans with strength, etc? But they are inferior cause they are being used as slaves? Makes sense! #bcm325 #bladerunner pic.twitter.com/zOl7V28kRf

— 𝓑𝐨𝐧𝐧𝐢𝐞 𝓢𝐭𝐨𝐧𝐞𝐬𝐭𝐫𝐞𝐞𝐭 🌺✨ (@ItsBonnieMaree) March 17, 2022

Towards the end of the 5 weeks I started to come up with a different process: 

• Pre-Watch film or conduct research and prewritten tweets prior to screening.
• A mix between resource/ observation tweets (and a couple of memes to top it off)
• Going back and watching Chris’ guide on live-tweeting definitely helped! 
• I plan to utilise TweetDeck! This platform allows you to overview a range of Twitter menus and hashtags/posts at one time. this will help with live-tweeting and interactions all on one screen.

This SCREAMS ‘The Truman Show’ 🤣I guess we may just never know 👀#BCM325 #TheMatrix https://t.co/9Pal5pMk6D

— TORI (@torisaros) March 31, 2022

Going forward into the films and live-tweeting, I really would like to watch the movie earlier in the week to prepare and discuss the movie. By doing this I hope to find my interactions could be better and more connecting during the screening during seminar time. I feel as though I lacked a bit on background research tweets in the first couple of screenings, but once I started to get the hang of it with more information, research and connection to the subject material. Overall there is a lot I will be striving to improve on.