Production Process

I am now coming towards the end of editing my final piece, as the deadline is this week. The final bit of work that I need to do is finish recording my speech, where i talk about the changes in society, from when people used to get in and go out with their mates, to getting home from school and plugging themselves in to their social networking site!! The content of the speech was: "In today’s society there has been a revolution in the way that we communicate with one another. With social media sites like ‘Facebook’ coming in, it is having a massive impact on everyone’s life’s. In this documentary I am going to look in to the effects that facebook is having on peoples lives, and the way that people have created a community over the internet and exclude themselves away from the community outside there front door."

The effects of social networking

There was an article in the Daily mail the other day suggesting that social networking sites are harming children's brains. Within this article they go on to say that it has been proven that children that use social networking sites on a regular basis have shorter attention spans than children who don't.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1153583/Social-websites-harm-childrens-brains-Chilling-warning-parents-neuroscientist.html

I have also managed to find a video on youtube discussing the matter.

Arab Spring

Over the last few years there has been several countries in conflict with their governments, and the way that the people of these countries have tried to make changes, is by using social media sites like Facebook to make people across the world aware of this. A few weeks ago there was a documentary on Television called the arab spring, and they were showing coverage of what was happening and the impact that facebook played on these peoples lives. Here is a short video of one of the episodes:

Production process

Currently in full swing of filming. I have been watching several youtube videos in current weeks, to expand my knowledge on the effect that facebook is having. A video that I found very useful was; http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z4gt62uAasE In this video it identified lots of facts and statistics that I can use in my documentary, and it also gave me an insight in to some editing techniques i could use. Some of the figures in this video are amazing, especially the one about; if 'facebook' was a country, then it would be the third largest country in the world.