The documentary examines both the positive and negative aspects of social networking. It explores how businesses have used social media to their advantage as well as stories of suicide related to cyberbullying. The documentary features interviews with social media users, a psychology teacher, and representatives from app companies. It also includes clips from YouTube and montages showing different perspectives on social networking.

1. Running Order
Documentary: The ‘Un’Social Network
Channel: Channel 4
Scheduling: January 16th 2014 - 8:30pm to 9pm
Duration: 27 minutes (including advert break)
Montage of ‘free WiFi’ and ‘add us on Facebook’ signs
Opening titles
Over shoulder shots of people on computer/iPhone using social networks and close up of screens whilst
voiceover introduces topic using statistic of how popular social networking is
Interview with app company staff explaining how their business uses social networking to their advantage
Montage of negative stories, narrator brings in the other side of perspective uses statistics of suicides
Interview with psychology teacher on effects of cyber bullying
Montage of YouTube clips, discussing the argument between the good and bad points and clip of interview
with a student who doesn’t use networks
Interview with app company discussing business and how it links to social networking
Interview with college student on the positives
Voice over discusses statistics (perspective A) whilst montage of screen grabs play in the background
Interview with college student
Reconstruction of someone downloading app/making a social network account
Selection of vox pops with people about the good points on social networking
Title sequence – person typing the name of the documentary on Twitter
ADVERT BREAK
Title sequence – person typing the name of the documentary on Twitter
Montage of both perspectives ends on Cyberbullying story – voice over discusses perspective B
Student interview on social networking
Vox pops on bad points of social networking
Screen shots of news stories whilst psychology teacher interview audio plays in background
Vox pops ‘opinions on Cyberbullying’
Collection of YouTube videos in grid with different audios as voiceover comes in “however….” Leads into
perspective A
Interview with YouTube blogger Troye Sivan
Archive footage of Troye Sivan ‘social networking’ video
Interview with band The Vamps audio plays whilst music video plays in the background
Archive of Emma Blackery’s Google + song
Continue interview with Troye Sivan
Interview with BryBry
Montage with ending conclusion – “social networking can be good and bad but we’d be lost without it…”
Ending credits
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