Thursday 14 October 2010
Evalution of the first documentary.
The documentary was filmed rather badly as there was no head space given and half there heads were cut out. Also I think the editing was bad as it was very jumpy and sometimes cut out halfway through a word. The graphics were rather poor as they had no backround and sound to them and they were static which looked very amature. There were no voice overs or archive footage which meant it was not a mixed documentary. The introduction i feel was good as it gave the audience a good idea as to what the documentary was going to be about. What I think was used well was thje cutaways as they came inbetween interviews and were relevant e.g someone answering a phone and this was good because of the low angle shot making them look big and dominant.
Interview Questions
Melanie Walsh
1. Do you have a social networking website?
2. Did you used to?
3. Why did you delete it?
4. Did you get a bad reply?
5. what do you use the internet for now?
6. Do you feel you have more spare time now?
7. Has it enhanced your life at all?
8. How do you feel about your children using it?
Mary Pennal
1. Do you have a social networking account
2. Have you managed to get in touch with anyone from your past?
3. Do you think that this is a good way to spend time?
4. When did you decide to get it?
5. Were you recommended to use it by everyone?
6. how much time do you spend on it?
7. Are you aware of the cons of social networking like cyber bullying and illegal addresses.
8. Has this made you think differently about social networking?
Harri Clark
1. Do you use social networking?
2. What do you use it for?
3. Are your parents aware of this?
4. What do they think you use it for?
5. If they knew this was why you used it would they let you use it?
6. Have you always been allowed to use it?
7. How old were you when they let you use it?
8. Are you aware that things like cyber bullying go on on social networking sites?
9. Has this made you think differently about using social networking?
Christine Smith
1.Do you use social netwrking?
2.What social networking sites do you use?
3.How long do you spend on a social network if you use one?
4.If you do not use one then why not?
5.Have you ever considered being part of one?
6.Do you have children?
7.If yes then are you aware of what can happen on social networking sites?
8.Have you ever recieved unwanted requests while on a swocial networking site?
9.Do you know about viruses and what they can do to your computer?
Ict Technician man
1.Do use social networking sites at home?
2.Do you ever use them while working in the college?
3.Have you ever had any interuptions with the netowork because of social networking sites?
4.Has anybody ever used social netoworking sites in college?
5.Would you ever consider unblocking social networking sites?
6.What is your favourite social networking site?
7.How long do you spend browsing social networking sites?
1. Do you have a social networking website?
2. Did you used to?
3. Why did you delete it?
4. Did you get a bad reply?
5. what do you use the internet for now?
6. Do you feel you have more spare time now?
7. Has it enhanced your life at all?
8. How do you feel about your children using it?
Mary Pennal
1. Do you have a social networking account
2. Have you managed to get in touch with anyone from your past?
3. Do you think that this is a good way to spend time?
4. When did you decide to get it?
5. Were you recommended to use it by everyone?
6. how much time do you spend on it?
7. Are you aware of the cons of social networking like cyber bullying and illegal addresses.
8. Has this made you think differently about social networking?
Harri Clark
1. Do you use social networking?
2. What do you use it for?
3. Are your parents aware of this?
4. What do they think you use it for?
5. If they knew this was why you used it would they let you use it?
6. Have you always been allowed to use it?
7. How old were you when they let you use it?
8. Are you aware that things like cyber bullying go on on social networking sites?
9. Has this made you think differently about using social networking?
Christine Smith
1.Do you use social netwrking?
2.What social networking sites do you use?
3.How long do you spend on a social network if you use one?
4.If you do not use one then why not?
5.Have you ever considered being part of one?
6.Do you have children?
7.If yes then are you aware of what can happen on social networking sites?
8.Have you ever recieved unwanted requests while on a swocial networking site?
9.Do you know about viruses and what they can do to your computer?
Ict Technician man
1.Do use social networking sites at home?
2.Do you ever use them while working in the college?
3.Have you ever had any interuptions with the netowork because of social networking sites?
4.Has anybody ever used social netoworking sites in college?
5.Would you ever consider unblocking social networking sites?
6.What is your favourite social networking site?
7.How long do you spend browsing social networking sites?
Friday 8 October 2010
Audience research
QUESTIONARE
SOCIAL NETWORKING!
1.How old are you?
0-10
11-20
21-30
31+
2.Are you:
Male?
Female?
Whats your favourite tv channel and why? ->
What time do you watch television? ->
What do you use social networking for? ->
What day do you watch t.v the most? ->
Which social networking sites do you use? ->
How has social networking enhanced your life? ->
SOCIAL NETWORKING!
1.How old are you?
0-10
11-20
21-30
31+
2.Are you:
Male?
Female?
