1. Author name: Lisa Tan
2. Title of show: Status: it’s complicated
3. Format of show: Short film
4. Target audience: The younger generation
5. Opportunity or problem addressed: To help raise awareness of the addiction and the negative implications
6. Desired response: Awareness from the public
7. Logline: Maintaining a relationship with the internet and your loved ones can be tough. Making a decision on which is more important is even tougher when your crops in Farmville is almost due. To lose the farm or to lose your loved ones? Find out how the seemingly harmless internet can slowly deteriorate one’s relationship with others.
8. Themes: Reality-based, comedy
9. Treatment:
This story follows Jay, an internet addict who finds it difficult to go offline. When having a family dinner, he replies his BBM; when out with his girlfriend, he updates his social networks; when he’s at home, he locks himself up in the room doing things online; with his friends, he IMs them instead of talking face-to-face.
Slowly, we can see how he becomes distant and neglects his social activities with his friends and family. He has no time for leisure activities like gardening because he is busy virtually gardening in Farmville. We even get to see how he makes up excuses so that he may remain online. Instead of gaining friends in reality, he gains friends on his social networks.
We can see how people around him begin to feel neglected and unloved. Even his pet goldfish is neglected as he is too busy feeding his virtual pet in Neopets. We get to hear some confessions and worries from his family, girlfriend, and friends here.
Eventually, his family and friends confront him on his problem, and he is soon faced with a choice. To give up the internet, or his loved ones.
Treatment 2
1. Author: Lisa Tan
2. Title of show: The internet apocalypse
3. Format of show: Short film
4. Target audience: Families
5. Opportunity or problem addressed: To raise awareness to the negative implications of over using the internet
6. Desired response: An awareness from parents to be able to identify a problem in their kids.
7. Logline: When everything is available online, kids these days stay online without even feeling a thing. Find out how being hooked on the internet can have detrimental effects on oneself.
8. Themes: Reality-based, drama
9. Treatment:
The amount of things that can be done on the internet is limitless. Step into the live of June and her family. Her family assumes that she does research online but in fact, she’s an online gamer- from shooting zombies to building forts.
What may seem like a minute to June is in fact, an hour. Watch as she goes through her daily life with a habit of constantly staying online, be it her iPad or her Blackberry. Due to her being constantly distracted from the updates, her attention span in class is greatly reduced, thus, her grades has gone down as well. When she is faced with assignments, she copies and paste the whole paragraph and passes it off as her own work. All this so she can have more time to play her online games.
When June is unable to have internet connection, she begins to feel restless and uneasy. She gets irritated quickly and would sometimes snap at people. With her mood swings, people would then start distancing themselves from her.
When her parents finally decide to take away her mobile devices, we can finally see how crazy she becomes.
Treatment 3
1. Author: Lisa Tan
2. Title of show: The Signs
3. Format of show: Short film
4. Target audience: The younger generation and families
5. Opportunity or problem addressed: to help recognize the signs of excessive internet usage
6. Desired response: to be able to identify and help a person get through the problem
7. Logline: How exactly do you help someone when you know nothing about their problems? Look for the signs they are emitting of course! In this episode, we take a look into the new age problem, internet dependency
8. Themes: documentary style, reality based
9. Treatment:
To first help a person, you should be able to identify the problem they are facing. In this episode, we show the audiences the signs people emit when having a problem with excessive internet usage.
We use an actor, Mr John Smith to help demonstrate the problems the public face with this addiction. First off, it’s John Smith’s excessive use of an online gambling site. He begins to spend more time online and less time in the real world. We then get to observe the signs he shows when playing and when he’s not.
When John Smith is unable to gamble online, he begins to feel restless and irritable. He also lies to his peers and family about the amount of time he spends online. Slowly, John Smith’s health goes awry as he can’t sleep. He also begins to fail in his job as his work performance declines. These are the signs that are demonstrated in this episode to help viewers understand the dangers it may lead to.
