FORMAL PROPOSAL

#MySocialNetwork

#MYSOCIALNETWORK

Our topic is the effects of social networking on young people

and society in general.

Our target audience is both males and females aged from 17

to 25. We expect most of them to be students at either college

or university.

It will be formal in accordance with conventional

documentaries.

We want our documentary to be shown on Channel 4 at 8pm.

CONTENT

Our documentary will look at social networking and how it has

affected peoples lives, both negatively and positively. The title is

‘#MySocialNetwork’ which is a play on the use of a hash-tag on

twitter. This will hopefully translate to our target audience.

Our interviews will be with a mixture of experts (teachers, academic

coaches etc.) and ordinary people (students etc.).

We will have a voxpop with multiple members of the public that are

inside and out of college.

We are asking a variety of people in hope that we get a wide range of

opinions to create a balanced argument.

We are considering using a clip from ‘The Social Network’ (film) as

possible stock footage.

RESEARCH

Primary

We are going to use a questionnaire to carry out a pilot

study. This will be handed out to 10 people to see what

they know about social networking.

We hope to get various opinions from the general public

during our voxpops.

The expert interviews allows us to get informative

views.

RESEARCH

Secondary

To choose the channel we wanted to show our documentary

on we looked at a few different channel remits and schedules to

help us decide (refer to Channel Remit Research).

We have used the internet and websites to source information

for our research and actual documentary.

Websites like socialmediatoday.com to get statistics, facts and

figures that we can use and feature within the docummentary.

RESOURCES

There is a range of software and hardware that we

will need to carry out our research, plan and

produce our documentary and present these

documents onto our blog.

The following slides will identify what these will

be:

HARDWARE

The hardware we will use will be:

A Windows PC will be needed throughout the process.

A printer to print off our questionnaires to get research.

A camera, microphone, tripod and headphones are essential

when it comes to filming footage for the documentary.

An iMac to edit our footage.

We may possibly use a recording studio to record our voiceover.

SOFTWARE

We will use the internet to get background knowledge

into social networking.

We will need to use Final Cut Pro on the iMac to edit and

GarageBand to create the music to be used within the

documentary.

We will need to use Microsoft Office to create documents

to help present our information and create the

questionnaires.

BLOGGER

We will use Blogger.com to present all of our

information and work towards the documentary.

The ways we will present this work will be through

different softwares, such as; Slideshare Scribd YouTube Standard Blog Post TimeToast.