Whats your favourite tv channel and why? ->
What time do you watch television? ->
What do you use social networking for? ->
What day do you watch t.v the most? ->
Which social networking sites do you use? ->
How has social networking enhanced your life? ->
Conclusion
Most people we researched were aged between 11-20 and watched ITV1 at 9 pm on a monday so thats when we will show our documentary.
Thursday 7 October 2010
Monday 4 October 2010
The codes and conventions of documenteries
-The interviewees eye line is a third of the way down the screen.
-The backround of the interview is relivant.
-Cutaways are used regularly.
-The people are usualy on 1 side of the screen.
-Some documentaries use fades inbetween interviews.
-All documentaries use archive footage.
-All use graphics to identify people.
-The lights are always behind the camera.
-Theres a voice overs used.
-Music beds are used.
-Mise-en-scene is always relivant.
-Theres usualy location shots.
-Theres always a clear begining, middle and end.
-The voice over is always relivant.
-Variety used for interviews.
-Mostly mixed.
-Cut aways are relivant.
-Theres always varietys of camera angles used.
-They all have opening title sequences.
-There are no questions posed on screen.
-The backround of the interview is relivant.
-Cutaways are used regularly.
-The people are usualy on 1 side of the screen.
-Some documentaries use fades inbetween interviews.
-All documentaries use archive footage.
-All use graphics to identify people.
-The lights are always behind the camera.
-Theres a voice overs used.
-Music beds are used.
-Mise-en-scene is always relivant.
-Theres usualy location shots.
-Theres always a clear begining, middle and end.
-The voice over is always relivant.
-Variety used for interviews.
-Mostly mixed.
-Cut aways are relivant.
-Theres always varietys of camera angles used.
-They all have opening title sequences.
-There are no questions posed on screen.
Research for documentary
We will be interviewing a woman called Melanie Clark in her house and in terms of Mise-en-scene we will have a laptop next to her which will be logged into facebook. We will use little sound clips from social networking sites like the facebook sound clip.and show news reports on 'facestalking' also we will put the trailer to social networking in it.
Facebook was launched in February 2004 that it is operated and privatly owned by facebook inc.
I selected this information from the source because they are clear facts.
www.wikipedia.org
Facebook user was jailed for child porn network, he shared over 100,000 indecent images of young people.
news.karameloo.com/.../facebook-user-jailed-for-child-porn-network/
Bebo was launched in july 2005. From march 2008 to June 2010 AOL owned the social network site. On Bebo you can post music, wall posts, photos and questionaires.
www.wikipedia.org
Twitter was intoduced publically on July 15 2006. Twitter enables users to send and read other messages called tweets.
Twitter is owned by a company called Obvious.
www.wikipedia.org
http://wiki.answers.com/Q/Who_owns_Twitter
Myspace was founded in Santa Monica California in 2003. It has just 1000 employees with the social networking site reaching 66 million accounts.
www.wikipedia.org
According to a few internet projects myspace is the most dominant social netowrking among teens, used by 85% of teenagers who use social networks.
www.life123.com
Facebook was launched in February 2004 that it is operated and privatly owned by facebook inc.
I selected this information from the source because they are clear facts.
www.wikipedia.org
Facebook user was jailed for child porn network, he shared over 100,000 indecent images of young people.
news.karameloo.com/.../facebook-user-jailed-for-child-porn-network/
Bebo was launched in july 2005. From march 2008 to June 2010 AOL owned the social network site. On Bebo you can post music, wall posts, photos and questionaires.
www.wikipedia.org
Twitter was intoduced publically on July 15 2006. Twitter enables users to send and read other messages called tweets.
Twitter is owned by a company called Obvious.
www.wikipedia.org
http://wiki.answers.com/Q/Who_owns_Twitter
Myspace was founded in Santa Monica California in 2003. It has just 1000 employees with the social networking site reaching 66 million accounts.
www.wikipedia.org
According to a few internet projects myspace is the most dominant social netowrking among teens, used by 85% of teenagers who use social networks.
www.life123.com
Formal proposal for documentary
Our documentary is based on social networking, this will investigate how these websites work, how popular they are in today’s society and open the audiences mind wether they are beneficial or negative. We will present these topics through evidence; hearing real experiences in interviews and stories in the media.
The documentary will be mixed, meaning we will include a large variety of media used to present social networking, including evidence, interviews, archive footage, narration and observation. This will all be presented through quite an informal style, so the audience will feel comfortable watching the documentary as they will feel they can relate to the narrator, and overall taking on the information we give them.
Due to the fact our documentary is about social networking, after research we realised this subject is most popular and important to teens. A large majority of the youth use websites such as ‘Facebook’ on a daily basis, so we have selected our target audience at 16-24. Having this target audience means the channel and scheduling is vital to gain the largest amount of viewers, to achieve the biggest possible impact from our documentary. After research, we found public of the age 16-24 usually watch television throughout the weekday nights and the most popular channel was ITV1, resulting in our documentary being shown at 9pm on ITV1 on a Monday night.
