Wednesday, 21 May 2014
Tuesday, 20 May 2014
Narrative Arc
The narrative arc which I have made is an analysis of the documentary which I am planning to make.
I plan on answering these main questions in separate sections:
Section 1
VT (Video Tape):
For the first section there will be a VT introduction to introduce the documentary which is about to be shown. The introduction will be made as a VT (Video Tape). The video will contain a montage of different shots which are related to social media so it will show images and videos of facebook, twitter and other social media websites etc and it will also show images and videos of teenagers using social media. The VT will also contain shots of the presenter to introduce the presenter to the audience. As it will be a VT the locations will be from many different places however they will all be filmed previously and not in real time when the documentary was shot. The duration of this section which is the VT will be 40 seconds, I feel as this is a right amount of duration as there will be enough time in that 40 seconds to cover all the shots and graphics.
Section 2
Introduction:
For the second section of the documentary there will be an introduction. This section is going to be a Piece to the Camera. A piece to camera shot is when someone is right in front of the camera speaking directly to it so it seems as if they are talking to the audience. In this section the presenter of the documentary will be addressing the subject. It will be a male presenter, the male presenter is going to use this introduction to introduce the subject by explaining a little bit about it and what it is. He will explain what aims he wishes to get answered throughout the whole documentary as there will be five main questions which he aims to get answered. In this section the presenter will be walking past many different locations and also may walk past a group of teenagers whilst they are on their phones. The duration of this section will be roughly 55 seconds as I feel this will be enough time to get the whole introduction from the presenter through, the presenter will also present himself as a teenager and will stress that he is also trying to find out the information out for himself also..."I will be trying to find out..."
Section 3
Presenter:
In the third section the presenter is going to have the main role. The presenter is going to introduce many different facts and statistics whilst not being on camera. there is going to be a voiceover where the presenter is going to be talking about what life was like before social media came along and changed everything. As the presenter is going on about what life was like before social media came along there will be pictures showing what has been introduced into the world such as twitter and facebook, for example it will show how in previous years people had to write letters to each other in forms of communication but now they can simply log onto facebook or twitter and if they are following the other person or have them as a friend they can simply write a message to them publicly or privately. This section will run on for about 2 minutes.
Section 4
Convention Shots:
In this section the documentary is going to include shots of the media convention summed up into a montage, it will show shots of the different people that were talking, the buiding, inside the building and different peoples reactions with music playing throughout. This section will roughly be about 30 seconds.
Section 5
Convention:
In this section it will be focused on the convention which the presenter is going to attend. The convention is going to be at the London Social Media Cafe where people who share an interest in social media come and talk about the effects and generally about it. In the section it is going to show shots of what occurs in the convention and some of the people who spoke and shared their own opinions on the matter. This section will be around 4 minutes.
Section 6
Convention Vox Pops
After the convention is finished the presenter will go and ask some of the volunteers short closed questions about social media, the questions will be based on the documentaries subject and will ask questions regarding how social media effects teenagers. This section will run on for roughly a minute.
Section 7
Convention answers summed up:
In this section I will make graphics which will contain statistics from the vox pops with the people from the convention, it will contain statistics such as a graph of how many people said yes and how many people said no.
Section 8
Presenter
In this section the presenter will recap what went on in the convention and summarise it all. This section will go on for a minute.
Section 9
Psychologist:
In this section the presenter will have a meeting with a psychologist, the reason for this is to get a more in depth view with the situation and see how exactly a psychologist would think that social media effects teenagers, this will be one of the main interviews so it will last at least 3 minutes.
Section 10
Vox Pops with school students
In this section the presenter will go to people in the lower year students who are just becomming teenagers and ask them short closed questions such as if their parents let them use social media.
Section 11:
Main Interview
In this section will be the main interview, this interview will be with Kevin Poulter who is an expert in social media, he has already agreed to meet and we will have the main interview at a set location. This interview will last about 4 minutes.
