Proposal Final

I want to find out about the deeper reason behind Facebook. I am interested if subconsciously people are using Facebook in order to tell other what they are doing in real life, so they use their virtual life to make their real life more interesting. Or is the opposite true? Do people do things in real life in order for their virtual identity in to seem more entertaining and make others think more highly, in this case they use the real world to improve their virtual world.

Now the audiences in this documentary are going to be other UK freshman, the reason I am focusing on them is because this documentary is about how people are using either Facebook or the real life to improve their social status, and UK freshman students usually participate in similar social things. So the question becomes are people more interested in their virtual life or the real life. The people I plan on interviewing for this are the ones who go to these social events like Basketball games, and those who participate in a lot of these events. Now the reason these students should care about this is it gives them an understanding for things that they might have done or want to do. It also gives insight to the motives on why they might have done certain things in their life, and this can provide some information about it.

Now I plan on shooting around campus especially where people go in order to hang out and be social. These are the places that I am interested in because they are being social and almost everyone has a Facebook so they would have to the two components that make up this question. Now I’m not exactly sure of my shooting schedule yet, it really depends on when I can get my questions together. The main difficulty will be in these questions, because people will not admit that they do things because of Facebook, because saying you got into something because it was popular on Facebook, so I am going to have to find a way to get around the topic, but not be to direct with it.

Now as of right now I am planning to make this documentary in the flow of, starting out with the two questions. In this part of the documentary I will be talking about my two questions, and I am going to talking about how these two things can take place, and how they could actually happen and why they happen. Then towards the middle will be the point that I am talking to people, and getting information out of them. Then the last part of the documentary will be when I am combining all of the information in order to get an answer to my question. I will then describe the answer and talk about why I think that is that answer and what it says about people.