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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.

My Powerpoint - Documentary

This is my powerpoint about how dating has overall changed throughout the years this is what i was hoping my documentary would be on however I decided to change the subject of my documentary to the dark side of online dating and how it impacts someone, merely because I believe that it is a topic that people are not as knowledgeable about and a topic that would be easier to do as the history of online dating is something that is everlasting 

Media Production Film/TV UAL Level 2

Preaya Skerritt.

PLOT OVERVIEW

The film that I have decided to analyze is the movie called Mean girls, which is a 2004 all American teen comedy film which was directed by Mark Waters and written by Tina Fey. The movie is about a girl called Cady Heron that moves from living in Africa due to her parents being involved in a research program to moving again to the United States. Cady Heron then gets in a group called the plastics an all girl group that holds authority over the peers in their school. 

The movie is known to have some symbolic themes such as the color pink which is seen all around the movie and represented stereotypically as a girly color which is one of the reasons why this movie is seen to be more liked by the female gender. In fact, there is a very famous quote that is very recognizable in the movie which is ‘’on Wednesdays we wear pink’’ which again brings up the pink reference.

 

                              (As you can see the common color the Plastics wear is pink)

The location of the film is located in Evanston Illinois, in an all-American themed high school called North Shore, some scenes are filmed in a shopping center. Most of the scenes appear to be bright and in a busy environment because the movie is very teen related, although the environment is packed there is one group of girls in North Shore that captures the center of the attention which are the plastics. As they walk throughout the school their body language shows how much authority and power they obtain. 

 (They walk with their heads held high and good posture whilst making themselves appear girly and feminine) 

 What also shows that the Plastics are important is not just through their posture but also through the lighting aspect of this film, the lighting appears to be much more brighter and a high key lightening as soon as they step onto the scene.  When they walk into the scene it is even edited to make the Plastics appear that they are walking in slow motion simply to show that they are better than everyone else and that they’re the superior ones of the school.  Besides the lighting there clothing and the style of it really contributed well towards the fact that they are popular as their clothes seem to be hip than everyone else’s, it also related to the genre of theme about them being young. Which fits the theme as well about stereotypes is the use of props the plastics have in the film you see a lot of props such as purses, hairbrushes, dresses and all things girls related which could be one of the reasons why this movie is more female influenced. Some of the members even carry a cup of coffee. 

There is even another stereotype that is placed in this movie regarding females with blonde hair. Karen Smith is a rather blunt and dumb character who is known to act unaware and just clueless towards the rest of the members of the Plastics and the situations they encounter.

 

 She is known to say quite ignorant stuff without really thinking of the consequence. For example, in one scene she says her cousin is ‘’hot’’ and a ‘’good kisser’’ and in another scene that she feels like she is psychic due to her breasts always predicting when it is going to rain. She is the exact stereotype representing that blonde girls appear to be dumb and unaware of their surroundings and people.

Facial expression is also a factor that is played out throughout the movie, the plastics are known to use their facial expressions to their advantage to show their dominance towards their peers and also some people in the shopping center.

This is the scene when Regina George the main leader of the plastics realizes her dress does not fit her and is asked to leave the shop and go to sears.

Her facial expression shows how frustrated she is by the retailers’ advice and also shows how threatening she may look to others.This scene is perfect for seeing the expression she has and the rest of the plastics, the scene shot turns to a middle scene so you can see the anger on her face and how the rest of the plastics empathize due to her frustration.

How camera angles made an impact in the film

The camera angles was an important part of the film it allowed the viewers to see the expressions more of the characters and the surroundings really well. The camera angles varied from being a medium shot to a pan shot which was used to show the surroundings of the high school and last but not least there was some close up shots in the film to add an intense atmosphere.

 

For example, in this phone scene, they are some long shots and some close-up shots. You notice that in the close up shot you can see more emotion some of the plastics members obtain whilst speaking on the phone.

Connotation Signs

When it came to denotation and connotation signs of the movie Mean Girls there are quite visible signs which were even present in the film cover. The cover instantly shows the vulnerable person Cady Heron and besides her the Plastics presenting themselves in a confident and powerful way.  The Plastics in the cover look quite intimidating giving the ‘’always watch your back’’ vibe whereas Cady by her body language looks innocent and defenseless.

The cover also links to the pink reference again  that stereotypically girls find that color amusing. 

The font appears to be big and eye-catching and yet again in the color pink, the word that stands out the most is ‘‘mean’’ because this is evident from the film that one of the main characters is a victim towards the Plastics.You can see the contrast of the Plastics and Cady Heron through their clothing to the plastics seem to be dressed like a stereotypical girly girl whereas Cady does not fit that criteria her clothing seems to be quite the opposite from the Plastics.

Conclusion : Overall it is been proven that the target audience  for this film is mostly aimed at the female gender simply because of the symbolic signs and girly themes, you could tell that the film was also a movie that would be targeted at the younger generation because of the comedic and immature scenes that were placed in the movie, it has been said that when the movie came out it was age restricted at 12+ which is very understandable.  The movie Mean girls was meant to be an attraction for females rather than males despite this they are some males  that find mean girls an attraction to them and a good movie.