Creating a fake profile

So after having a taste into the world of fake social networking characters, it was now time to create a fake profile. This person would have more than once social network and we would try and get what they were like across to social network users in a matter of a few days. In a group of four, we controlled what this person would say, do and how they acted. It wasn't set up with a weaver or any account, just us.

We decided to create a person who done, well not very much. Riley Scott was what you would call a 'typical lad' full of himself, lazy, into girls, doesn't work and has many bad habbits. He also has very bad grammer which we worked hard on getting across to show is lack of education.

Profile:
Riley Scott aka Riley da Rapper
Age 21
From Liverpool, Huyton
No job, dole supported
Interests Rapping, girls, smoking, not doing much and himself

One of our group members Tom, played the role of Riley dressing up in pictures to create Rileys look.

We first created a Facebook page for Riley, where he added a few random girls and other people. After a few status' and pictures. random people started to request to be a friend of Rileys, showing people will add anyone on social networks. We accpted them all but no one tried to contact Riley which was disspointing. We decided to create another profile called Missy. Missy played the role of Rileys on and off girlfriend creating banter and jokes across Rileys page showing his personality. One of the other groups profile added Riley and tried to firt with him creating competition between Missy and the other girl.
http://www.facebook.com/#!/profile.php?id=100003625547036

The next social network we created Riley was a twitter, this was just full of updates of what Riley was doing and some quoted from rappers and stars that he liked. No one contacted Riley yet people did retweet him. He also gained 11 followers that we didnt know of, again mainly girls.
https://twitter.com/#!/rileydarapper

The last social netwrok that we created Riley was a Tumblr account. This was slightly more complicated as it's not very easy at all to gain links with people on Tumblr and we didnt make any at all. Although the Tumblr did put Riley personality acorss very well and shown what he was into I felta s though no one seen this or learnt anything about Riley. We did want Riley to create some raps and perform them on a youtube account but we didn't have time to do this.
http://rileydarapper.tumblr.com/

I throughly enjoyed creating a fake profile which quite shocked me as I didn't like the sound of it at frst. I enjoyed developing a character into somethign which was quite comical to read about. I didn't expect random people to add the profile, especialy girls. This opened my eyes to the young and niave social networkers out there. Riley could have been anyone.

Fake profile

We ad to create a fake person using a Weaver. This included filling out a form asking you to list a seires of words which you would like your charcater to relate to. All the words that you list are what created the persons personality and character. I called my character Dosey Nosey, with the idea being she would be exctly like what her name was. Dosey and Nosey, quite a comical character. I then created a twitter for her, she started tweeting straight away, some of the tweets had a fun personality behind such as 'Marry the Night'. Dosey Nosey started tweeting everyt few minutes and then suddenly stopped, she had been disconected and cut off from the waever meaning it wouldn't acess Twitter anymore.

Reandom peopl started following this profile, I got up to 6 followers, they seemed like genuine profiles and were all girls. However when she got cut, they unfollowed leaving her with one follower, which was myself! This made me realise how many animated and computerised characters there might be out there, I never knew this was possible to do.

https://twitter.com/#!/DoseyNosey

Filming and editing our last film

So after going ahead and filming the idea of MMA fighting and following a fighter at the club who has won numerous titles and also has a different side to him, tattooing. This was an interesting story and we captured it well. I personally think that it is the best footage we have captured and probably the best idea we have came up with as a group. I quite enjoyed filming this as I felt positive about the film throughout the whole process which made everything a lot more enjoyable and interesting. Although camera work still isnt my favourite, I enjoy editing a lot more.

The editing process was just like the other films, hard work but a joy to see at the end. Seeing your work put together in a creative way makes you look back and enjoy the process that you have been through. This wa my last film that I will ever create on the course, it taught me a lot and I  enjoyed doing it.

Feedback
We went to our feedback session and received positive feedback which I am very pleased about. We weretold that we worked well throughout the year as a group and we produced good work all round. We were marked with a 2:1 which I am more than happy with!