SNAPCHAT -CASEY NEISTATRESEARCH

BACKGROUND Casey Neistat, is primarily a famous short film maker,director,producer and Youtuber. I have followed his career for a while now. He started off making indie short films, and through the development and growth of technology and social media, he has adapted his passion for film making and now makes daily "snapchat stories", in which he depicts his day in an alternate and original way using the app "snapchat".

EXAMPLES OF HIS SNAPCHAT STORIES

Snapchat is a fairly new application for iPhones and tablets, whereby you can send photos or videos to you friends and or followers, for a limited time only. It also allows you to write and annotate on the image or video. A snapchat story is a feature whereby you can post your photos or videos for all you followers to see, the app links all the different clips and images together to create a "story". This then lasts for 24 hours and after that is erased to allow a new story to take its place.

SNAPCHAT APP

LIVE,FEATURE ON SNAPCHATThere is also a feature which is called "Live", this is a snapchat story that everybody who uses the app can see, this story documents different live/ social events, for example recently there was one about the Sundance film festival. This story is a collection of clips and photos taken by people involved with these events

HOW I USE IT

I have found snapchat helpful in documenting my work on set, as it is simple and I have easy access to it as I have my phone on me most of the time. It also is helpful to me as I can annotate my footage ensuring I remember it and can explain it at a later date.