FILMING

I participated in the whole of the filming process. First of all we started off by filming a voxpop for our documentary, but the first issue we had with filming this was the framing of each shots, and this meant having to re-do filming for each person of the voxpop. After attempting to film a voxpop atleast 3 times, we decided to cut the vox pop out of the first 5 minutes of our documentary and not use it at all. Instead we replaced it with an interview with Jon Dutton about his raido show which he promotes on facebook. The two images below are of the filming process and the mise-en-scene when interviewing Jon.

We also filmed in the library of Weatherhead High School as we needed cutaways for our interview with Jules Hatchard as she talks about girls using the internet inaproppriatly in school, so we got shots of girls in the library using computers. We had no problems when filming in the library, as the shots we where getting where only for cutaways.

We then went on to film more cutaways in the common room of Weatherhead High School, as we wanted to show how students use different technologies in school such as laptops, mobiles, ipods etc and this would therefore be encorporated into the genre of our documentary.

Whilst filming the interivew with Jules Hatchard we had to re-take the filming 3 times. The first time the framing was incorrect and, we as the interviewers, where also positioned incorrectly as when Jules would look at us she would be looking upwards instead of directly next to the camera lens, which would be seen in a typical documentary interview. We also had various problems with microphones as one we used did not work, and this caused more trouble as we had to postpone the interview just to get a different microphone to use. However the third time filiming things ran smoothly as we had learnt from our past mistakes when filming the interview.
Below is evidence of the mise-en-scene with the Jules interview

We went to a local area in Wallasey, called Liscard, and filmed cutaways of people using various technologies in the street, mostly the use of mobile phones. This was to exaggerate the main question of our documentary, which is, is everybody becoming obsessed with using the internet? And as people can now use internet on their mobiles, we wanted to show this through cutaways.
Below is evidence of me and the rest of my group filming in Liscard forcutaways for our documentary.

PLANNING - interview questions for documentary

Jules interview – i.t expert

1. What do you think the negative and positive aspects are of using the internet?
2. What procedures do you take into filtering sites in schools?
3. Have you come across any incidence in schools of pupils using the internet for the wrong purposes?
4. Do you think there should be an age limit on social networking sites?
5. Do you think social networking sites have changed communication in a good or bad way?


Hippies on the hill interview (unsigned band trying to launch their career through myspace)

1. Why did you choose myspace?
2. When did you set up your myspace page? And why did you choose to do it at this time?
3. What influence do you think your myspace page has had on your music career?
4. Has having a myspace page always been a positive thing or have you ever experienced any problems? (such as negative feedback if so can you please explain or give examples)
5. Is myspace the only social networking site you have as a band?
6. Has your myspace page generated fan base?
7. Have you had any interest from record companies through your myspace page?
8. Do you/why don’t you go through traditional ways of promoting yourselves as a band?

PLANNING - running order

10 sec- Montage of news paper article concerning social networking sites

10 sec- Opening titles (virtual insanity?) typed out as if on a computer screen with white text and a black back ground.

20 sec-voice over introducing topic further- clips of people using ipods, texting, using computers (isolation)

1 min- Interview with Jules (I.T expert) talking about the effects of the internet and social networking sites in school.

1 min- Interview with Jon Dutton radio presenter about how he uses facebook in order to promote his radio show and how he uses it to get suggestions and ideas etc.

20 sec-Montage of myspace pages (music pages) and shots of Lilly Allen's page and the video smile with voice over coming in slightly later explaining how myspace launched her career.

1 min- Hippies on the Hill interview (unsigned band) and their myspace page and how they hope it will help launch their career further.

1 min- voice over introducing next feature- The reconstruction of a paedophile using msn to talk to young girls and how deceiving pictures can be and how easy it is to pretend you are someone else.