Section 12:
This section will be a montage of everything which occured throughout the documentary to cap it all off.
I plan on answering these main questions in separate sections:
Section 1
VT (Video Tape):
For the first section there will be a VT introduction to introduce the documentary which is about to be shown. The introduction will be made as a VT (Video Tape). The video will contain a montage of different shots which are related to social media so it will show images and videos of facebook, twitter and other social media websites etc and it will also show images and videos of teenagers using social media. The VT will also contain shots of the presenter to introduce the presenter to the audience. As it will be a VT the locations will be from many different places however they will all be filmed previously and not in real time when the documentary was shot. The duration of this section which is the VT will be 40 seconds, I feel as this is a right amount of duration as there will be enough time in that 40 seconds to cover all the shots and graphics.
Section 2
Introduction:
For the second section of the documentary there will be an introduction. This section is going to be a Piece to the Camera. A piece to camera shot is when someone is right in front of the camera speaking directly to it so it seems as if they are talking to the audience. In this section the presenter of the documentary will be addressing the subject. It will be a male presenter, the male presenter is going to use this introduction to introduce the subject by explaining a little bit about it and what it is. He will explain what aims he wishes to get answered throughout the whole documentary as there will be five main questions which he aims to get answered. In this section the presenter will be walking past many different locations and also may walk past a group of teenagers whilst they are on their phones. The duration of this section will be roughly 55 seconds as I feel this will be enough time to get the whole introduction from the presenter through, the presenter will also present himself as a teenager and will stress that he is also trying to find out the information out for himself also..."I will be trying to find out..."
Section 3
Presenter:
In the third section the presenter is going to have the main role. The presenter is going to introduce many different facts and statistics whilst not being on camera. there is going to be a voiceover where the presenter is going to be talking about what life was like before social media came along and changed everything. As the presenter is going on about what life was like before social media came along there will be pictures showing what has been introduced into the world such as twitter and facebook, for example it will show how in previous years people had to write letters to each other in forms of communication but now they can simply log onto facebook or twitter and if they are following the other person or have them as a friend they can simply write a message to them publicly or privately. This section will run on for about 2 minutes.
Section 4
Convention Shots:
In this section the documentary is going to include shots of the media convention summed up into a montage, it will show shots of the different people that were talking, the buiding, inside the building and different peoples reactions with music playing throughout. This section will roughly be about 30 seconds.
Section 5
Convention:
In this section it will be focused on the convention which the presenter is going to attend. The convention is going to be at the London Social Media Cafe where people who share an interest in social media come and talk about the effects and generally about it. In the section it is going to show shots of what occurs in the convention and some of the people who spoke and shared their own opinions on the matter. This section will be around 4 minutes.
Section 6
Convention Vox Pops
After the convention is finished the presenter will go and ask some of the volunteers short closed questions about social media, the questions will be based on the documentaries subject and will ask questions regarding how social media effects teenagers. This section will run on for roughly a minute.
Section 7
Convention answers summed up:
In this section I will make graphics which will contain statistics from the vox pops with the people from the convention, it will contain statistics such as a graph of how many people said yes and how many people said no.
Section 8
Presenter
In this section the presenter will recap what went on in the convention and summarise it all. This section will go on for a minute.
Section 9
Psychologist:
In this section the presenter will have a meeting with a psychologist, the reason for this is to get a more in depth view with the situation and see how exactly a psychologist would think that social media effects teenagers, this will be one of the main interviews so it will last at least 3 minutes.
Section 10
Vox Pops with school students
In this section the presenter will go to people in the lower year students who are just becomming teenagers and ask them short closed questions such as if their parents let them use social media.
Section 11:
Main Interview
In this section will be the main interview, this interview will be with Kevin Poulter who is an expert in social media, he has already agreed to meet and we will have the main interview at a set location. This interview will last about 4 minutes.
Section 12:
This section will be a montage of everything which occured throughout the documentary to cap it all off.
