Media: Unit 1

Culture in the digital age: Informing and developing ideas  For this project I am required to make a short documentary for young people.The target audience of my documentary is young people between the ages of 13 and 19, the aim of the documentary is to show young people the how the digital age has changed our society and to think further on the impact of how it has changed the modern age.  I decided to make my documentary involved with fashion and how trends in fashion often make comebacks through social media. I think this would be a good example because it shows how our society is influenced by the digital age and the trends that follow with it. Fashion is an example of trends that have been influenced by society and social media, I feel that this shows the influence of social media on our society worldwide by focusing on old and new trends that re-populate through the internet and social media.  The documentary is meant to last between 5 and 15 minutes, I will further...

I decided to make my documentary around trends and style including how the media influences the public and how technology has effected the manufacturing of clothes materials and how they effect the environment. This is a good example of how technology has an effect on the public and how it effects those in the industry. I can go into detail about how technology has changed manufacturing and how it had positively and negatively effected people who work or used to work in factories, for example people who have lost jobs and how, how people have gained jobs from this and how technology has effected small businesses and large companies. through technology businesses can reach out to larger audiences whether the company is small or large getting positive exposure on the internet can help sales. Its much easier for smaller brands to advertise themselves on the internet helping them gain more for what they do.       I can further go into detail about how the technology used...

Week 1- This week i had to decide what my idea will be for my documentary and how it can be linked to the digital age along with some research about my idea. I also had to write about the given brief on what my documentary should include and why.  Week 2 - I continued to work on how i interpreted the brief and started to create a mind map of idea that i could use. Furthermore i have started to create a presentation on what my documentary will consist of and how it will play out.  Week 3 - This week i finished my interpreting ideas document and started to document some research and already existing media that are of the same topic  Week 4 - I have gone into detail about the research i have done on fashion in the digital age and how it differs from before the digital age.  Week 5 - This week i have started to create a time line and script for my documentary. I have evaluated on my idea and how i can develop it to further show my ideas.  Week 6 - This week i develo...