- For my platform, I chose TikTok. I am very familiar with it, and spend a lot of time on it looking through different videos that people post. I feel like TikTok would be a good platform because the majority of the users are people between the ages of 13-30. This would be a good audience for the GSR where that age range would be able to understand the content on the GSR. A lot of people have TikTok, and spend more time on it than Instagram. Sometimes, Instagram gets filled with ads and posts can get lost in users’ content, so I feel as though TikTok would be appropriate. The app itself is new and upcoming, and this would help draw in a targeted audience for the GSR. The only thing that would be tough is getting them to then click an external link to read the post.
- This was my caption for the video “If you liked this video, go checkout my poem on the Greenspring Review! Link is in my bio 🙂 “. You can only include 150 chatacters which includes hashtags. I included the hashtags to get more views for it. You can only manipulate the color of the text in the video itself, but my video did not contain any text. I did a smiley emoji just to send happy vibes at the end.
- For a Tik Tok, it’s all videos. I can use pictures in a video itself as well as text if needed. Out of simplicity, I think that a video with actual footage works the best. You can add your own video from your camera roll, one you just took, other videos online, etc. If someone wants to insert a photo into the video, it is simply an extra step. There are different filters and effects you can apply, to enhance your video. For my TikTok personally, I used some of my own footage from my backyard. I used an audio that is popular around TikTok, for background music. It says “Wonderland”, which I think fits well because I describe how beautiful the nature is in my poem; despite everything with Covid-19.
- For TikTok, the audience tends to use it all throughout the day. Although, posting at night seems to get more attention since people tend to scroll through TikTok similarly to how they scroll on apps such as Instagram and or Facebook. TikTokers usually post on a daily basis, to keep their followers engaged and to keep providing them with new content. Keeping up with the trends is important as well, as those tend to be more popular in terms of views and likes. To increase the likes and comments, I can add hashtags in the caption of my post. Hashtags will connect my video with other people’s, and will gather more views, likes, and comments as a result. By tagging certain tags that are trending, one can get more likes and comments.
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This is super creative! The only thing I would suggest is tie in your work into the video. You have good visual representations of what your work may be about, but maybe add some text on top of the videos explaining what you are promoting. Captions on TikTok are not read very often, with a lot of posts not even including captions. You are absolutely right in saying that this is a new trendy social media site and their is the potential to get a lot of views if your video shows up on other people’s “For You” pages.
I was honestly surprised that you chose Tik Tok but I like the idea because it is different. There are definitely a lot of users for the app that are in the age range for the majority of our audience. I also agree with Cari about incorporating your work into the post.
Sn: The video quality was amazing!
Using Tik Tok is an excellent idea! Tik Tok is the newest platform that is blowing up quickly. And there are numerous way to edit a video on it as well. What makes it even easier is that you can share a Tik Tok video on any platform, with ease.
I think Tik Tok is an interesting medium but you use it well. It is a beautiful video and I do think it can attract people to the GSR site.
Though I’m not too familiar with tik tok personally, I think if I were a user of the app and saw that video on my timeline I would stop and really focus on that post. The video is very well done and especially with people spending a lot of time inside, seeing some nature is refreshing.
Using TikTok is very creative. Rather than viewers constantly reading text, videos and pictures are much more interactive and fun. Great idea!