Proposal
For my documentary I plan to base it on Social Media
Aims
The question which my documentary aims to answer is 'how does social media currently effect teenagers social life and spare time'. There are five main questions which I aim to get answered in this documentary. I aim to answer this by having a well limited lengthened documentary which will have enough time to show enough information on this subject. The five main questions which I wish to get answered are:
- When did social media start start taking effect as a whole?
- What age range does social media effect the most?
- How does social media effect teenagers psychologically?
- Who in genders uses it more?
- How does social media effect teenagers spare time?
Content
In my documentary I plan on showing many aspects which will be viewed as the important content. I plan on containing a lot of interviews in this documentary, by interviews it means that there will be a lot of short interviews and a lot of vox pops. By having vox pops it will result in me receiving a short answer on the subject, the interviewer will be asking short questions to people in the public, the answers that we will get will most likely be closed answers which mean that the answers will mostly contain either Yes or No's. By the short interviews I plan on receiving a more of a developed answer by the interviewee, as these won't be vox pops we will have more time to sit down and have more of a time consumed interview with whoever the interviewee is. By having both of these type of interviews it will show that there are two types of answers that you can get and this will give a good side to the documentary. The other types of content that will be shown in the documentary will also be a lot of graphics, by graphics it means that there will be a lot of graphs and statics, at the beginning of the documentary there will be secondary graphs and statistics which appear on the screen showing facts about social media and towards the end of the documentary there will be primary graphs and statistics as they will be based on the information that has been found out primarily throughout the whole documentary.
Target audience
The target audience for my documentary is going to be 13 - 24. In the brief that we received it said that the documentary should be from 16 - 24 however I feel that it would be a better idea for my subject to based it from a younger audience too and this is because 13 is roughly the age when people start using social media and it is also the age when kids become teenagers so it will be a learning type documentary for them. The target audience is also going to be unisex and this is because both genders use social media just as much as the other and from primary research I have also found out an interesting fact which said that women use social media more than men. In the documentary I would expect my audience to have some knowledge on social media as most of the world are already active social media users and this is because most people have computers and phones which have the availability of social media.
Genre
The genre of this piece of work is going to be a documentary, it will be a short lengthed documentary which will be made just like a well known documentary however will be elegantly different.
Format
The format of this documentary is going to be in participatory mode, this is because there will be a lot of engagement between the presenter and the subject of the documentary. The presenter is going to go to many different places where they will be trying to find out as much information as possible regarding the subject.
Tuesday, 6 May 2014
Analyzing The Competition
Analyzing the Competition
In this blog post I will be finding three shows which are currently on television and that can be compared with my documentary which I will be creating soon.
How hackers changed the world was a documentary which was aired on BBC, it was a 58.21 minute long documentary and was based on hackers using computers to develop many different ways of hacking into many systems and programmes.
The documentary wasn't really similar to my idea for my documentary as i wont be basing mine on hackers infact I will be basing mine on the effects which social media has on teenagers lives.
Catfish TV Show
Catfish is a tv show which is based on people who make fake profiles on online social media and meet people with a fake identity, the reasons are normally revealed in the show, sometimes the reasons vary between emotional problems as the person behind the fake profiles just want to make a fake profile to simply feel better about themselves. other reasons sometimes also vary between money issues as they force money out of the victims
This show is similar to mine as it is based around social media. At 2:32 we see where the social media aspects come from as the presenter in the voiceover says 'until I met felicia on a dating website'. Dating websites are used as social media as many people can interact with each other and provide their own details for other people to see. The show airs on tuesdays and saturdays on the channel MTV. The viewing figures are between 55 000 and 54 000. Those are pretty big figures for a show which is based on social media. The show doesn't always just show online dating sites, you would also find that sites like twitter and facebook are also used for catfishing and my documentary is going to include a lot of information about twitter and facebook.
