Tuesday, 13 March 2012

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If Looks could kill
Then I’d be an uzi with a shotgun
Bang!
(What’s up with that thang)

And if walk in the street
With my snapback, you’d be looking like damn
(What’s up with that thang)

This look is so hood you can’t pull it off
Boi I wish you could
(What’s up with that thang)

Swagger so heavy
Like a fat man’s belly
I can’t barley walk
(What’s up with that thang)

I wanna know how it hangs

Sunday, 15 January 2012

Documentary Storyboard

Documentary Risk Assessment

Documentary Script

Description of location and how interview will take place

Questions for interviewer

SURVEYING PEOPLE


Around College Campus Most Likely in:

  • Canteen
  • Fields
  • Corridors
  • Reception 
 High Wycombe town center






Do You Use Social Networking Sites?

Which Social Networking Sites do you like the most and why?

What do you like about them?

Do you feel safe on them?

Have you ever felt in unsafe using a social networking site and if yes, what was it and what did you do about it


VICTIMS


Studio (preferably with a block color background)











What social networking sites they use .

Explain how you became a victim of this type of online criminality

What advice would you have to those people who use social networking sites


POLICE


The police station










This is the script for our voice over (narration). 







How many cases of social networking criminality do you get.

How old are the victims usually

What charges or punishment is usually given to victimizers and abusers

How do you insure safety to the victims




·        Social networks have become the fastest growing Internet crazes of the new millennium. With a growth in participants rising rapidly every year in such websites as Twitter, Facebook, Bebo, Myspace and now even Youtube, its no surprise that most people in this modern day society are far easier to track, browse and find online.

·        Social networks have been a very successful form of commutation, especially to the younger generation, but they have also became a great source of tracking for sex offenders around the world,

·        With such features on Facebook as chatting, photo uploading and commenting, and the ever so observable status updating social networks make it easy for sex offenders around the world to find and connect with their victims

·        In fact social networks are such a successful source to sexual predators that such shocking statistic as these appear:

1.     There are over 644,865 Registered Sex Offenders in the United States (2008)

2.     One in five U.S. teenagers who regularly log on to the Internet says they have received an unwanted sexual solicitation via the Web.

3.     About 30% of the victims of Internet sexual exploitation are boys.

4.     In 100% of the cases, teens that are the victims of sexual predators have gone willingly to meet with them

  1. 75% of children are willing to share personal information online about themselves and their family in exchange for goods and services



Documentary Proposal

1.
Topic
The topic of our documentary is online social networking dangers and outcomes. 



2.
Important questions that need an answer (three or more)
What are the dangers of social networking?

What criminality is caused and provoked through online social networking?

How to be safe on social networking sites ?

How popular is social networking? 



3.
Three talking heads (who I will interview formally)
The Police (one officer or two if possible)

Victim (Georgina Nelson and another if possible)

Students (various students around the campus) 


4.
Voice-over narration (what I will say about the topic through a narrator)
The narrator will cover:
  • Statistics about social networking 
  • Opinions of professionals online
  • Introducing each topic 
  • Summarizing the documentary as a whole



5.
On-location footage (what I will show while narrating
Related videos

Related Pictures 

Footage of people on social networking sites or just online 


6.
The Twist(something cool to impress audience)
The re-enactment 

The filmed experimental footage 

Statistics 
  

7.
How I plan to “get it done”.
Working as a group, each person will be in charge of different areas, by booking camera times, we can each divide the work into sections and some as a whole e.g. 

  • Video Extras (secondary and primary pictures and videos and narration). 
  • Interviews
  • Re-enactments and experimental footage    

These are the sections the group can divide into, we could all be involved in each part but someone will be in charge of making sure its done and edited. 

Documentary Outline

00.00 – 02.00
For the first 2 minuet of my documentary it will feature a re-enactment of the dangers of social networking, which will show a girl meeting up with someone she met online but is shocked to see it was not who she expected as the man who meets her immediately attacks and rapes her.

02.00 – 03.00
In the next minuet our documentary will go further into detail about social networking statistics. This will feature a montage of pictures and clips taken online of past relevant stories. This montage will be voiced-over.

03.00 – 05.00
The next two minuets will feature some interviews from users of social networking site answering some questions about it, like how safe they feel about social networking, why they like it and what they don’t like about it etc.

5.00 – 07.30
The next two minuets and 30 seconds will feature footage of a group member or volunteer on various social networking sites, communicating online as we observe how it works and how dangerous and possibly safe it is.

07.30 – 09.00
In the next two minuets and a half, the documentary will look at the criminality of the dangers of social networking, including interviews with the police, and victims of this type of criminality, then a final statement to outline the main points and the credits.     

Tuesday, 3 January 2012

Extended Research


Social networks have become the fastest growing Internet crazes of the new millennium. With a growth in participants rising rapidly every year in such websites as Twitter, Facebook, Bebo, Myspace and now even YouTube, its no surprise that most people in this modern day society are far easier to track, browse and find online.

There are more than 800 million active users on the social network ‘facebook’, more than 50% of our active users log on to Facebook in any given day and the average user has 130 friends. On twitter there are 145 million registered users, and counting. But the number of users on these social networks is not the only growth to take notice of. There also seems to be a big increase on the different types of social networks. Since 2005 to 2011 there has been a major increase in popular social network (over 15 social netoworks that have over 100 million users have been introduced since 2005, these includes such social netowork sites as facebook, twitter, tumblr, bebo and youtube).

