Questions for the elderly

-How have social attitudes changed over the past 50 years?

-Do you think people are less sociable now days?

-Why do you think people are less sociable nowdays?

-Why do you think people were more sociable 50 years ago?

conclusion - Narration

Everything changes. Cultures, places, people. Everything develops, and moves forward: thus is the nature of the human race. And with it has come the coming together of races, cultures and societies. Throughout this investigation, we have truly discovered what we have begun to lose which we need to develop our world, and thus social attitudes everywhere have changed.

Social interaction is hugely important to our way of life - without it our society would become a blur of typed messages and updates. We would lose all sense of our ability to converse with other people, and lose touch with culture. Culture used to be a way of tending natural growth, but has now come to encompass a 'whole body of arts'. Maybe that is what we need. we need shared cultural experience to aid our natural growth and in turn improve our social skills and our ability to converse.

As useful and as important as the development if new technology is, we must not lose sight of our cultural background, and maintain the essential balance which affects all ways of life.

Productions Stills: Pre-Production and Post Production

Production Stills: Social Footage / Introduction Montage

What we have done, and what we still need to do!

• Opening Montage - Footage [x] Narration [x]
• Interviews in Sheffield City Centre - Footage [x] Narration [x]
• Stats, social networking sites - Footage [x] Narration [x]
• Stats, behavioral psychology, people on sofa - Footage [x] Narration [ ]
• Elderly home - Footage [x] Narration [ ]
• Industry - Footage [x] Narration [x]
• Conclusion - Footage [x] Narration [ ]

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)

Celebration

I would like to take this moment to congratulate good ol' group D for getting our FINAL SHOT done today! Celebraaaaaaation!

NEW EXPERIMENT REPLACEMENT

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.

Interview Questions

Thinking a bit about our meeting with the lovely old folk on Tuesday, and have found some useful tips for conducting the interviews.

Introduction

Interviews are particularly useful for getting the story behind a participant's experiences. The interviewer can pursue in-depth information around a topic. Interviews may be useful as follow-up to certain respondents to questionnaires, e.g., to further investigate their responses. Usually open-ended questions are asked during interviews.

Before you start to design your interview questions and process, clearly articulate to yourself what problem or need is to be addressed using the information to be gathered by the interviews. This helps you keep clear focus on the intent of each question.

Preparation for Interview

1. Choose a setting with little distraction. Avoid loud lights or noises, ensure the interviewee is comfortable (you might ask them if they are), etc. Often, they may feel more comfortable at their own places of work or homes.
2. Explain the purpose of the interview.
3. Address terms of confidentiality. Note any terms of confidentiality. (Be careful here. Rarely can you absolutely promise anything. Courts may get access to information, in certain circumstances.) Explain who will get access to their answers and how their answers will be analyzed. If their comments are to be used as quotes, get their written permission to do so. See getting informed consent.
4. Explain the format of the interview. Explain the type of interview you are conducting and its nature. If you want them to ask questions, specify if they're to do so as they have them or wait until the end of the interview.
5. Indicate how long the interview usually takes.
6. Tell them how to get in touch with you later if they want to.
7. Ask them if they have any questions before you both get started with the interview.
8. Don't count on your memory to recall their answers. Ask for permission to record the interview or bring along someone to take notes.

Types of Interviews

1. Informal, conversational interview - no predetermined questions are asked, in order to remain as open and adaptable as possible to the interviewee's nature and priorities; during the interview, the interviewer "goes with the flow".
2. General interview guide approach - the guide approach is intended to ensure that the same general areas of information are collected from each interviewee; this provides more focus than the conversational approach, but still allows a degree of freedom and adaptability in getting information from the interviewee./LI>
3. Standardized, open-ended interview - here, the same open-ended questions are asked to all interviewees (an open-ended question is where respondents are free to choose how to answer the question, i.e., they don't select "yes" or "no" or provide a numeric rating, etc.); this approach facilitates faster interviews that can be more easily analyzed and compared.
4. Closed, fixed-response interview - where all interviewees are asked the same questions and asked to choose answers from among the same set of alternatives. This format is useful for those not practiced in interviewing.

Types of Topics in Questions

Patton notes six kinds of questions. One can ask questions about:

1. Behaviors - about what a person has done or is doing
2. Opinions/values - about what a person thinks about a topic
3. Feelings - note that respondents sometimes respond with "I think ..." so be careful to note that you're looking for feelings
4. Knowledge - to get facts about a topic
5. Sensory - about what people have seen, touched, heard, tasted or smelled
6. Background/demographics - standard background questions, such as age, education, etc.

Note that the above questions can be asked in terms of past, present or future.

Sequence of Questions

1. Get the respondents involved in the interview as soon as possible.
2. Before asking about controversial matters (such as feelings and conclusions), first ask about some facts. With this approach, respondents can more easily engage in the interview before warming up to more personal matters.
3. Intersperse fact-based questions throughout the interview to avoid long lists of fact-based questions, which tends to leave respondents disengaged.
4. Ask questions about the present before questions about the past or future. It's usually easier for them to talk about the present and then work into the past or future.
5. The last questions might be to allow respondents to provide any other information they prefer to add and their impressions of the interview.

Wording of Questions

1. Wording should be open-ended. Respondents should be able to choose their own terms when answering questions.
2. Questions should be as neutral as possible. Avoid wording that might influence answers, e.g., evocative, judgmental wording.
3. Questions should be asked one at a time.
4. Questions should be worded clearly. This includes knowing any terms particular to the program or the respondents' culture.
5. Be careful asking "why" questions. This type of question infers a cause-effect relationship that may not truly exist. These questions may also cause respondents to feel defensive, e.g., that they have to justify their response, which may inhibit their responses to this and future questions.

