Photos help us in keeping our memories alive. In the words of Ed Sheeran, we keep this love in a photograph, we made these memories for ourselves, where are our eyes are never closing… time’s forever frozen still. That’s how powerful photos are!
In a world full of selfie lovers, people only think about clicking photos wherever they go. They want to seize every moment and keep them etched in photos. With photo booths being the highlight of every occasion, corporate events these days, it has become important for any event organizer to come up with creative ways to let its audience engage well with the event.
Events give attendees the reason to meet, greet and click photos. Connecting the two, for organizing a successful event, don’t forget to add an attractive photo booth with personalized stuff. Here are some of the stunning event photo booth ideas to allure your attendees to not leave without clicking one.
1. Personalized Photo Booths
Back in the old days, photo booths used to be just a place to get your picture clicked in private. These days, photo booths are much of a public affair. To connect with your audience well, your photo booths should contain hilarious props and accessories that add to the look of the people. It could be big sunglasses, mustaches, big photo frames, hashtag stickers, wigs, masks, and such. Moreover, in post-production, considering techniques to remove objects from photos can ensure a polished and clean final result, enhancing the overall quality of the images captured in the booth.
Letting your attendees share their photos on social media with your unique hashtag will help you in creating a social buzz about your event too.
2. Socialize the Moments
No corporate event is successful without being able to create a social buzz or no occasion is incomplete without making your followers know about it. To socialize your moments and gain the needed online exposure of the event, make your audience spread the word about your event over social media. This can be done by giving reasons to your attendees to use a particular hashtag in their photos clicked at the event. For instance, asking your wedding attendees to share their photos by using a unique couple hashtag you have set.
To increase the excitement of your attendees, you can also display their real-time photos on digital screens by integrating it with the social media feed. Wouldn’t that just leave your attendees surprised when they will see their photo flashing over wide-angle screens!
3. Make Use of Social Wall
Now that you know how you can create UGC with the help of photo booths, it’s time to utilize this UGC in a better way. Adding a social media wall in your event will leverage the effect of photo booths and will compel attendees to be more engaging and interacting. A social wall is a tool that enables the integration of social media feed aggregated based on hashtags, mentions and tags on digital screens. This way all the user-generated photo, videos and gif content will be made to appear on digital screens in realtime to be viewed by the attendees of the event.
This integration can easily be done through the best social media wall tools in the market using which doesn’t require any prior professional knowledge.
Setting this live photo album just beside the photo booth will result in greater participation of the attendees. Audience just have to post using the particular hashtag and this live hashtag fed can be displayed using a live hashtag feed displaying tool like Taggbox.They will be able to see their just-clicked-photo beside them over the social wall. This will increase the engagement and interaction of attendees and will also be beneficial in exposing your brand to the online audience helping in generating sales leads and brand image.
4. Strategic Placement
You must place your event photo booth at a place that is easily accessible and is not left alone in an isolated place. The spot should be spacious, unavoidable and at a rationally appropriate place. It should be strategically placed such that it seeks the audience’s attention and they are compelled to step forward towards it. Also, those who are not directly connected with the event like the volunteers, rewards and other unresponsive attendees can have their gala time on the photo booth and can act as free promotional tools too.
5. Time Stoppers
You can step up your game of photo booth ideas by adding time stoppers photo booths. Time stoppers froze the moment or your action and clicked in a 360-degree angle. Bullet time, freeze frames are something new to try out that will heighten the experience of your attendees and can act as a great marketing sensation.
6. Headshot Photoshoot
Who wouldn’t like to head for a headshot photoshoot for free clicked all by themselves? Headshot photo booths are best for getting headshots especially in corporate events where headshots are always needed from time to time. For those who don’t get a perfect headshot when getting it clicked by others, it’s a perfect spot that will seek their attention.
These were some of them out of the box and trending event photo booth ideas that will take your event to the next level.
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