The advantages to such social networking sites like Facebook is the fact that it allows you the power to stay in contact and communication with a lot of people at once and people that it would be genreally impossible to do with a phone, other social networking sites such as tumblr and twitter are mostly for promotion and showing-off and their ranking in the big numbers latley, proving especially popular with the teenagers and companies, businesses and indaviduals trying to reach out to them.  These social consist of such features as 

·         Profiles
  • Security Features
  • Networking Features
  • Search Features
  • Help/Support
  • Demographics
  • Advertisement Frequency
  • Photos 
  • Blog/Journal
  • Privacy Settings
  • Chartrooms
  • Instant Messaging & tags
  • Groups and communities
  • Mail alerts and features
  • Grab/Copy/Share Photos
  • Mobile usage
  • Music and add-on features
  • Personal Videos
  • Games and applications
  • Classifieds and Events



The focus of my project is not just based on social networking sites. As it is based on all kinds of similar forms of communication (that mostly involve being able to communicate with someone without being able to physically touch of see them face to face) these types of communication are becoming more popular. The prove is in the rising genres, not just social networking sites like Facebook, but it goes further beyond that as the world is introduced to others such a Blackberry Messenger (commonly known as BBM), Skype, Mix It (a new international one). As I mentioned before that these social networking sites do bring advantages, they are also bringing one the biggest disadvantages, exposure. 




According to a recent polls and surveys, on social networks such as Facebook and twitter....

  • Up to 39% of people use them to look up old flames.

  • 25% of the 10.8 million Britons registered with networking websites expose information such as contact details or dates of birth on their online "profiles".


  • Among 18 to 24-year-olds the proportion putting themselves at risk of identity fraud rises to 34%.

  • The poll of 2,000 adults conducted by ICM found 29% admitted searching for former boyfriends or girlfriends, with the 25 to 34 age group most likely to hunt out their exes, at 39%.


  • Nearly one in three people has also used the sites to find out about their boss, colleagues or a job candidate.

  • The survey showed 13% of social net workers had posted information or photos about other people without their consent, rising to 27%





These are all the kind of hazards that can lead to serious crimes, and in some tragic cases, these hazards can lead to death. 1 in 5 juvenile’s ages 10 to 17 years has received a sexual solicitation over the Internet, 1 in 33 has experienced an aggressive approach, and 1 in 4 has received unwanted explicit pictures. This is an issue that doesn't just effect the youth, adults (particularly from ages 21-30) can fall victim to cyber sex offenders and various other online sexual crime and abuse.




It’s important to note that it’s not only social networks that these shocking cyber-crime statistics appear. Perhaps they’re greater when being sedated with dating websites and Chat rooms. 











There is a dating site called ‘OK Cupid’, which is a fast growing dating site graze (coming in second to ‘Match.com’ in most popular dating sites in the UK). Ok cupid has a newly introduced feature that allows its users to broadcast information on their whereabouts, from the city and exact location to what their wearing. This feature can be a fun and romantic feature to locate your love interest and allow them to locate you, but it’s also like an advertisement to online sexual offenders and predators, such information shouldn’t be broadcast out to strangers. Even if you think your safe and trust the person, you can never be 100% who’s really behind the screen.      


This next artical is taken from a debate, that was done online, they show the opinions and facts taken from Leon Benjamin who works at a Law Firm Group, Stuart Brocklehurst from Carbon Leadership LLP and Sally Broom  YourSafePlanet.


The benefits of social networking

Social networking can help companies, individuals, governments and society in general to raise social consciousness. It can help participants, particularly young people, to socialise.
Social networking is now ubiquitous and is here to stay. People can use social networks within organisations to help those same organisations to succeed; can help individuals within an organisation to make decisions and do well for themselves.
Elements of social networking provide opportunities for people to try out new ideas in a lower risk environment.
For governments social networking can be an agent for global change and help break down divides between nations and states and help assist globalisation.
Some delegates felt that we tend to assume things on the web are correct even when they’re not. However, the web could theoretically be more accurate than the printed word because potentially millions of eyes are scrutinising the information.

The risks of social networking

Social networking is frequently used for nefarious purposes including child pornography and pirate downloads. There are also major issues within social networking regarding privacy and the misuse of people's data. Twitter can spread good and bad information very quickly and ruin reputations overnight. Like most tools social networking sites such as Twitter and Facebook should be viewed as double-edged swords, having equal capacity for both good and bad  
Individuals have to remain accountable for their profiles and realise that there must be a separation between their social and private lives. There is the risk of unwittingly making mistakes public which remain permanently on the record.
One delegate mentioned that organisations in unelected positions (e.g. Google, Yahoo) can make global decisions, which can lead to frightening developments, for example, their attitude to social networking and data sharing.
There are also unintended consequences of government behaviour including routine wholesale spying on citizens (e.g. Echelon, RIP) and the use of the Terrorism Act by local government.
The way in which people treat different genders is exaggerated online too. Females, for example, are treated very differently to men. Is it unethical to pretend to be something we're not online or is it just like a senior manager getting his/her PA to respond on their behalf? The issue of gender and ethnicity can't apply in the same way online because users don't have to prove their identity. The big question perhaps is therefore when we should intervene on perceived misuse of online personas?


these are pictures of convicted online sex offenders, i found out that majority of them are    
men causcasian aged 30 and over.