Ravensbourne Unit - Helena Bright's Development Portfolio by Helena Habaek Bright https://padlet.com/hbright12/Ravensbourneunit My Development Portfolio for my Documentary about Social Media's impact on mental health during the Covid-19 pandemic. The Padlet is ordered from top to bottom, Top = Beginning, Bottom = end. en-us 2021-02-14 13:55:49 UTC 2023-02-06 13:04:04 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet.net/icons/png/1f9e0.png SOUND - The 2nd Law: Isolated System - Muse (song) hbright12 https://padlet.com/hbright12/Ravensbourneunit/wish/1201119376 This song inspired me for this project. The Lyric 'In an isolated system entropy can only increase' led me to think about how our mental health has been impacted by the Covid-19 Pandemic, especially in our third lockdown where hope seems small and the light at the end of the tunnel has faded once again. ]]> 2021-02-14 13:57:56 UTC https://padlet.com/hbright12/Ravensbourneunit/wish/1201119376 Mental Health, Social Media usage and Covid-19 Research Article hbright12 https://padlet.com/hbright12/Ravensbourneunit/wish/1201132347 This Article did research on the connection of mental health and social media usage at the start of the Covid-19 Pandemic. The article states through a months research that the excessive exposure to disaster, in this case the constant news about the Covid-19 pandemic and the tragedies that followed, have caused an increase in depression. A higher social media use = worse mental health]]> 2021-02-14 14:06:05 UTC https://padlet.com/hbright12/Ravensbourneunit/wish/1201132347 Mental Health and Social Media Survey hbright12 https://padlet.com/hbright12/Ravensbourneunit/wish/1201196732 I created a Survey where __ people answered their opinions on how social media has impacted their mental health during the Covid-19 pandemic.

The survey asked the following 4 questions:
-  Do you feel that your mental health becomes better or worse after spending time on social media? 
-  Has social media made your mental health better or worse during the Covid-19 Pandemic? Why?
-  Do you feel that social media influencers are transparent enough, and show their emotions well enough? 
-  What changes would you like to see from social media platforms and influencers to make it a better place?]]> 2021-02-14 14:50:44 UTC https://padlet.com/hbright12/Ravensbourneunit/wish/1201196732 Social Media Influencer Carys Whittaker hbright12 https://padlet.com/hbright12/Ravensbourneunit/wish/1201216779 Carys whittaker, previous fitness blogger now turned body positivity influencer. Carys used to create content focused on her body and her fitness lifestyle. That was until 2020 where she realised that it was taking a negative toll on her mental health, having to constantly worry about becoming the smallest version of herself, even though she looked perfect in many peoples' opinions. She has now dedicated her profile to showing that you can be beautiful no matter how you look, and that beauty resides in confidence.

I've chosen to include Carys in my research as she is a great campaigner for body positivity and realness on social media, where she has a promise of doing at least one filter-less post on social media a day to keep her self real and transparent to her followers, instead of hiding behind a beauty filter.

Instagram link here]]> 2021-02-14 15:02:50 UTC https://padlet.com/hbright12/Ravensbourneunit/wish/1201216779 Social Media Influencer Helen Anderson hbright12 https://padlet.com/hbright12/Ravensbourneunit/wish/1201224532 Helen Anderson is a singer and influencer who became famous for her brightly coloured hair and alternative style. She has since her early days on social media been a huge advocate for self love, body positivity and transparency. She has publicly addressed many personal issues in her life online to help others who may be in the same situation.
 
I've chosen to use her in my research as I find her to be  a rolemodel of what an  influencer should be: Open, honest and transparent to a degree where they still have privacy, but they are still very honest about their lives.

Instagram link here]]> 2021-02-14 15:07:02 UTC https://padlet.com/hbright12/Ravensbourneunit/wish/1201224532 Documentary Logline hbright12 https://padlet.com/hbright12/Ravensbourneunit/wish/1206478611 A group of individuals resign from social media for 1-3 months to see if they can better their lives. Will they return to the platforms as refreshed people or simply fall back into old habits?]]> 2021-02-16 11:07:21 UTC https://padlet.com/hbright12/Ravensbourneunit/wish/1206478611 Question 1 Graph from my primary research survey hbright12 https://padlet.com/hbright12/Ravensbourneunit/wish/1223640099 Do you feel that your mental health becomes better or worse after spending time      on social media?

46.7% stated they felt their mental health becomes worse after spending time on social media. 
6.7% stated they felt their mental health became better after spending time on social media 

The remaining 46.6% stated that their mental health on social media depended on what type of content they were viewing, what app they were using while some felt it didn't change anything at all. ]]> 2021-02-21 16:37:49 UTC https://padlet.com/hbright12/Ravensbourneunit/wish/1223640099 Question 2 from my primary research survey hbright12 https://padlet.com/hbright12/Ravensbourneunit/wish/1231057175 Has social media made your mental health better or worse during the Covid-19 Pandemic? Why?

13 People answered worse due to feelings of loneliness, jealousy and other negative emotions.
5 People answered better due to factors such as communication and fitness videos. 
10 People answered it varied from the content and their mood while on social media. ]]> 2021-02-23 12:35:06 UTC https://padlet.com/hbright12/Ravensbourneunit/wish/1231057175 Question 3 from my primary research survey hbright12 https://padlet.com/hbright12/Ravensbourneunit/wish/1231062475 Do you feel that social media influencers are transparent enough, and show their emotions well enough?

