The document discusses producing a documentary about the topic of social media. It will focus on the question "What underlying effect does social media have on us as people?". The target audience is people aged 16-24, which matches the age of students that will be interviewed at the filmmaker's college. The documentary will explore people's opinions on the effects of social media through interviews with a social media influencer, a psychology teacher, and vox pops with the public. It will also include archival footage from before the rise of social networking sites.

1. Possible Topics
Mobile Phones
Social
Media
Obsessions
Bullying
Education
Teenage
perception
Healthy eating and
exercise
Self image
Social Status
The Internet
Jobs
Grades, education, jobs, uni

2. Our final choice
Social Media
We have chosen social media as the topic of our documentary for a number of reasons. The target age
for our documentary is between 16-24. Our generation is known as the generation of social media due
to our excessive use of the numerous social networking sites.
These 2 reasons combined provide an initial basis for our documentary. The target audience age is
convenient for us to carry out research and produce our documentary in the college as the students are
between the ages of 16-19 which correlates with our target age therefore being easy to access for our
audience research and vox pop’s.
The topic of Social media will be interesting to our target audience as it is a current and a main element
in todays society.
We are hoping to portray arguments for and against social media linking it to how it is affecting us as
people in this generation.
In our documentary we are going to include; vox pops of students giving their personal opinions on
social media, a psychology teachers view on social media, archival footage on lives before social media,
a person with a lot of instagram followers and the effect they feel it has on them.

3. Possible Questions
Is social media having an
effect on our generation?
Does social media have an
What underlying effect
does social media have on
us as people?
What are the lasting effects effect on our generation?
of social media on our
generation?

4. Our final choice
What underlying effect does social media have
on us as people?
We have chosen to use this question for our documentary as we want to explore the possible
effects that social media may be having on the people using them. We are hoping to get other
peoples opinions on social media and their views on the effects of social media. Due to the
readily available target age students we are able to use this provides us with an advantage to gain
as much information as possible.
We are hoping that using this target audience age we will be able to explore in detail peoples true
thoughts and feelings on one of todays biggest phenomenon.

5. What we’re including
• We will interview an individual with a lot of Instagram followers and ask them
about the affect they feel Instagram has on them.
• We will interview a psychology teacher and ask them about the psychological
effects that social media is having on us.
• Vox pops on members of the public and ask them about their view on the effect
social media is having on us as people
• Use archival footage of teenagers before the use of social networking sites.