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.