23 people answered No, that influencers aren't transparent enough.
2 people answered yes, that the influencers they follow are transparent enough
2 People answered they don't follow influencers are therefore didn't feel like  they could answer the question.]]> 2021-02-23 12:36:43 UTC https://padlet.com/hbright12/Ravensbourneunit/wish/1231062475 Question 4 from my primary research survey hbright12 https://padlet.com/hbright12/Ravensbourneunit/wish/1231083521 What changes would you like to see from social media platforms and influencers to make it a better place?

In the image below are all the responses from the survey. The answers that seemed to repeat themselves were the following: 
-  That social media platforms need to regulate the use of photoshop or other body/face altering filters to create a more normalised image of the human body.
-  That influencers need to speak their mind and been more honest with their followers (be that about their lives or emotions) 
- That social media platforms remove follower and like numbers to make social media a more neutral place, less competitive. ]]> 2021-02-23 12:43:19 UTC https://padlet.com/hbright12/Ravensbourneunit/wish/1231083521 THEME: Fake hbright12 https://padlet.com/hbright12/Ravensbourneunit/wish/1231102661 I decided to go with the theme fake  because I feel there is a lack of honesty on social media. We want to show people the best parts of our lives, be that engagements, holidays or going out, but the reality is that many people have a lot of struggles that they choose to hide from social media. We want people to see the good parts of us, even tho the reality is that there's a lot more depth to us as people. 

Focusing on social media influencers such as the Kardashians and Jenners, we only see the best parts of their lives on e.g. Instagram, where many people following may feel depressed watching people live what seems to be a no-struggle lifestyle. 

The Theme Fake connects with my song. My song, being about how we feel isolated can create a further disconnect with people we follow on social media, when we feel alone compared to people who e.g. have been breaking lockdown or gone on holiday during the covid-19 pandemic.

The Problem I would like to solve is the lack of transparency and realness on social media, and how to make social media better for our mental health.


]]> 2021-02-23 12:49:16 UTC https://padlet.com/hbright12/Ravensbourneunit/wish/1231102661 Outcome hbright12 https://padlet.com/hbright12/Ravensbourneunit/wish/1231293721 My outcome from my  song "The 2nd Law: Isolated System" and my theme "Fake" is to create a documentary.

My idea is to create a documentary focusing on the effects of social media usage on our mental health. The plan is to bring in a group of individuals who will leave all social media platforms for 3 months, to see if their mental health becomes better or worse. After these three months are over, we’ll come back to them 3 months later when they are back to using social media, and see what has happened after they’ve reentered the online world. 
In this documentary I also want to draw in interviews with social media influencers, with different online presences (be it fashion models, family bloggers or fitness trainers) and talk to them about if they feel they are completely honest on social media, if they feel like they contribute to the mental health issues online or if they can make a difference with the content they create. I would also like to interview a group of secondary school, six form and university students to see what their perspective is on social media. 
]]> 2021-02-23 13:33:34 UTC https://padlet.com/hbright12/Ravensbourneunit/wish/1231293721 Welcome to my Development Portfolio! hbright12 https://padlet.com/hbright12/Ravensbourneunit/wish/1232254217 Hello and welcome to my development portfolio. 
Start here and scroll down to reveal my research process and outcome for the Ravensbourne Unit. 
Here you will find my inspirational sound, my choice of theme, my secondary and primary research, my documentary treatment and my outcome.]]> 2021-02-23 16:19:21 UTC https://padlet.com/hbright12/Ravensbourneunit/wish/1232254217 Documentary Treatment hbright12 https://padlet.com/hbright12/Ravensbourneunit/wish/1232688974 To support my outcome I've created a treatment for the documentary I want to create about how mental health and social media connects. ]]> 2021-02-23 17:32:37 UTC https://padlet.com/hbright12/Ravensbourneunit/wish/1232688974 TED Talk about quitting social media hbright12 https://padlet.com/hbright12/Ravensbourneunit/wish/1235778099 In this TED talk by Cal Newport, the idea of the need for social media is broken down. Newport explains that he feels social media isn't a necessity in our world, as it ruins our concentration levels, and that social media has through research proven to make us feel more lonely and/or isolated. ]]> 2021-02-24 11:35:17 UTC https://padlet.com/hbright12/Ravensbourneunit/wish/1235778099 TED talk about The Impact of Social Media on Youth hbright12 https://padlet.com/hbright12/Ravensbourneunit/wish/1235785044 Katanau explains in her TED talk that the mere idea that we're spending so much time on social media means that it will have an everlasting impact on us. We are able to educate ourselves and improve our skillsets via social media, but instead we are destroying ourselves and each other without noticing. 
She states that Insecurity, Social currency (Likes in exchange for approval) and FOMO (Fear of missing out) are factors that have grown immensely due to social media among teenagers, and there is a risk that these factors can develop into long-lasting mental health issues. ]]> 2021-02-24 11:38:05 UTC https://padlet.com/hbright12/Ravensbourneunit/wish/1235785044