Week 4 – Project Planning!
Inspired by “Catfish”
Name: Dodging the Bullet
Group: Neeve & Bonnie
- 2 characters: female character (victim), male character (sociopath)
- Instead of “meeting”, the girl gets abducted (this is shown through the news report, and it is revealed that after investigation the person she has been chatting to doesn’t exist)
- Predator could know her from high school and want revenge for something?
Roles:
-1 social media profile each
– Each of us will act as one person in the “chat”
– We will both write the “scripts” together, and character profiles/descriptions, and write most of the chat while we are together so we can speak to each other and tell each other what to write.
– Neeve will be in charge of the “phone call” recording and planning
– Bonnie will be in charge of the Newspaper Story configuration
Media Platforms:
- Facebook Chat:
This will mean we need to create two “fake” Facebook accounts for the purpose of the story, one of us acting as one character each. This interaction will be where most of the story takes place.
- Facebook Profile:
We will need to create a social media profile for both characters after we create their account, which will include things like name, hometown, interests, age, D.O.B, photos, friend list. We will need to keep in mind that one of them needs to look more believable than the other, as one is supposed to be fake.
- Phone Calls/Audio:
The “phone call” will probably be a one-sided phone call from the victim, leaving a message on the other person’s phone, who isn’t answering. This is when the audience starts to get suspicious.
- Newspaper Report:
The “chat” will end abruptly as the story begins to come to and end, and a newspaper report will be the last media platform being used, that will tie all the loose ends together, confirming who the “Catfish” was, what happened to the person he was ‘Catfishing’.
Dodging the Bullet
Bonnie Dunleavy / s3484634
Niamh Fagan / s3488729
Rules:
- Set and Meet deadlines
- Communicate in our Facebook group
- Fulfil our roles but still help each other out if needed
- Don’t leave things until the last minute
- Come to class each week to discuss and communicate ideas and problems