We needed to know as much information as possible about social networking not only on a wide scale but also in our own community, so we started our primary research. We began by creating a simple questionnaire to build knowledge on which networking websites were popular and what age range used which, so we asked a range of ages if they used social networking, if so how often, and after doing this we researched similar questions on the internet, here we could compare both results and calculate an overall average.
After gaining our basic knowledge on social networking, we were then able to accumulate this knowledge and explore in greater depth the pros and cons of networking and research in detail the impact it has on today’s society. To do this we interviewed parents, teens and IT technicians to see there own personal ideas and experiences towards social networking. We also developed our knowledge be using secondary research, here we looked into the presentation of social networking in the media, soaps and discovered some interesting stories on the news. By using the internet I could research into stories in which social networking has been life changing, involving websites such as "Match.com."
The documentary will open with several vox pops naming a variety of social networking sites by the public, who will be older and younger. This will show to the viewer exactly how social networking affects such a broad range of the public. Following this, the narrator will talk about how social networking has progressed over the years and how it has become such a big part of everyday life. In the middle section of our documentary it will be packed with information through interviews, narration and archive footage. This will explore in depth how social networking has affected lives individually and the viewer will also see peoples own personal opinions to networking. Towards the end we will throw in conflict by asking whether social networking is a negative concept, this will be emphasised with real stories from the media and a parents interview on their own bad experience. Although we will add this conflict, we will finish the documentary on an open ending, perhaps with a rhetorical question which will leave the viewer to conclude.
To present our observation of social networking we will include in our documentary;
• Interviews with parents/teens/teachers/general public and IT technicians
• Archive footage and images from the media and news
• Stories shown in soaps related to social networking
• Voice over from a younger adult
• Vox pops from a large selection of the public
Finally, to film out documentary there is a requirement on resources available to use. In the filming, we will be using;
• A camera
• Tripod
• Tape
Props that will be used in our documentary include;
The documentary will be mixed, meaning we will include a large variety of media used to present social networking, including evidence, interviews, archive footage, narration and observation. This will all be presented through quite an informal style, so the audience will feel comfortable watching the documentary as they will feel they can relate to the narrator, and overall taking on the information we give them.
Due to the fact our documentary is about social networking, after research we realised this subject is most popular and important to teens. A large majority of the youth use websites such as ‘Facebook’ on a daily basis, so we have selected our target audience at 16-24. Having this target audience means the channel and scheduling is vital to gain the largest amount of viewers, to achieve the biggest possible impact from our documentary. After research, we found public of the age 16-24 usually watch television throughout the weekday nights and the most popular channel was ITV1, resulting in our documentary being shown at 9pm on ITV1 on a Monday night.
We needed to know as much information as possible about social networking not only on a wide scale but also in our own community, so we started our primary research. We began by creating a simple questionnaire to build knowledge on which networking websites were popular and what age range used which, so we asked a range of ages if they used social networking, if so how often, and after doing this we researched similar questions on the internet, here we could compare both results and calculate an overall average.
After gaining our basic knowledge on social networking, we were then able to accumulate this knowledge and explore in greater depth the pros and cons of networking and research in detail the impact it has on today’s society. To do this we interviewed parents, teens and IT technicians to see there own personal ideas and experiences towards social networking. We also developed our knowledge be using secondary research, here we looked into the presentation of social networking in the media, soaps and discovered some interesting stories on the news. By using the internet I could research into stories in which social networking has been life changing, involving websites such as "Match.com."
The documentary will open with several vox pops naming a variety of social networking sites by the public, who will be older and younger. This will show to the viewer exactly how social networking affects such a broad range of the public. Following this, the narrator will talk about how social networking has progressed over the years and how it has become such a big part of everyday life. In the middle section of our documentary it will be packed with information through interviews, narration and archive footage. This will explore in depth how social networking has affected lives individually and the viewer will also see peoples own personal opinions to networking. Towards the end we will throw in conflict by asking whether social networking is a negative concept, this will be emphasised with real stories from the media and a parents interview on their own bad experience. Although we will add this conflict, we will finish the documentary on an open ending, perhaps with a rhetorical question which will leave the viewer to conclude.
To present our observation of social networking we will include in our documentary;
• Interviews with parents/teens/teachers/general public and IT technicians
• Archive footage and images from the media and news
• Stories shown in soaps related to social networking
• Voice over from a younger adult
• Vox pops from a large selection of the public
Finally, to film out documentary there is a requirement on resources available to use. In the filming, we will be using;
• A camera
• Tripod
• Tape
Props that will be used in our documentary include;
Initial plans
We will use the topic of social networking, And will be aiming for young adults in the region of (16-25). We are going to air it on ITV1 scheduled at late night because our results showed this was the favourate terestrial channel and time of our target audience. We will call it 'social networking: good or bad?'
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