Social Media & Your Career
Social Media is a big communication channel that is taken all over the world. Social media is all about content sharing and also about collaborations and interaction between people. There is a lot of examples of social media websites or applications such as Facebook, which we can say every person in the world has one or Twitter, Google, Wikipedia, Instagram and lots more.
For me as a filmmaker, social media is a really important aspect to promote my work through sharing it and letting people see what i am capable off. By sharing my work i can get feedback by interacting with other creative people or even get to know what fans would like and would not like to see. Promoting my work sounds easy but its not, i need to step up strategies in order to know what do i need to promote exactly and what should i focus on. In last weeks lecture, i mentioned three objectives that i would like to fulfill through social media, that i find really important. The first one is to network with others in my niche because this is how i would get better at what i do and understand more about it, get to know the people that are interested in the same subject that i am and learn more from them, the second one would be building a community/data, for me a having a community is a goal. It is not easy to achieve but i believe that if i put my personal side in my work people would follow me because i would be expressing my self through art, some people might not like it but at the same time other people my relate. Some people might just go for commercial stuff just to get the people's attention, other might do something that they really feel that it needs to be out for people to see. The Third objective and i believe is one of the most important one is to get feedback on my work, because for me i would find my work perfect, feedback will help me do a better job and at the same time i would be interacting with the people which helps a lot to improve and get better. Feedback motivates you always for the better.
Relating this lecture on my career, it opened my eye on how important social media is and how i can benefit from it if i use it in the right way.
