End of Week One- Analysis.

ANALYSIS*

At the end of week one what I have learnt is a primary research is very difficult I created a survey on www.surveymonkey.com and asked three main questions.

What is a conversation? 
How many hours a week do you spend on social media? 
What form of social media do you use?

I ended up with 38 responses and this is a quick overview of what I found. 

I then went on to expand these ideas and used my secondary research to look into facts and figures of the social media's listed using the most popular to be researched, and people's own views on social media. I then went on to ask my friends and family on Facebook and face to face what their likes and dislikes are about social media.

Carol Evans - 

Pro's; You can keep in touch with people you don't get to see very often and you can share ideas.

Con's; The negativity that can occur. 

Kerry Patchett- 

Pro's; You can keep in touch with friend's and family, stalk my daughter and her friends and you can share ideas.

Con's; All the negativity and you know what is going on in people's lives so you don't make as much effort to phone people the same.

Alice-Leigh Birtwhistle- 

Pro's; You can keep in touch with people and being a 'top stalker'.

Con's; All the negative viral videos of people trying to become 'Facebook Friends'.

Gabrielle Jayne Carruthers- 

Pro's; You can see places you haven't been before by other people's photos, and you can can keep in contact. 

Con's; The bullying I see and people always on their phones because social media is very accessible.

Tom Murray- 

Pro's; Being able to connect with everyone anywhere in the world in an instant and also have ideas, pictures, video's recognised! 

Con's; The inevitable bullying which comes from what I've stated above! Body shaming, verbal and physical threats for example. 

Pat- 

Pro's; Being able to keep in touch with people miles away, making friends with like minded people (it broadens your knowledge) 

Con's; The way people think they can not only say but also post pictures of awful things they wouldn't dream of doing to your face.

Anonymous- 

Pro's; Connect with family, friends etc and see what's going on in their lives, informed of local and world events/news, lots and lots of information and tips on interested subjects and interests.

Con's; People airing their dirty laundry, jumping into someone's bandwagon uninvited and being rude/ignorant/nasty, communication via these mediums and not face to face it's via telephones, indecent imagery/video's posted every bloody minute and hackers.

Michelle Corbett-

Pro's; You can keep in touch easily, save on the phone bill, make sure my son is still alive and see all the embarrassing photo's he'd really rather you didn't.

Con's; Finding out bad news before someone phones you, notifications binging up all the time, and people checking the phones when supposed to be socialising. 

Lynne Naylor- 

Pro's; Quick and easy to stay in touch, find and get in touch easily with old friends. Excellent place to store photo's which are then accessible from any web-interface. Make new friends with similar interests (you like a sit/ join a group and therefore meet friends through that site/group. Saves money, send invites out to family and friends through that medium.

Con's; You sometimes make less of an effort to visit/meet up with people because you feel you've 'caught up' via social media. This ,in turn, can encourage people to stay indoors and not interact with others like they previously would. If a person is not on social media then sometimes they can feel 'left out' as they are not kept 'in the loop'. Parties/get togethers are arranged and they are forgotten about because they never saw the invite.

I have also researched further into my secondary research included in this is my thoughts on gaming, social media facts and figures, mass marketing, unbranded within graphic design, wellbeing for an artist, consumer intelligence, internet of things and cognitive data. 

I will admit this was very difficult for me as I didn't understand half of them as they aren't terms i've ever looked into before, but from this I have learnt many things including how to say cognitive!! 

What I decided to do each week was create a video for each week analysis this was created using premier pro as I have basic knowledge on this however at this stage I am struggling with adobe after effects so would like to be able to revisit this and make me work better. I used a Canon Compact DSLR camera to film on which I didn't like it because it kept Auto-Focusing on my face with the flickering lights behind it, which makes me want to use different cameras. I used an external microphone which I plugged into my camera and I feel that there is annoying buzz sound going through it? Not next week as I have got my week planned now after editing this video, but the week after I'm going to look into spare and different equipment.