Conducting Interview

1. Occasionally verify the tape recorder (if used) is working.
2. Ask one question at a time.
3. Attempt to remain as neutral as possible. That is, don't show strong emotional reactions to their responses. Patton suggests to act as if "you've heard it all before."
4. Encourage responses with occasional nods of the head, "uh huh"s, etc.
5. Be careful about the appearance when note taking. That is, if you jump to take a note, it may appear as if you're surprised or very pleased about an answer, which may influence answers to future questions.
6. Provide transition between major topics, e.g., "we've been talking about (some topic) and now I'd like to move on to (another topic)."
7. Don't lose control of the interview. This can occur when respondents stray to another topic, take so long to answer a question that times begins to run out, or even begin asking questions to the interviewer.

Immediately After Interview

1. Verify if the tape recorder, if used, worked throughout the interview.
2. Make any notes on your written notes, e.g., to clarify any scratchings, ensure pages are numbered, fill out any notes that don't make senses, etc.
3. Write down any observations made during the interview. For example, where did the interview occur and when, was the respondent particularly nervous at any time? Were there any surprises during the interview? Did the tape recorder break?

DVD Menu

I have designed a DVD menu. Jessica and I thought we could call our film 'The Ambient Model'. What does everything think?

Music for your ears.

Oh snap! Thought of a cracker of a song for our documentary.



I really to want to have this song being played with a montage of the elderly. I think it will be awesome.

A Bit more Narration.

nb.to be added in the paragraph that mentions 'The Ambient Model' In previous years to contact 100 people it would require a huge amount of work. you would have to make 100 phone calls, or write 100 letters, or talk to all 100 people individually. with this new ambient model it is possible to contact 100's of people at a click of a button

This is narration that i did for the bit about industry. It is to be coupled with the footage that i shot on the 19th.

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.

What will happen so far!

Opening Montage - 1 min
Interviews in Sheffield centre (youg people), Social Networking sites etc - 2 mins
Experiment intro - 30 secs
Stats, behavioral psychology - 30 secs
Experiment, introducing subjects - 1 min
Stats - social networking sites etc - 30 secs
Interviews in elderly home - 2 mins
NEW: Info on Technology - 1 min?
Experiment conclusion, subject interviews - 30 secs
Conclusion (with reference to Raymond Williams - Culture and Society) - 30 secs

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

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.

Scene change. interior house, people coming in, meeting, shaking hands etc during narration.

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

Before the experiment, it was important to make sure that the subjects had never met. We put the subjects into a small room and simply asked them to wait, telling them that the experiment would begin when we took them out of the room in turn. However, the experiment in fact will study how our subjects will react to being forced into a social situation where they have to choose where they will socially stand, and whether or not they will choose to communicate with the others at all. We will return later to see how they communicate with each other and whether or not a social hierarchy emerges.

people walking around sheffield, on phones, ipods etc.

It was also important to note how behavioral psychology would affect the experiment. Social interaction is a fundamental part of everyday life, whether this be physically with other people or via communicative media.

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. This was also affected by seating arrangements, as it has been previously recorded that particular seating arrangements, for example sitting opposite each other, are more socially acceptable for people who are unacquainted. In a previous study, 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. We expect to see some evidence of this during the experiment.

back to experiment. subjects introducing themselves to camera

Elderly Home

Today got in contact with our elderly home! We're visiting Aaron house on tuesday, at 2. Successss!

Elderly Home

Rang the elderly home on Broomhall Rd - the nice lady on the end of the phone said she reckons that would be fine, but we've got to check with the manager tomorrow. Success!

Experiment script

Just added to Abi's bit of script and elaborated for the experiment itself :)

Experiment

After the experiment was over, we took aside each volunteer separately, not allowing them to talk to each other. We asked them what they believed the experiment was about, and what they thought we were trying to achieve, to see just how perceptive they were, and whether or not they picked up on the nature of the experiment.

*Subjects discussing their thoughts*

We then explained to them the nature of the experiment, and asked them how they felt at being put into a room with strangers. (Ask questions below)

*Subjects discuss*

1. After experiencing the experiment, what do you believe it was about? What do you think we were trying to achieve?

2. How did you feel about being put in a room with people you didn’t know?

3. Did you feel compelled to communicate, or rather keep to yourself? Why do you think that is?

4. Who do you think was the most communicative of the group?

5. Do you think a social hierarchy emerged? If so, where did you stand?

6. Do you feel that had we told you beforehand about the nature of the experiment, you would have felt more inclined to make an effort to communicate? Why do you think that is?

Logs.

Camera logs have been done. Mark can i have that other tape. Sound logs done aswell. where is the narration we have done.

Narration

this is the narration for

Interviews in Sheffield centre (young people), Social Networking sites etc - 2 mins
Experiment intro - 30 secs
Stats - social networking sites etc - 30 secs
Interviews in elderly home - 2 mins

Let me know if this is okay guys. Cheers

We went into Sheffield town centre to ask young people about their knowledge of social networking sites, using Facebook as an example. Do they use them? How often do they use them? What’s their opinion on them causing a decline in face-to-face social contact?

To investigate further if social networks are harming our social skills we decided to conduct an experiment, we asked 3 people to sit in a room together, after intervals of 20 minutes we will take one person out. The idea is to see how they communicate with each other and whether or not a sort of social hierarchy emerges.

The social networking site Facebook has more than 300 million active users, with the fastest growing demographic being those aged 35 and older. 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 with more than 180 mobile operators in 60 countries working to deploy and promote Facebook mobile products, it comes as no surprise that Facebook mobile users are 50% more active than non-mobile users.

To get a better idea of what the overall population thought of the concept that social networks are harming our social skills, we asked some of the older generation about their views and to see if things were different when they were younger.