Emma McDonald

Unit 22 Learning Objective 1

‘Cyber Bully’

‘Cyber Bully’• The director is Ben Chanan.• Release date is 15th January 2015/• Format is a single drama.• Genre is docu-drama thriller.

Narrative Structure• The single drama’s narrative structure is

linear and realist. It was linear because it all happened in order and there was no flashbacks or flash-forwards, it was all in the moment, which also makes it a realist drama as in real life, it would happen the same way.

• This is important because of how intense the drama is, it needs to appear real so the audience doesn’t get confused.

Story Arc

Beginning Middle End

Exposition

Inciting incident

Rising Action

CrisisClimax

Falling Action

Resolution

Casey is talking to Megan on Skype and tells her that her ex boyfriend has written an offensive tweet about her.

Someone messages her pretending to be her friend but she soon realises that it isn't him, she also discovers that he has photos of her.

Her father leaves the house leaving Casey in a more vulnerable environment.

Hacker claims Casey to be a cyber bully.

Casey realises that it was the hacker who pretended to be her ex boyfriend to send the tweet.

Casey finds out that Jennifer Li committed suicide after being trolled and hated on for her videos.

The hacker forces Casey to admit to being a bully and then makes her take extra medication.

The hacker posts pictures of Casey’s friend online.

Casey figures out that the way the hacker is speaking, is the same way a status was written.

Megan is on the phone to her dad and she realises that her real identity is more important than her online identity.

Casey knows that her friends don’t believe it is her that is doing it all. Casey shuts

down her laptop and walks out of her room causing her to be free from the hacker.

Technical Editing - Sound• The drama uses diegetic sound such as Casey

tapping the keyboard, this is used to show the realism and simplicity of the narrative. Also, towards the beginning of the drama, Casey is listening to music on her laptop and the song keeps changing, which is diegetic sound, this is used to create tension and basically informing the audience that something is going to happen.

• The drama also uses non-diegetic sound such as intense music, to build the tension and again, foreshadow that something bad is going to happen.

Technical Editing - Camera• The drama regularly uses close ups of Casey so we can

thoroughly see her facial expression reacting to everything that is occurring.

• The drama also uses a low angle, through the laptop camera, this is used to show the dominance that the hacker has over Casey.• Zoom in and zoom outs are often used to create tension as it

often gives the idea that something is going to happen as it slowly zooming in or out.

• A very important shot that was used was a birds eyes view shot of Casey’s room, it is important because it is showing the audience that Casey is almost trapped in her room and that there is no escape for her.

Technical Editing – Mise en scene

• Throughout the whole drama, the lighting is incredibly dark, showing that Casey is in a bad place and that isn't anything good happening, and this is the same throughout the drama up until the very end when she finally walks away from her laptop and leaves her room to which the lighting changes to a very bright environment.

Technical Editing - Editing• Throughout the whole drama it has

continuity editing which adds to the realism of the drama because if this was a real life situation, it wouldn’t cut to the past and have flashbacks, things happen in the moment, which means they had to keep it continuous and real.