‘The Effects of Social Networking’
Members of our team:
- Haruka Fujimoto
- Shakeena Johnson (Shay)
- Alfie Rogers
- Danish Hussain
Task 3
For our documentary we will be showing the outside world of social networking the unspoken truth. We will focus on the topics that are fragile. We will also interview various bloggers and non-bloggers to get unbiased points of views. In order to give proof of the evidence, we will try to film certain interviews, adding live footage of online blogging will give a sense to reality for teenagers now.
Topics:
- Fashion
- Technology
- Sex
- Blogging
Fashion:
- What’s hot, what’s not
- Positive and negative
- Different styles and trends, from various clothing’s and accessories that feature on Tumblr
- Gives teenager’s ideas, confidence on what to wear and also even security.
Technology:
- On trend technology
- How people access the blogging sites via technology
- The impact technology has on the world
Sex:
- Usage on social networking sites
- How it effects the audience as well as influences them
- Positive and negative audiences
Blogging:
- Why people blog
- Positive and negative sides of blogging
- Impact it has on the world
Task 4 and Task 4a
Funding sources: (1 min)
The college will fund the documentary.
Staff: (2 min)
Haruka – Interviewer/Editor
Shay – Camera Operator/Editor
Alfie – Speaker/Researcher/Editor
Dan – Interviewer/Camera Operator/Editor
Interviews: In Class (3 min)
- Guler Ozdemir
- Darrian Steadman
- Natalie Williams
- Danish Hussain
- Narissa Roberts
- Ishmael Anderson
- Kyle Taylor
These interviewee’s are people who have both Twitter and Tumblr.
Interviews: Outside Class (1 min)
- Other Students in Westminster Kingsway College:-
- Dionne Brown
- DeVante Mauoul
- Siobhan-Marie Boothe
- Shadeen Thomas
- Staff Members:-
- Ade Anwar
- Roxanne Baptiste
- Mark Caffoor
Equipment Suppliers: (3 min)
The college will supply us with such equipment as:
- Camcorder
- Tripod
- Tripod Plate
- Headphones
- Microphones
- Fish Pole
Primary and Secondary Sources: (2 min)
Primary Source:-
- Forum chat rooms
- Websites
- Blogs
- Magazines
- Newspapers
Legal constraints and ethnical guidelines: (4 min)
- Statistics – Gender, Age, Race, Sexuality
- Adobe Youth Voices
- Legal documentation
Reblogged: The Effects of Social Networking is a 10-minute documentary that reveals the pros and cons of young people blogging; the documentary will focus on the images of people, which enhance their paranoia and insecurity based on their appearance.
The camera will show different perspectives on different blog users and will express their true emotions towards their own blog and those around them. Re-bloged will interview and focus on different age groups that actually have a blogs.
The documentary can get results by using the Internet to get evidence and proof of people trying to better how they look to compete with blog users images. The re-blogged team will email companies and get permission to use certain footage and images.
Re-blogged: The Effect of Social Networking is a reality documentary. It’s based on what really happens over the Internet and the positive and negative effects on people’s social lives of those using the blogs.
The documentary will need to use pictures to compare information with. The documentary is going to use a voice over to help the audience understand what stages they’re at and is also going to show evidence of people getting interviewed.
Task 5 – Individual Summary
Reblogged: The effects of social networking is a 10-minute documentary about blogging on social networking sites.
We reveal the pros and cons of young people blogging; the documentary will focus on the images of people, which enhance their paranoia and insecurity based on their appearance.
The equipment that is being used to film our documentary is of industry standards. The equipment that we will is a camcorder, a tripod, tripod plate, headphones, microphones and a fish pole.
In order to get our facts and information correct about blogging; especially on social networking sites like Tumblr and Twitter, we decided to research the company, the website and the users. We looked at statistics such as how many people use social networking sites.
