Documentary

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http://youtu.be/com3MnJo1LQ

Script/Video Capturing Analysis

My documentary will be on the difference in identities that we portray in real life, and on the social media site, Facebook. I will be walking around filming about five different people in their normal/average-day lives. I will ask questions for them to answer, and I will also be following them without them knowing, so that they can show who they really are, instead of being picturesque in front of a camera. I will be filming around campus and the local areas, seeing how people act in different scenarios, and how they act around certain people. I plan on starting production here on Friday and filming through Monday, getting as much footage as possible, for heavy editing through the thanksgiving break. We all form our personalities and ideas based on other people and social media, so what will it look like when we take both our inner-person, and external-personalities and showcase both, separately?

Proposal for Documentary

Who?: This will be addressing all people who hide behind the identity of a profile picture, and a personality that is shaped by recent social media and peers. I will be interviewing different people of different backgrounds showing how they act on a daily level, compared to how their Facebooks and Twitter accounts reflect their lifestyle.

Where?: I will be filming around campus and around the dorms.

What?: Thesis: Who are we and how are we apparent to people who don't know us? It helps us understand about the fake identities and personalities that we are surrounded by, every day we are logged onto a social networking site that ties with an identity that is shaped by not only peer pressure, but social acceptance.

When?: Nov, 9-12, I can probably manage most of the camera shots through this period, but I may have to pick up another 4 day weekend after thanksgiving, after I can edit and tweak the footage I will have already shot.

Why?: It affects all of us who have to read and see these false identities. We are the ones that have to deal with seeing all the mean, hateful, and one sided stories; we see all the dirty and creepy pictures; and we are the ones that have to put up with the constant flow of friend-requests from people we not only have no idea who they are, but also from weird third-world countries.

How?: Probably initially starting with following the people around, filming their everyday lives, and how they talk and interact with people, then wrapping it up with showing some Facebook and Twitter posts that reflect how they act, and talk. Showing how different/similar they act towards their True Identity.

Response to "Dark Days" Documentary

The first thing that jumped out to me from this documentary, was how it was shot in all black and white. It adds this effect to where you can't look through the lines. It almost seems as if they want to throw these homeless people, where they live, and how they live, right at the viewer.

The characters and people that were in this documentary were very diverse in the sense of homelessness. A few of them had direct problems with Cocaine and other hard drugs. One of the characters in the video said that almost 80% of the people down there are addicted to cocaine and other hard drugs, and maybe even more!

It wasn't that the different people were idiots, some of them could actually talk, be literate, and be able to form sentences without going on and on. One of the people (You could easily tell by how much he cooked) loved to cook. He was always looking for food, for ways of seasoning, and using tricks he had learned.

The director had shot a lot of footage of a train going by really fast and loudly, as well as a lot of video of rats and mice running across the ground. I feel like the train was to signify that they were extremely close to civilization, and people. Almost as if they were slowly becoming closer and closer to regular (home-owning) people. The rats made the place seem even more dirty and grungier. It made it seem as if there was grime, and food everywhere; that it was completely unsanitary and no one should live there.

WRD Video

Response To Video Game Article

Wow! That article was incredible, playing with all of the mind-tricks, and showing how sounds, noises, and music can tell stories, without having to have any dialogs, or main stories that articulated by plain text. I completely agree that video games can tell stories. They can tell stories simply by having the character run through the level with different types of dialog and text, to sounds and songs. I believe video games can tell a story about the same as any other form of literature, but the fact that you are immersed in it, by interacting with the people, the story, and all of the outside objects, impacts on the human mind harder. I feel like it buries down into your mind, and you can recall it. People can recall actors, and movies, and plot-lines, most of the time. People will always be able to put stories together if they are a part of it, it's like they are living through the history and story themselves. Books and literary devices like oral histories are different because you may be able to read the text, and hear it, but it might not feel the same. Being fully immersed in the video game, learning and comprehending whats happening, without having to try and piece together things from the book, from cover to cover, it's a lot more cohesive when you look at a video game. Granted, you can be immersed in a book, and you can use imagery and context clues to "Paint a Picture" in your head, but what if you cant imagine a scene? A senario? Could it be so incredibly absurd that you can't picture it? What if someone had it already depicted? and you could interact with it and become a part of the history? I think that video games can not only accurately depict a story, but can also fully bring you into it, and have you experience it first hand. It can really get you to think, both critically and analytically, without it all being given to you from a reader's voice, to text that explains the problems later in the book. I think video games definitely can tell both a story and fully engage you in the events in that story.

Outline/Story Board of This I Believe Speech

This is in significance to talking about the "Home" phone, and being a part of a family without having a cell phone.

Telling about how getting a hold of people is easy, with the use of a phone.

Showing a groups tab that I had created.

The log in screen, sort of a blank background to go on with the use of Facebook during the Egypt Government being overthrown

A "Group"

Jordan being a "Little girl" who is tormented and crying, because of drama on Facebook

Facebook and other Social Networking Sites that "Tear" down individuals.

Good things that can be used for and achieved with, using facebook (Notice how in the video that the thumbs down is longer).

A Thumbs down, signifying both the stress caused by facebook and drama, and the disadvantages of Facebook.

A side-by-side comparison of the Facebook and Twitter Logo's