Shooting Schedule

I plan to do most of my filming on Saturday around noon and carry the latter half of my filming into next week, however, all filming will be done by Wednesday evening so I can review my film and begin putting my documentary together. Most of my filming is going to take place in the Kirwan tower, since that is where my friends live. There, I will be interviewing my friends Shauntionne and Je'Esha. Shauntionne is someone who is very social but uses social media minimally, while Je'Esha is social but never uses any social media. During the week, I plan to interview Whitney at Blazer or, weather permitting, outside. Whitney uses social media a lot. I want to interview people on both ends of the spectrum (and in the middle) so that I can easily recognize their personality differences and analyze the role that social media plays for them in communicating. Over the break, I am going to interview my dad. He is the ultimate Facebooker, and I want to ask him about any instances in which he may have experienced some type of miscommunication on Facebook. I also plan on asking him about the ways in which social media has helped him reconnect with friends and perhaps made him more vocal.

Honestly, I feel like when I write my ideas down, I'm kind of all over the place. I want to highlight the ways in which social media takes away from communication, but I also want to look at how it is really helpful for those who are shy, and how it reopens (or continues) communication between old friends. Maybe I'll start off my documentary by looking at the negative aspects of social media and end with giving my audience hope by looking at the positive aspects of it.

Revised Documentary Proposal

For my documentary, I plan to examine the major personality differences between those who frequently use or depend on social media and those who refrain from using it or use it minimally. I expect to find that those who use social media frequently are a) very social and outgoing or b) people who have a difficult time communicating in person. Furthermore, I expect that people who don't use social media often are perhaps busier than those who do or just simply well-informed via watching the news and keeping in touch with relatives.

The importance of this documentary is in the idea that verbal communication is changing. People are becoming less social and personable as a result of depending on texting and Twitter. Speaking is a skill that fewer and fewer people have now. Twitter and text messaging reduce our language to less than 200 characters, forcing us to omit letters from words and exclude important details from messages. Let's not forget to mention people are speaking in IM!

My audience is UK freshmen, specifically those who rely heavily on social media. I want people to see the effect that Facebook and Twitter have had on our society’s language.

I plan to shoot a few scenes in the dorm rooms or possibly at the library to have a personal interview with my subjects and find out why they do or do not use social media frequently and how their personality differs from a person who does the opposite. I’m hoping that I can film a shot of girls saying, "OMG" or "IDK." Also, I want to film some shots of my shy person texting or instant messaging a family member or friend as opposed to calling them. My goal is to shape my documentary to show the potential negative long-term results of using Facebook and Twitter too much.