WHAT WILL HAPPEN - almost complete

Opening Montage - 1 min

Interviews in Sheffield centre (youg people), Social Networking sites etc - 2 mins

Stats - social networking sites etc - 30 secs - 1 min

Stats, behavioral psychology, people on sofa - 1 min

Interviews in elderly home - 2 mins

Info on inustrialism - 1 min

Conclusion (with reference to Raymond Williams - Culture and Society) - 30 secs - 1 min

OPENING MONTAGE.

Narrator:

You wake up in the morning. You take a shower, you have breakfast. You put on a pot of coffee. You leave the house, walking, or taking the bus or car. Along the way, you text. Talk on your phone. Listen to your iPod....

In today's society, these are all activities that take place during many people regular rountine. But what are we missing while we go about our day, oblivious to the people, and to what's around us..?

Titles roll

Narrator:

So, what has happened to our sense of awareness? Have we lost our ability to tune into society? Into what surrounds us?

Scene change, people in sheffield city centre, people walking by.

With the rise in popularity of social networking sites such as Facebook, we found this to be not only an interesting topic, but also important for us to create a better understanding of social communication and behavior amongst people between the ages of 16-24.

We firstly went into Sheffield City Centre to begin our investigation into social interaction.

INTERVIEW QUESTIONS IN SHEFFIELD CITY CENTRE.

interview questions

STATS - SOCIAL NETWORKING SITES

Scene change, clips of people on facebook

throughout the ages, technology has been making communication easier. Social networking sites like facebook make it possible to stay connected to hundreds of people at a time. It is now even possible to keep in touch with friends and family without having to connect with them, through what is known as status updates. this is now known as the ambient model.

The social networking site Facebook has more than 300 million active users. In any given day 50% of the active users log in and each month more than 2 billion photos, 14 million videos and 3 million events are created. Not only can you access Facebook through your pc, you can also log in on your mobile phone. There are more than 65 million active users currently accessing Facebook through their phone or mobile devices.

STATS - BEHAVIORAL PSYCHOLOGY - PEOPLE ON SOFA

Scene change. interior house

To investigate further into whether or not social networks are affecting our social skills we conducted a social experiment.

Social interaction is a fundamental part of everyday life, whether this be physically with other people or via communicative media.

Shot of sofa, face on.

This involves a great deal of social psychology, even though we don't realise it on a conscious level. For example, take this boy.

Boy appears on the sofa. (popping sound)

He's about to meet a new friend.

Another person appears, (popping sound) they shake hands. (this is all sped up, overdramatic).

In previous studies it has been found that when pairs of unacquainted peers were observed in free interaction, the rates of performance in verbal and non-verbal communication were significantly higher.

The pair talk heartily, nodding and laughing.

This changes when there are several people in the room.

Shot changes, now we can see two sofa's opposite each other.

There are even social rules when it comes to seating arrangements - for example, in a previous survey, it was found that sitting side by side was considered the most intimate. People will sit across from one another until the distance between them exceeds the limit for comfortable conversation. This is even indicative of a social hierarchy!

During the above narration, one person will firstly enter then sit down. Then, another enters, and does a turn in the middle of the sofas, a pondering expression on their face. They bite their finger nervously before finally deciding to sit opposite. Then, the two other people enter and choose their seats.

So, social interaction is very important in daily life, and these are skills which we accumulate over a lifetime. But how has the way we socialise changed through the years..? Has communicative technology played a part in this?

Cut to elderly home.

ELDERLY HOME

We wanted to find out how an older generation feels about social changes through the years, so we went to talk to the residents of Aaron House elderly home about their thoughts on society today.

INDUSTRY

This is Belper. Although not a buzzing metropolis, Belper has now been credited as a world heritage site and the start of the industrial revolution. The growth in industry saw a huge increase in the number of houses being built to accommodate the massive influx of factory workers. And as a result this forced large amounts of people into small areas, and creating whole new societies . ]

AND THEN...

With the collapse of british factories, we wanted to look at how societies are being created in the modern world.

OR....

We went to talk to residents at Aaron House to talk to them about what they remember from British industrialism.

CONCLUSION

(yet to be written)