Documentary Proposal

Whatever happened to Myspace? For my documentary, I’m going to revisit the world of Myspace. I’m curious as to why it has almost completely disappeared. It used to be the main social media website several years ago and now few, if any, use it. Facebook has dominated the world of social media ever since Myspace died. It basically has replaced Myspace. But why? Myspace offered so many more ways to personalize your profile. You could have a background on your page, add pictures and playlists, and also have a “top friends” list. I believe that Myspace disappeared because all of these different aspects over complicated things. But I want to see what others think because I think we often forget that Myspace ever existed.  So I think my audience will be interested to find out what happened to Myspace.

 For my interviews, I plan to interview mostly other college students because we may be the only people who remember Myspace. When Myspace was popular we would have been the age that dominated the site. College students will also be my main audience because of these same reasons. I will try to ask several random people I don’t know, and also some friends. However, I will also interview some younger high school students from my high school and some older people. I think that Myspace was mostly used among teenagers when it was in its prime. Now though, Facebook seems to be used by all ages. So why has Facebook reached so many more ages than Myspace ever did? I plan to investigate this.

For my documentary, I won’t be using the shaky cam style mostly because it gives me a headache. I think that I will use my own camera for filming because it has several features that I think will be good for filming such as zoom. It would be easier than renting one. But I will have to do some playing around with it to make sure it can do everything I need it to do. Especially record audio. I will probably film at my high school when interviewing the high school kids and maybe teachers too. I will try to do this when I go home one weekend. When interviewing other college students I will probably interview some of the people I work with at Subway, and some other people in the library. I will also probably try to get on either mine or a friend’s Myspace and do some shots of the website to allow my audience to familiarize themselves with the website again. I may also do the same with my Facebook so we can compare the two sites. I’m not sure I will be able to do all this in time but I will sure try.

Some of the questions I plan to ask in my interviews will be: Did you have a Myspace? Do you still get on your Myspace page? Do you have a Facebook? Which site do you prefer? (which I expect the answer to be Facebook) Myspace had so many more features so why do you think no one uses Myspace anymore? What makes Facebook better? What did you use Myspace for and what do you use Facebook for now? How often were you on Myspace and how often are you on Facebook? What makes Facebook so much more addicting? Do you think that Myspace will ever make a comeback? Do you think what happened to Myspace will ever happen to Facebook?