Documentary Research

The dark side of online dating 

What is online dating?

 Online dating or internet dating is known to be a person greeting system where people can contact and connect with different types of people over the internet or via a phone app. Mostly hoping to gain a relationship with the person they're talking to either sexually or romanticly. 

Where does the dark and negativity side of online dating come in? 

The dark side of online dating occurs when negativity is caused by these sites/ apps

The dark side of online dating varies from people being

Scammed

Stalked

Raped

Exploited 

Catfished

All whilst communicating to someone online and / meeting them in person. 

For example, they're many reports where people have been scammed by using online dating websites, thinking that they're talking to someone they have a connection with, when the person is just using them simply to get money. 

Here is a case where someone was scammed and lied to, the person she was talking to through the internet lied to her and said how he was ill and needed money for a kidney transplant. When he really just wanted to scam the lady.

There have been many other cases of online dating and how it has made a negative impact on people which has been documented on the popular hit show Catfish which is broadcasted on MTV

The show overall shows people who have talked to people online romantically for a vast amount of time without really meeting them in person. 

Most cases people actually find out they have been talking to someone pretending to be who they are which means that they have been  ''catfished'' by someone. However, there is a minor positive aspect of the show as they are very small times in the show where people meet the person they have actually been speaking to.



The term ''catfished'' is a popular word in the tv show catfish it basically means that you was a victim and was lured into a relationship with someone that had a fake persona. The term ''catfish'' is another term which is popularly used in catfish it overall means someone who is pretending to be someone else. 

Bibliography :

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Online_dating_service
http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=catfish

Outtakes

Here I present some of my outtakes of some clips that I did not use in my documentary, due to the fact that the 1st clip was not really steady it was tilted and on an angle and it did not look really professional. As for the second clip, I did not use it because I felt like you could hear more noise in the background  than my voice and I thought that the quality was fuzzy rather than clear.

Diary Entry

Dear diary,

Today all of us in the class have been assigned to do a documentary of any sorts of genre. I decided to do a documentary on the dark side of online dating merely because I think it would be quite an interesting topic to present and quite a unique one to discuss rather than the history of online dating.

Overall I have recorded some clips of my documentary and I am now in editing process, I already have got some vox plots in my documentary and also facts and information about  a group called Bye Felipe which shows ways in which girls are treated violently and rudely on online dating apps just because they rejected the guy on the app.

Today for my documentary I plan to do these things in order.

• Do some vox plots outside.
• Introduce my vox plot.
• Do a voice over (Whilst an online dating ad is playing.)

Hopefully, I will finish approximately when we have a week to edit when coming back. I aim to make my documentary 7 minutes long.

My proposal

My proposal

What my documentary would be about: The dark side of online dating

What is it about? My piece is about the dark and negative aspects of online dating and how it can play an important role in someone’s life negatively.

Issues raised in my documentary is

·      How stalking could be formed through online dating

·      How people can be harassed through online dating

·      A brief showing of the positive aspects of online dating along with the negatives of online dating

·      How online dating can be used for only one thing intercourse and not a proper relationship.  

What kind of interviews would we see?

I would do a vox pop interview where I would interview 3 people just talking to them about what their views on online dating and if they have experienced anything bad with it.  In my documentary, you will see a re-enactment just of an actor opening up a dating app for a visual purposes, and I would also show clips of couples being loved up to negative sides of dating to show contrast.

How long would my footage be?

My documentary would be 7 or 10  minutes because I want to add a lot of material on this subject and go into detail. In my piece, I have decided that I will use a voiceover to some of my clips and I would also plan a risk assessment, do a production schedule, and a call sheet along with a shot list.