WRD Documentary

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0CoFeg2nMX8&feature=g-crec-u

Short Essay:

For my documentary, my topic was on Twitter and my argument was about the people who you decide to follow and if it is a reflection on you.  I interviewed a few people and had them talk about the reasons why they follow certain people and if the people who they chose to follow have a reflection upon them. This was my argument in this project. I got pretty good shots and film for this but if I had more time I think I could have interviewed more people and got more shots. I interviewed these girls who became best friends from meeting on Twitter. I was glad that worked out and that I have found people who actually follow each other who didn’t know each other but ended up being friends. I wanted to interview more people but that didn’t work because a lot of people that I had asked didn’t want to speak in front of a camera. If I had more time I probably would have liked to get shots of people around campus interacting with each other and have them talking about my topic. I would have liked to film them having a conversation with each other about my topic so it looks very natural and maybe easier for people to talk with the camera in their face. I achieved in having a good amount of people talk about the topic and who they follow and why it is a reflection upon them and who they like to surround themselves with. I came up short with shots so it is mostly just people talking. I wanted to have their voices over the pictures I added but that didn’t work for me to well. All my questions in this was answered and I believe that my argument in my documentary is clear and understanding and something that will catch other’s attention.

Shooting Schedule

I plan to start filming for my documentary on Monday and get as much shots as I can on that day and Tuesday. I want to be done with the interviews by friday. I have four people in mind that I want to interview next week. The week after that I plan on starting the narration that I plan on using in the film.
The questions that I have in mind that I am going to ask are:
Why do you follow people who you do not know?
Why do you not follow people who you do know?
Do you follow people who you do not like? If so why?
Why do you unfollow people?
What does this say about you?
What makes you want to start communicating with someone you know nothing about?
Have you met friends on Twitter? How?

Scrpit Rough Draft

For my documentary I am going to interview a few people and have them talk about the reasons why they follow people they do not know or like on Twitter and why they do not follow back people they do know and why do they unfollow people. I am going to be filming them sometime next week. I am not sure how many people I am going to interview. I am also going to interview people who became friends off of Twitter. The interviews will take place around campus. I want to take a few shots of the campus and maybe some shots of Twitter if I can and do some narration over some of this. I am hoping that their answers will explain the reasons behind the follow button on Twitter and if it really tells the people who we like to surround ourselves with.

Final Documentary Proposal

For my documentary, I am going to find out why people choose to follow certain people on Twitter and why they do not follow other people back. I am going to find out why people follow others who they do not know or never met. What makes you want to follow people you do not know but not follow people you do know? What makes people want to unfollow others? Why do you continue to follow someone who doesn't follow you back? My audience is going to be UK freshmen. I plan on interviewing college freshmen on campus to get the information that I need. I want to ask people if they follow back everybody that follows them and if not, why. I will be asking why they follow people they do not know and if so have they ever met them in person. If I can I would like to find people who actually became friends on Twitter. I want to ask them what made them follow each other since they didn't know each other at all. I want them to let us know how did they start talking to each other and did they feel like friends before actually meeting. Another thing I would like to know is if they appeared the same in person from what you thought of them on Twitter. What made them want to meet in person?  I will be shooting the documentary all around the campus and take some shots outdoors as well as indoors. I plan on talking to the people that I became friends with on Twitter and ask them these questions. I would like to talk to my followers and the people that I follow and film them being interviewed. 

This is important because I want the audience to know that the people who you follow may tell who you want to surround yourself with or have things in common with or who you want to be. What does this say about you?

My thesis will be if you can’t change the people around you, CHANGE the people around you. If you don’t like a person that you follow you can easily change that by unfollowing them. It is like choosing the people that you surround yourself with. You can change it by a click of a button.

I can arrange the footage by first talking about this topic, showing shots of the campus and then showing the people I am going to interview. The last part of the documentary I want to show people telling the story of the friend or friends they met on Twitter without knowing them first. If I can I would like to have both of them together in  the footage talking about how did they became connected over a social site.

I plan on doing all the filming within a week or two. This should be enough time to get all the footage that I will need to use for this documentary.