When interviewing our interviewee’s, there will be certain questions that we will ask them to get a response. For example we will ask them if the have ever been affected by cyber-bullying or if they have ever cyber bullied themselves. Depending on the response from the person being interviewed, we will only feature the responses that are of a good enough standard.
The main theme of our documentary is investigative. We want to find out the effects and thoughts behind blogging; what happens after the damage of cyber-bulling has been done and how people feel about social networking.
Task 6 – Research
TWITTER:
Twitter is an online social networking service and micro blogging service that enables its users to send and read text-based posts of up to 140 characters, known as “tweets”. It was created in March 2006 by Jack Dorsey and launched that July. The service rapidly gained worldwide popularity, with over 300 million users as of 2011,generating over 300 million tweets and handling over 1.6 billion search queries per day.It has been described as “the SMS of the Internet.”
Statistics: Tweets Per Day
- In 2007 the average was 5,000 tweets per day.
- In 2008 that had grown to 300,000
- In 2009 tweets per day averaged 2.5 million.
- In 2010 that number was 35 million tweets per day.
- In the month of March 2011 alone, 140 million tweets are being sent on average per day.
- As of June 2011, users on Twitter are now averaging 200 million Tweets per day.
Twitter Demographics:
On September 7, 2011, Twitter announced that it has 100 million active users logging in at least once a month and 50 million active users every day.
In an article published on January 6th, 2012, Twitter was confirmed to be the biggest social media network in Japan, with Facebook following closely in second. comScore confirmed this, stating that Japan is the only country in the world where Twitter leads Facebook.
TUMBLR:
Tumblr is a microblogging platform and social networking website, owned and operated by Tumblr, Inc. The service allows users to post multimedia and other content to a short-form blog, named a “tumblelog.” Users can follow other users’ blogs, as well as make their blogs private. Much of the website’s features are accessed from the “dashboard” interface, where the option to post content and posts of followed blogs appear.
US Demographics on Tumblr:
The US is Tumblr’s highest source of traffic. We all know Tumblr skews to a young demographic, but perhaps most surprising is the 46% of Tumblr users over 35.
Also surprising is the more even split between male and female users (51%/49%), which I’d have guessed was skewed slightly more female.
Though the age brackets differ slightly, the comScore graph shows a more expected swing to the youth demographic, with half of Tumblr’s traffic coming from those under the age 25.
FACEBOOK:
Facebook is a social networking service and website launched in February 2004, operated and privately owned by Facebook Inc. As of February 2012, Facebook has more than 845 million active users. Users must register before using the site, after which they may create a personal profile, add other users as friends, and exchange messages, including automatic notifications when they update their profile.
Average users, figures and facts for Facebook:
- Average user has 130 friends on the site
- Average user sends 8 friend requests per month
- Average user spends an average 15 hours and 33 minutes on Facebook per month
- Average user visits the site 40 times per month
- Average user spends an 23 minutes (23:20 to be precise) on each visit
- Average user is connected to 80 community pages, groups and events
- Average user creates 90 pieces of content each month
- 200 million people access Facebook via a mobile device each day
- More than 30 billion pieces of content are shared each day
- Users than access Facebook on mobile devices are twice as active on Facebook compared to non-mobile users
- Facebook generates a staggering 770 billion page views per month
Myspace (previously styled as MySpace and My_____) is a social networking service owned by Specific Media LLC and pop star Justin Timberlake. Myspace launched in August 2003 and is headquartered in Beverly Hills, California. In August 2011, Myspace had 33.1 million unique U.S. visitors. Myspace was founded in 2003 and was acquired by News Corporation in July 2005 for $580 million. From 2005 until early 2008, Myspace was the most visited social networking site in the world, and in June 2006 surpassed Google as the most visited website in the United States. In April 2008, Myspace was overtaken by Facebook in the number of unique worldwide visitors, and was surpassed in the number of unique U.S. visitors in May 2009. Since then, the number of Myspace users has declined steadily in spite of several redesigns. As of December 2011, Myspace was ranked 138th by total web traffic.
