@chrisellelim

Instagram as a social media platform has gained a lot of traction in the area of wanting to create your own entertainment. With creating your own platform, you want to customize a photo in ways that allow the viewer to understand what style you embrace. Along with conveying your style and flair, as an entrepreneur on Instagram or even just an individual with an account, wants the likes and appreciates the likes. But in order for likes to come in, you want photos that look good in the eyes of the audience. Although the photo may be a great photo, you want to enhance its potential through the use of filters and other effects like brightening or saturating. 

For my Multimedia project I decided to look at a single blogger a week to see what they did to gain the following that they have as well as what techniques that all these bloggers share.

Of the many Bloggers, platforms, and audiences to target, I had chosen to look into the inner workings of Instagram Bloggers. Not only are they creating content for their audience, they are also normal people like us. The sole difference being that they were individuals who took to Instagram with a business approach. 

For my first Blogger, I chose:

 CHRISELLE LIM

Chriselle Lim is a fashion blogger and entrepreneur. She started off as a old-school blogger, but with the changing times and evolving media, she switched over to Instagram and Youtube. On Instagram she boasts a following of ONE MILLION and posts from two to four times a day. According to the Instagram Algorithm, it apparently boosts those that not only gain many likes, but those who post frequently. Meaning Chriselle has a higher percentage to be seen by Instagram perusers than the 'average joe', for her likes and frequent posting. 

I chose Chriselle because as a Korean-American, I felt that Chriselle, being Korean-American, is a huge influence to me as well as a role model. I tackled her latest post and looked at the response to my photos using her techniques:



She had taken a mirror shot, with a tag of the location, along with a caption that did not say too much but "Shanghai" along with an emoji of the Chinese flag. I had attempted to do something similar. A mirror photo, a location tag of where I was, and a caption that didn't describe but contained an emoji.

I had definitely recieved a lot less that she did, but this was the first post. I did get likes on the photo from individuals that I did not know that had come to my page through the location tag. Although my tag was not as wide of a range, and was a tag for a small art exhibit, I still garnered likes from others. Although I am not sure as to what difference a photo not taken through a mirror would make, I would have to say both of our legs came out well   :)

stay tuned for part 2 in the C.L. series