30 seconds - clip from ‘How to Catch a Paedophile’ which was shown on ITV about paedophiles being tricked online by police and then getting caught

1 minute - interview with policeman (in his office) about dealing with paedophiles on the internet

30 seconds - voice over introducing story of Vanessa George who was recently on the news. Non diagetic sound of children laughing and playing in background

1 minute - clip of an interview with one of the parents whose child was abused by
Vanessa George

1 minute - voice over moves on to explaining the creation and success of Facebook

40 seconds - interview with one of the creators of Facebook about the ‘law’s and policies of using Facebook

1 minute - voice over then moves on to explain the success of MySpace – as it is not just Facebook that is successful. Shots of MySpace pages in the background

1 minute - voice over explaining the younger generation who use Bebo and explaining how Bebo attracts the younger audience

20 seconds - shot of people in the street shopping etc, voice over explaining a survey carried out of which social networking sites people prefer to use

1 minute - voxpop of general public (different genders, ages) answering survey question

90 seconds - voice over talking about the celebrities who now use social networking site Twitter e.g. Katie Price. Shot of her Television programme ‘What Katie did next’ where she is talking about using Twitter

2 minutes - interview with Katie Price about her Twitter account and how it influences her fans and how the press uses what she says on Twitter against her

1 minute - voice over describing the exploitation of Michael Jackson’s death through the internet e.g. celebs on Twitter

10 seconds - shot of article of Holly Grogan who committed suicide over online bullying

1 minute - zoom onto Holly Grogan’s face, voice over explaining the story behind her suicide

2 minutes - interview with parents of Holly Grogan

2 minutes - interview with Holly’s school teacher

50 seconds - home footage of Holly Grogan before death

1 minute - interview with policeman about dealing with online bullying

2 minutes - cuts between parents/ teacher interviews and the article to show the overall
conclusion about the dangers of using the internet and the effects in which it has – ending credits

PLANNING - Audience Research Questionnaire and Results

This is a photograph of somebody who would be a member of the target audience of our documentary.

"My name is Susan, I'm 48 years old and am married with 3 children, aged 15, 19 and 22. I work in admin in a secondary school, and in my spare time I enjoy socialising and spending time with my family. I usually watch television at around 8pm, as that is when the programmes which I want to watch are on."




Audience Research


1. Age: 25 – 30

31 - 35

36 – 40

40 +

2. Occupation: ____________________________________________________

3. Which colour do you prefer?

Blue Green Red Yellow Pink Black

None of the above

4. Which type of music do you prefer?

Rock Pop Country Classical


5. Which TV channels do you regularly watch and when? __________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
_____________________________________________________________________

6. How often do you use the internet?

Everyday Every few days Once a week

Once every few weeks

7. a) Are you aware of different social networking sites on the internet?

Yes No

If yes, list the ones which you know.
_______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

b) Do you have your own account on a social networking site?

Yes No



If yes, which sites?
__________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
_____________________________________________________________________

8. a) Are you a parent?

Yes No

If yes, how often do you allow your child to use the internet and why?
____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

b) Do you have any concerns when your child is using the internet?

Yes No

If yes, what are your concerns?

c) Do you limit your child’s time when using the internet?

Yes No

If yes, explain why.
_________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

9. If not a parent, which do you think are the main dangers of using the internet and why?
____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

10. Which do you think are the positive factors of using the internet and why?
____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

10. Which do you think are the negative factors of using the internet and why?
____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________








the majority of the people in which we interviewed where over 40, therefore we may use this age range as the target audience

This graph shows the occupations of the people who we asked to fill out our questionnaire. It shows that we have 9 teachers this may affect the results of further questions however it will be helpful for our interviews and the target audience as in our documentary we will be interviewing teachers and people who work in a school.

We found that the majority of people we interviewed preferred to listen to pop music; therefore we will use this genre of music in our documentary

This graph shows that people mainly watch BBC 1 therefore we will consider this as a channel for our documentary as our target audience from 25-40+ do regularly watch BBC 1 therefore our documentary may be something they choose to watch.

These results show that the majority of people we interviewed use the internet everyday, and this will have a significant part in our documentary

This chart shows that Facebook is the most used site, and this plays an important role in our documentary as it shows that our documentary is mainly based around the subject of Facebook

This graph shows that the majority of the people we asked were parents, I think that this is good as during our documentary we are considering interviewing a parent and what they’re views are of social networking sites therefore this may attract our audience who our parents.

The pie chart shows that the majority of the people said yes, however a lot of people also said no, which shows the opinions are balanced

This graph shows the answers of our audience who are not parents and what they think are the main dangers of using the internet. It shows that even though they are not parents and don’t have to worry that they are

This graph shows that the majority of people who we asked thought that bulling was the biggest problem with the internet therefore we will consider using this as a part of our content for our documentary.

This chart shows that keeping in touch is the most positive factor of using the internet, therefore we will include this in our content.