| Statistic | Details | Date | Country | |
| 1 million | new users joined Myspace in 30 days in February | Feb-12 | Globally | Check our sources |
| 25 million | current registered users on Myspace | Feb-12 | Globally | Check our sources |
| 40, 000 | people a day signed up to Myspace since it introduced new ties with Twitter and Facebook | Feb-12 | Globally | Check our sources |
| $35 million | The amount Rupert Murdoch sold Myspace for in June-11. | Feb-12 | Globally | Check our sources |
| 42 million | songs in the Myspace catalogue | Feb-12 | Globally | Check our sources |
| 1.6 million | monthly active users of Myspace’s Facebook app. | Feb-12 | Globally | Check our sources |
| 900,000 | monthly active users of Myspace’s Facebook app. | Jan-12 | Globally | Check our sources |
http://www.quora.com/What-is-the-demographic-breakdown-of-Tumblr
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tumblr
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twitter
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Myspace
http://socialmediatoday.com/kenburbary/276356/facebook-demographics-revisited-2011-statistics
http://www.marketinggum.com/twitter-statistics-2011-updated-stats/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Facebook
http://www.b2bsocialmediaguide.com/category/social-stats/myspace-social-statistics/
Voice-over Script:
“Social networking sites are slowly taking over the world. Facebook, Twitter, Tumblr, MySpace; are just a few of the sites that are changing society”.
“¾ of the world’s population is affected by social networking near enough every day. Children and Teenagers are exposed to the harsh sides of social networking such as sex, violence, body conscious images and alcohol abuse”.
“On a weekly basis we hear from all different parts of world that people are being affected by cyber-bullying. The outcome of cyber-bulling leads to dramatic and very disturbing results such as murder and self-abuse.”
“At just a click of a button, you are have entered the world of social networking”
“Desperate to find out what people think about social networking, we have gone to Westminster Kingsway College to find out what people think and feel about social networking”
“But the question remains ‘What will the future hold for social networking?”.
Task 7: Contact List
Twitter:
Address:
Twitter, Inc.
795 Folsom St., Suite 600
San Francisco, CA 94107
Email: partner@twitter.com
Tumblr:
Address:
35 East 21st Street, 9th Floor.
New York, NY. 10010.
Email: support@tumblr.com and enquiries@tumblr.com
Task 8: Contact
The image above is proof that me and my team contacted both Twitter and Tumblr via email. We asked permission to use some of there images, footage and there logo in our documentary.
Task 9: Identified Subjects Being Interviewed
Task 10: Questions
- How often do you use social networking sites?
- Have you ever been affected by social networking in terms of cyber-bulling?
- What are your personal views on social networking?
- Do you have a Facebook, Twitter, MySpace or Tumblr?
- How often do you use these sites?
- What do you use these sites for; personal or business?
- Why did you create/make a social networking profile?
- When on these sites, do you look at anything provocative?
- What are your views on sex being featured on certain social networking sites such as Twitter and Tumblr? Do you think it’s a good thing or a bad thing?
- Are you easily influenced by pictures you see online?
- Are you affected by some of the images you see online?
- Do you think that social networking sites influence bad behaviour?
- How do you feel about cyber-bulling?
- Do you think celebrities such as Rihanna, Lady Gaga and Justin Bieber influence provocativeness as well as bad behaviour on twitter? (social networking sites in general)
- What do you think the future holds for social networking sites?
Task 12: Risk Assessment
My team and I held interviews all of over Westminster Kingsway College as well as Oxford Circus, Argyll Street, Kingly Court and Carnaby Street. When considering the risk assessment, we covered all aspects of Health and Safety. One of the places that we filmed for out documentary was the smoking area in Westminster Kingsway College. Because of all the outdoor equipment such as the table tennis platform and the benches and bins; we had to film in a area where there was nothing that could harm or potentially bring any kind of danger to ourselves and our interviewees. No more than 4 interviews took place outside.