Documentary Proposal

For my documentary, I want to find out if people act a certain way on Twitter than they do in person and why. What makes them want to appear on Twitter a different person than who they really are? Are they trying to be someone who they can’t be in person? I want to know why some people decide to make their pages private and why some decide to keep theirs public. When you set your Twitter to private you decide who can follow you. I want to know do they not feel comfortable letting a stranger view their tweets and they ones that keep theirs public they must not care.   Along with this I want to know why people choose to follow certain people and why they do not follow other people back. I am going to find out why people follow others who they do not know or never met. What makes you want to follow people who you do not know or don’t follow people back who you do know? What makes people want to unfollow others? Why do you continue to follow someone who doesn't follow you back? I want to find out if Twitter is only used among college and high school students. Why is it popular among younger generations. I plan on interviewing people on campus to get the information that I need. If I can, I would like to interview people back home. I want to ask people if they follow back everybody that follows them and if not, why. I will be asking why they follow people they do not know and if so have they ever met them in person. If I can I would like to find people who actually became friends on Twitter. I want to ask them what made them follow each other since they didn't know each other at all. I want them to let us know how did they start talking to each other and did they feel like friends before actually meeting. Another thing I would like to know is if they appeared the same in person from what you thought of them on Twitter. What made them want to meet in person? I will be shooting the documentary around the campus and take some shots outdoors as well as indoors. I plan on talking to the people that I became friends with on Twitter and ask them these questions. I would like to talk to my followers and the people that I follow and film them being interviewed. 

Link to Movie

http://youtu.be/frm0NemSrKE

Works Cited

http://www.google.com/imgres?hl=en&sa=G&biw=1366&bih=600&tbm=isch&tbnid=quh7wxDcc9WzIM:&imgrefurl=http://www.sheknows.com/love-and-sex/articles/824685/relationship-rules-for-facebook&docid=Z344KTWOgo7pVM&imgurl=http://cdn.sheknows.com/articles/2011/03/facebook_heart.png&w=256&h=256&ei=vXuPUK6_DKnC0QGEjYFw&zoom=1&iact=rc&dur=2&sig=118041852940583496692&page=1&tbnh=136&tbnw=132&start=0&ndsp=20&ved=1t:429,i:92&tx=568&ty=290

http://www.greenlights.org/blog/2011/03/31/how-i-learned-to-stop-worrying-and-love-twitter/i-love-twitter/

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MOh3hNqiof4

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r0EF4nqhNHY

Dark days

This documentary “Dark Day” really connects to the audience and has a clear message. This showed a lot of detail. The characters show and talk about how they became homeless and their struggles through all of this. They talk about all they have been through and their struggles and hustles to make it and survive through the bad times during that part of their life. They all lived in a dark tunnel right near a train. This documentary shows them from the bottom and them trying to make it in life. They were barely surviving. Finally you see them happy when they each get an apartment of their own. They got an opportunity in life to live better. They started out on the bottom and worked their way up to the top.

The color through this whole documentary was black and white. These colors are dark, dull, plain and boring. These colors represent them living in a dark and dull and plain place with lives that were not exciting. The intense music during these frames shows the lives of these guys and how they just dragged. At the end the music is more happy because they get their own homes. They were not living exiting lives and color brings excitement. Black, white, and gray are not exciting and happy colors. This is why this goes with the shots in this documentary. They were showing their ways to the camera and their everyday struggles. Just being themselves.

The guy talks about how he ended up living the way he did. He says how he was scared at first then realized that no one goes into tunnels anyway because they are scared of what is down there so he somewhat felt like no one was going to mess with them even though they had to deal with the rats. He talks about how leaving in the tunnel he didn't have to worry about things you would have to worry about if he was living in an apartment. He didn't have to worry about paying bills and could basically do whatever he wanted and didn't have to worry about anything. He liked living like this.

After living like this for years the end shows them tearing up and destroying their place in by the tracks. They are moving on to a better life and going to have their own homes. The moods in the documentary change. They are living better and happier lives and never want to go back to the homeless life again.

Just like the other documentaries that we have watched in class, this one leaves you wondering what happens next in their lives. This one leaves me wondering if they continue to be happy with the changes in their lives. It is different because of the tone and mood. This one is black and white throughout the whole thing.