Students lined up more than two hours before doors even opened in order to vie for the best seats for Joseph Gordon-Levitt’s hitRECord event at Graham Chapel.

Gordon-Levitt, a long-time indie actor, achieved fame through more mainstream Hollywood movies such as “10 Things I Hate About You,” “(500) Days of Summer,” “Inception” and his latest release, “50/50.” HitRECord is Gordon-Levitt’s personal online collaborative project that shares its profits with all artists who contribute.

Gordon-Levitt burst onto stage and down the aisles of Graham Chapel, greeting a sea of open arms, camera flashes and screams with a camera of his own. “Are we recording?” was his catchphrase of the night.

Throughout the night, Gordon-Levitt invited students to share their experiences at the movies by using the hashtag #hitRECordWashU on Twitter. Unabashed students tweeted their experiences about throwing up in a movie, dressing up as characters or going on a father-daughter date to “Borat,” among other experiences.

Freshman Becca Brenner was invited onstage to talk about her tweet about getting her first kiss while at a showing of “Epic Movie.”

“I love him, and I wanted to meet him. My tweet was funny, and it’s true. It made a good story, and other people probably could relate,” Brenner said. “I’m never going to have that opportunity again.”

HitRECord’s newest products include “The Tiny Book of Tiny Stories,” a collection of charming one-liner stories and puns. Members of hitRECord contribute different aspects of the book, from illustrations to the original stories themselves. Some stories are narrated and turned into accompanying animations later. Sophomore Anneliese Hernandez was invited onstage to narrate the line: “King Midas wondered what would happen if he touched himself.” This sound file will apparently be used as an actual voice-over for this ‘tiny story.’

Amanda Garcia, director of services for Congress of the South 40 and organizer of the event, was very pleased with the turnout for the event and how the event went. “I was so excited because it was exactly what I was going for with the interactive audience participation, and the audience was just really responding to what he was doing. It wasn’t someone just talking, but being a part of the whole thing,” she said.

Gordon-Levitt proved that his breadth of talent includes more than just acting, as he performed songs from hitRECord’s first anthology of artworks, photos and music, entitled “RECollection.” Gordon-Levitt sought to rekindle the nostalgia of an old movie theater and the unique bond shared by a crowd of strangers in a dark room.