Social media research

 After meeting with our teacher to discuss our ideas, we have finally narrowed it down to two main topics: unspoken rules and self growth. We also concluded that we want our protagonist to be a teenage female girl, since it is something we can all relate to the most. Although these are both pretty broad, some of the more specific plots we discussed are:

• A girl who shows up to school one morning, but before walking in, decides to turn around and have a day where she does everything different.
• Unspoken rules in society, and deciding to spend a day breaking all of them. Ex: Blasting music in public, petting someone else's baby, etc. This would follow a more comedic plot.

Since we haven't come up with a firm plot, it is hard to develop a social media brand just yet, but I decided to do some research in order to be prepared for when we start to make it this coming week. When I think of movies that follow the story of a teenage girl and self growth, but also hold some comedic elements in them, some of my favorites are Lady Bird and Edge of Seventeen. 

When looking at the Instagram for Lady Bird, something that surprised me is that most of the pictures were not necessarily from the clips of the movie, but rather a lot of promotional posts, such as a tweet of Greta's upcoming movie or Saoirse Ronan on a vogue cover. 

A candid picture of the director of the movie, Greta Gerwig

The overall layout of the Instagram

I also took notice of the fact that the posts followed a specific, neutral theme with the colors, and paid a lot of tribute to the actors within the film and the producers.