The Joy Of Txt
The vast amount of technology that was introduced and embraced during the ten years that form the noughties is immense in comparison to every previous decade. Various forms of the introduced technology have led to people communicating in very different ways, many of which it would now be difficult to imagine day to day life without. One such form of communication is the use of text messages sent from one mobile phone to another. As this form of communication grew more widely used a seemingly endless list of specifically intended abbreviations, acronyms and combination of symbols was created that would later be broadly known as text talk.
My intention should this subject matter be commissioned for creation is to explore a number of interconnecting elements that the use and understanding of ‘text talk’ has had on the way that people communicate. These elements will include the social and academic impacts, generational opinions, professional opinions and posing the questions in order to discover and structure a well rounded view as to what the public as a whole think of the use of text talk in regards to whether it is a good or bad element of communication. Ultimately leading to a discovery of whether if normal people living in Briton are even bothered by its use or believe it to simply be the next eventual stage of the progression of the English language.
The way that I intend to present this to the audience would be through a mixture of interviews with professional individuals such as linguists, teachers and possibly representative from the English dictionary. I would also be keen to include a section where people that are aware but not necessarily frequent users of text talk would attempt to decode or interpret the meaning of pre set phrases written in text talk form which should keep the commission light hearted rather than hard hitting.
We've had some thoughts on this and so far we have been able to plan this...
10 minute documentary – The Joy Of Text
1) Introduction
2) Background
3) Secondary teacher interview
4) Public interview youth
5) Public interview middle aged
6) University lecturer interview
7) Public interview older
8) Decoding
9) Conclusion
Hypothesis – Question we want to answer – Is texting being used to exclude people? (has it become a cult)? Is it affecting academic behaviour?
Element – 3 proper interviews (public), visible interviewer/presenter (makes it more relaxed and fun). Title sequence – Different phones showing the title “The Joy Of Text”, The Matrix introduction? Actuality – talking to the public. Archive is better to be recreated. The story will come out of the question.
30 seconds of something before the title sequence – 15-20 second title. 1 min of in depth background which leads onto the first interview secondary school teacher interview and then youth interview. Presenter break up.
Youth breakdown of a sentence, teacher breakdown the same message.
(Break ups – something to do with the generation)
Interview middle aged public (business section)
University lecturer interview
Public interview older person
Original decoding segment.
Conclusion.
217 million texts a day in the UK. 6.5 billion texts per month in the UK.
When did phones come in. The advance in technology. How did it happen? Is it a good thing?
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