Video documentary

What do I want to achieve?

- I’d like to convey my research findings to people

- I’d like to create a documentary that informs people about the growing popularity of YouTube as a site of participatory media and to convey what actual YouTube users think of the sites success and reasons why they use YouTube in the way they do

How will I achieve what I want to?

- By interacting with users through YouTube, I am able to ask them questions about their content on YouTube and what their reasons are for participating through YouTube

- By adapting users feedback in an interesting way, be it through screen capture or through video responses they send me*

* (asking users to send me video responses to my questions provides an interesting way to convey my intended message, rather than just seeing a message on a screen)

- By using extracts from other YouTube videos it will enable me to convey what I mean through words as well as visual  effects as I can edit them as I wish to engage the audience

How will I set my video documentary out?

Introduction – this is where I will set out what I have tried to find out and what the documentary is going to be about

• Background – YouTube videos all layered together
• Audio – voice-over to introduce the documentary

Content will be responses to what I want to find out, mainly video responses form YouTube users about their own experiences and their own reasons for using YouTube.

Getting them to send their video responses so that I can use them in my own video enables a better use of audio-visual tools for the audience.

I will have user responses contrasted against theorists points of view on YouTube as a site of participatory culture and why people are using the site.