Film Trailer: Twitter Accounts

Once deciding that Twitter would be the most effective social media platform to use, Ella and I then created fake accounts for the primary, secondary and background characters from our film trailer. We created a total of 5 twitter accounts, one each for: Alice, Maggie, Brad and 2 bullies. These accounts were meant to give our trailer audience an insight into their thoughts and to highlight the cyberbullying aspect of the storyline.

I created a fake twitter account for Maggie's boyfriend: Brad. Brad is supposed to be the ring leader of the cyberbullying as he vents his anger online, directed at Alice. His anger is vented in the forms of tweets, which the audience can see in the trailer, as illustrated in the screenshot from the first draft of our film trailer below.

I also screenshot my phone screen after tweeting some 'angry' tweets from Brad's perspective. I tweeted several tweets so that when Ann was scrolling through Alice's twitter feed during filming, it would truly highlight the extent of the bullying. To highlight the bullying's extent, Ella and I decided to create 2 background characters which would play the roles of bully's, supporting Brad. These 2 bullies were called Holly and Steve. Holly and Steve both contribute to the bullying by tweeting mean messages to Alice and supporting Brad, as illustrated by Holly below.

Steve also supports Brad and Holly in the cyber attack against Alice, the concept of '3 is a crowd' is really evident here as gradually, Alice receives more hateful messages which evidently negatively affect her. Maggie's twitter account wasn't truly necessary for this scene, however we created one anyway for dramatic effect. During the cyber attack against Alice, Maggie is placed in a difficult position where she stuck between a feud. This therefore meant that there wasn't much for Maggie to tweet about. Ella and I decided that we'd still create an account for our fictional character, but instead of her tweeting hate fuelled comments, she too would vent her feelings, which were contrasting to Brad's, as illustrated below.