Proposal for Documentary

For my documentary I am going to see how people use twitter to get their news from the outside world. Since our generation has grown up with a new sense for technology, we spend a good amount of our time on social media sites. Now that most of us are so busy with school and college in general, we don’t have time to sit around watching the news or reading the local newspaper. Since we are all already spend a good amount of our time on twitter, and with how much people post about major events or things that are happening in the world, it is easy to find out the majority of major news just through twitter.

My audience will be busy college kids that have very hectic schedules will little free time. Maybe try to get students who are involved in lots of different clubs or organization, who don’t have much extra time on their hands. I want to see how much time (if any) college students have to get informed about events happening all over the world.

If possible I want to see how many college aged people follow big news stations. For example, locally I am going to look at LEX18 News and nationally CNN and ABC News. I want to see if college age kids are getting there info from these twitter pages or just from their friend’s tweets or retweets.

I plan on getting some shots in the dorm room and various sites around campus of people on twitter. I might possibly have a shot in the library or student center of people on twitter, or just walking to class. I also plan on asking the following questions to different college students: How often do you watch the news and/or read the newspaper? How much of your day do you spend on twitter? How much global or national news do you find out through twitter? I also want to see how people do get info from twitter, is it just on their newsfeed and they stumble upon it? Or are they going and hunting for this info?

I also want to see how people get connected through other things through twitter. It seems that almost all large companies or organizations have twitter pages. So it would be interesting to see who and what kinds of people follow some of these group. Most businesses, from small locally to huge nationally, have twitter accounts and use them to connect to their customer through twitter. Since most everyone of the younger generation is on twitter, it is an easy way to connect with them and get their attention.