Limited character counts. Short shelf life. Shorter attention spans. There are plenty of barriers to telling an effective story on social media.
ASK: An independent theatre wanted to collect and tell stories from its ten years of operation that they’d share primarily on social media. Originally, they thought if they asked people to send in their stories, they would. But they got crickets.
DELIVERY: I interviewed former and current staff, board members, patrons, and artists. I pared each interview down to Instagram length and used that person’s story to highlight an aspect of the cinema’s history: Raising the Funds, Surviving Covid, Film Camp. The pieces were brief but provided an amazingly full story.
“Film has been such an integral part of my learning as a human. I see the Bijou-FilmScene partnership as an extension of the classroom, and I knew I wanted to be a part of those conversations.” - Hannah
“The first movie we watched together was The Disaster Artist. We have somewhat different taste in movies (and movie candy).” - Madi & Nadhif
“I’ve kind of done it all, from revving up the projector and serving beers and cocktails to hot wiring our vacuum and unloading pallets of kernels.” -Grant