Exhibition & Evaluation

The representation of my work is to make people understand that social media is not always a positive things and can cause negative effects on people.  The stereotype of social media is whatever you hear is whatever you agree with which is 100% correct. This is because of a hypodermic syringe model. The media product creates representations of how people use social media as a way to bully people online as social media companies have minimum guidelines and do little nor nothing to stop online bullying.

There are little or no campaigns which actually talk about the effects of social media on people. From online bullying to catfishing. There are a few youtuber’s which go onto Instagram and catfish people but while catfishing when they go and meet the person they make sure your parents are with them so they are able to confront their child. There is only a few documentaries which are based on social media and the negatives of the media. One of them are called terms and conditions may apply. This documentary influenced my work as there are many areas it does cover but it didn’t cover the main issues which is happening on social media every day.

One of the biggest items which influenced my documentary is a documentary called Plugged In: The true toxicity of social media. This documentary went in-depth of how social media is easily accessible and how young people in today’s generation believe everything which is seen on social media. This is due to young people being hooked onto social media and whenever seeing something they either want it or be like someone they have seen. This is due to something called the hypodermic syringe model. They believe that whatever the news says or whatever they see on social media is right and that we should believer whatever is said.  

I choose to create posters this is so that I can place all my posters around the local area. This will allow my campaign to be put out there and so people can actually see what it is about. I also decided to create a documentary. This is because I would be able to go in-depth of things and also make it around a certain area which is the issue. I have added all types of things which includes voice overs and also people actually stories but with a voice changer.

The best item which communicates my campaign message is my documentary. I say this because of the reason of me being able to put more information of my topic in the documentary. I have used a variation of items so that my information is being able to be put out there so I was able to get a variety of views of the issue. My poster are also a secondary idea which just puts facts of the issue on the situation on an a4 page.  

      

I’m specifically trying to tell my target audience that social media isn’t always positive. They need to understand that there is negative things which happen on social media. This can be from anything to abuse on social media comments to cat-fishing. In today’s world cat fishing has become a major issue due to the fact of people believing whatever is said to them.  

The main audience for my project is 14-20 years old. This is because they use more social media. I put this as my audience because of how social media registering ages have been lowered severally. This allows the youngest generation to get onto social media earlier.

I personally feel the items which will appeal the most to my audience is my posters. This is due to the fact that my generation don’t like watching documentaries whereas posters can be placed anywhere and everywhere so they will have a glimpse of it and feel like they need to see what it is about. This would need me to make my poster aesthetically pleasing and eye catching.

The difficulties will be trying to get peoples personal inputs involved into the work. This is because people don’t want to speak about their personal lives and issues which have affected their lives. This would make it harder for me to get personal inputs into it.

I would like to improve my posters. This is because of how blank it is. But my first idea was creating something which had information which was simple to see but had facts. I wanted to make sure my facts are short and sweet allowing me to get people’s attention with posters. I could have made more posters allowing me to publish it more to a wider audience.