We also filmed inside the college in such places as the balcony, classrooms, back of staircase and the hallway. All of these places are health and safety hazards for the general public. My team and I had to take serious precautions when it came to checking the safety areas. There were hardly any fire extinguishers or fire exit where we filmed some of our interviews however incase of an emergency there were staircases. The images below are camera pictures that me and my team took of the area we were filming. In the second image you can see that we had carefully placed the chair next to staircases incase of an emergency. The camera, which had several wires attached to it had to be positioned opposite the chair so that we could interview someone. An incident did occur whilst filming in this area. A lady tripped over some of the wires, which meant that we had to move. There was no space for the remaining public to walk.
In terms of safety, we filmed in area where fire extinguishers were present in case of a fire. Not only were fire extinguishers present but the instructions on how to use the fire extinguisher was there. There were several fire exits available for incase there was a fire. This made interviewing easier for my team because we had to take everybody’s safety into consideration. Once again we checked for things that could be considered a hazard and once we realised that everything was good then we continued to interview.
When it came to equipment such as the camera and headphones, we made sure that the wires were far away from the publics harm.
Task 13
- Logging Sheet
- Equipment List
- Schedule
- Budget
- Shot list
- Call Sheet
Meeting Minutes
Our team joined up together on the 24th January 2012 to have our first meeting for our documentary.
Date: Tuesday 24th January 2012
Time: 9-11AM
Info: We brainstormed ideas.
We came up with “re-blogged”
How long: 30minutes
Date: Tuesday 31st January 2012
Time: 9-11AM
Info: We gave everyone jobs to do I.E research ect
How long: 20minutes
Date: Tuesday 7th February 2012
Time: 9-11AM
Info: We gathered up together to talk about which audience we are aiming to approach and who we would interview.
How long: 20mins
Date: Tuesday 14th February 2012
Time: 9-11AM
Info: We decided to go around college and interview a range of students
How long: 1hour
Date: Tuesday 21st February 2012
Time: 9-11AM
Info: We went and interviewed a couple more students
How long: 45mins
Date: Tuesday 28th February 2012
Time: 9-11AM
Info: We gathered up as a team and set some more work for each member to complete
How long: 15mins
Date: Tuesday 6th march 2012
Time: 9-11AM
Info: We went as a team to gather some more research
How long: 1hour
Date: Tuesday 13th March 2012
Time: 9-11AM
Info: Came together as a group and made a decision to go to a busy place to interview a range of different people
How long: 10mins
Date: Tuesday 20th march 2012
Time: 9-11AM
Info: Couple members of the group went to west end and started filming
How long: 4hours
Date: Tuesday 27th march 2012
Time: 9-11AM
Info: We came as a group and put the footage we had onto the computer
How long: 1hour
Date: Tuesday 3rd April 2012
Time: 9-11AM
Info: Team had a meeting about other roles we could all take
How long: 20mins
Date: Tuesday 10th April 2012
Time: 9-11AM
Info: Completing all work
How long: 2hours
Date: Tuesday 17th April 2012
Time: 9-11AM
Info: Had a discussion meeting
How long: 15mins
Date: Tuesday 24th April 2012
Time: 9-11AM
Info: Finished up all work
How long : 2hours
Date: Tuesday 8th May 2012
Time: 9-11AM
Info: Handed in group work
How long: 1hour
Task 14
- Interviewer
An interviewer is someone who interviews people to get information / opinions out of them.
- Editor
An editor is someone who has 100% control of the footage that has been filmed. It is there job to make the final project look good.
- Camera Operator
An camera operator is someone who controls the camera on all aspects. Not only do they film with the camera, they also have complete control of the movement of the camera. Majority of the camera shots that are seen in films and documentary are down to the camera operator.
- Researcher
A researcher is someone who researches the information that will be displayed in the film, documentary or TV show. The find the facts that will be displayed to the audience for them to understand the project more seriously.
Edit Sheet
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