The social network
The social network is actually a film by Sony Pictures Entertainment. The movie is based on Mark Zuckerberg who is the creator of Facebook. The movie is a reconstruction of the story behind Mark making facebook as he got sued by two brother who claimed that Mark stole their idea for making the social media website.
The film is similar to my idea for my documentary as it is also based around social media. In the trailer from 0:00 to the 0:50 mark we see a lot of use of social media as throughout that whole time lapse as we see facebook being used in many different ways as we see people changing their statuses, images and relationship statuses. At 1:10 mark says 'talking about taking the entire experience of college and putting it online' so this was the basic idea behind making Facebook. It is also similar to my documentary as I will be basing many aspects on facebook and showing how it has developed over the years and how it is effecting teenagers.
The gadget show
The gadget show is a show which reviews gadgets regularly.
The show isn't really similar to my idea for my documentary however we could still say that it is similar in a way as it normally reviews technology and social media is used on technology.
Friday, 2 May 2014
Secondary Research for Final Idea
Five Key Questions
1) When did social media start taking effect as a whole?
The first email was actually sent in 1971 and the message which was sent was 'qwertyuiop'. However, the first social networking site was created 1994 and this site was named GeoCites. This website was created for users who wished to create and customise their own websites. Then the next year another website was launched and this site was named TheGlobe. This site had the availability for users to interact with other users who use the website to share their hobbies and interests.
So this was when social networking was established as the first sign of communication by computer systems.
AOL messenger started up in 1997 and this was the first initial site which was used being a social media site where people fully interact with each other
http://www.1stwebdesigner.com/design/history-social-networking/
http://www2.uncp.edu/home/acurtis/NewMedia/SocialMedia/SocialMediaHistory.html
2) What age range does social media effect the most?
Apon doing a lot of research I have found many different articles and facts about which age group uses social media the most, and this statistic stuck out the most to me as it is from the years of 2005 to 2013. This was useful to know as it tells you that it is in most recent times and it lets us know which ages of current people in the world are using the social media the most. Apon looking at the statistics carefully I found that the ages of 18 to 29 are the ages which contain the most social media users. This statistic was very useful to me as I gained information that most 18 and 19 year olds use a lot of social media websites and the good aspect is that those two ages were going to be included in my target audience for my documentary so when those two ages watch the documentary they will be able to visualise and relate to it.
http://www.pewinternet.org/fact-sheets/social-networking-fact-sheet/
3) How does social media effect teenagers psychologically?
I couldn't really find the correct information on this question as pretty much every article I found spoke about teenage victimization which is not quite what i was looking for
4) Which gender uses social media more?
For looking at which gender in the human race uses social media the most I had to do a lot of research, by doing this I found an interesting statistic which can be seen in the image above. The statistic actually tells us that women use social media more on cell phones which may come as a surprise to many people. The statistic tells us that 41% of women use social media on their cell phones and
http://www.pewinternet.org/fact-sheets/social-networking-fact-sheet/
5) How does it effect the teenagers spare time?
Apon doing research I found an article which provided me with good information in which what type of effects that social media has on teenagers. Above we see that social media sites are used to 'keep up with social ties' and what this quote means is that many teenagers use the social media websites to update themselves on what is going on in the world currently, so in another way, they use it to update them as being a news type source. I also found a strange fact which said that 'the average user of social networking site has more close ties and is half as likely to be socially isolated as the average American'
http://www.pewinternet.org/fact-sheets/social-networking-fact-sheet/
Apon doing research I found an article which provided me with good information in which what type of effects that social media has on teenagers. Above we see that social media sites are used to 'keep up with social ties' and what this quote means is that many teenagers use the social media websites to update themselves on what is going on in the world currently, so in another way, they use it to update them as being a news type source. I also found a strange fact which said that 'the average user of social networking site has more close ties and is half as likely to be socially isolated as the average American'
http://www.pewinternet.org/fact-sheets/social-networking-fact-sheet/
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