Today we presented our online fictional characters to the class and our tutors through the 3 websites we produced for them. As you may already know from my previous blogs, my group's fictional character was Kyle Jackson, a Liverpudlian graduate who emmigrated to Australia to become a lifeguard instructor. Collectively we created a Twitter, Facebook and Tumblr account for Kyle to see how others would interact with him and whether they believed it was a real person or not. Successfully Kyle gained 62 followers and around 70 Facebook friends which was a clear indicator that people believed it was a real person.
I enjoyed tweeting and writing Facebook status's for Kyle as it allowed me to escape from my own life and imagine how another person would live in a whole other country with a different lifestyle.
I also enjoyed watching how other groups had developed their characters and had created short videos on Youtube and audio clips on Soundcloud as it made their characters seem more realistic in a sense and showed how easy it was to interact with other fictional characters for example Josie's group who were a set of friends living in one flat. I found this as a good approach as it allowed them to create the notion of a sitcom which may have been entertaining if it was a real programme.
The only problems i had with this task was that at times I found it hard to think of what to tweet for Kyle as he led a pretty normal life for a guy who lives in Australia and in the end taught me to try and think more creatively when developing a character online.
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