7. By Devika Girish
This is an already existing product written by Devika Girish, an article that
goes over The Social Dilemma as a documentary. This is similar to my own
product as I was also talking about the similar themes that this article
references. The overall article includes more detailed information
surrounding the director Jeff Orlowski than I had done. This is because I
wanted to mainly focus on the product itself rather than who directed it. The
article also references interviews that Jeff Orlowski had done to promote and
talk about the documentary. This is something that I could’ve done, since it
fits in with the theme of how the documentary was advertised and would
allow me to explore the different ways that the company did this.
Similarities: A similarity of my product and this already existing product is
that they, obviously, both talk about the same similar theme within the
documentary. However we both also reference how the documentary doesn’t
go far enough and talk about the true reproductions that social media can
have on peoples mental health.
Differences: Although both of our products talk about the same themes
within our own products, the existing product does further research into the
director Jeff Orlowski’s films and compares them to this documentary. The
existing product comes to the conclusion that the film is an overall solid
documentary surrounding social media whilst my product disagrees.
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/09/movies/the-social-dilemma-
review.html
