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Searching for the real girl

Searching for the real girl. Peeking Behind the Curtain of the Celebrity Beauty Machine. Today’s focus: beauty in the media. Who are your favourite “beautiful people”?

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Searching for the real girl

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  1. Searching for the real girl Peeking Behind the Curtain of the Celebrity Beauty Machine

  2. Today’s focus: beauty in the media • Who are your favourite “beautiful people”? • We see these beautiful people in teen magazines, in ads and posters, and on the web and other media. Are they the real thing? (thumbs up, thumbs down) • Sometimes we look up to celebrities as role models. We want to be like them. Is that possible? (thumbs up, thumbs down)

  3. Today’s agenda • PowerPoint: “Perfection” in the media • Think-pair-share • Class discussion • Individual assignment: Create a digital poster to communicate a message about the media’s influence on body image.

  4. What message are these ads sending? • Who created these messages and why? • What do these ads tell you about what is the ideal body? • Could anyone ever match this version of perfection? • How does that make you feel?

  5. Who is included in these images? • How well does it reflect reality? • Who is left out? • What does this say about beauty in the media? Although trends are changing, advertising in North America used to use only Caucasion models. How does that make you feel?

  6. These magazine covers show a few of the “beautiful people.” • Do these women represent “perfection”? • What is perfection?

  7. Do these women represent “perfection”? • How do you know?

  8. What has to happen to change an ordinary looking person into a cover girl?

  9. Is the “perfection” that we see in ads real? What is the difference between these two photographs? Dove Commercial Makeover Girl Makeover Guy Celebrity Perfection Obsession

  10. Do you think images of men are • photoshoped, too? • Are these images of the ideal • male possible to live up to? • What is the overt • (surface) message? • What is the implied • (hidden) message?

  11. Photoshoping the Image Link to Photoshoping Video As you watch the video, take notes. Make a list of types of changes the digital artist makes to the model’s Image.

  12. Let’s compare notes (Think-pair-share) • Extend your list of changes by comparing notes with a partner. • Extend your list of changes by comparing notes with another pair. • Count up the types of changes you noticed, and then compare them at the class level.

  13. Let’s discuss (Class discussion) • Do you understand better why celebrities always look fabulous in the media? (thumbs up, thumbs down) • Is it possible for ordinary people to measure up? (thumbs up, thumbs down) • How does the media image of beauty affect what we think about our own bodies? • Why would people react in different ways to fabricated beauty in the media? • How could becoming more aware of what the media does help us change our ideas about our own body image?

  14. Poster Campaign to Encourage Media Literacy • Search through the Internet, teen and fashion magazines, and other media for advertisements. Find one good example of “perfection” that you believe would be hard to live up to. • Scan your image or save it from a web site to create a .jpg file. • Import your image into MS Word or a computer graphics program. • Create a mini-poster with your visual. The purpose of your poster is to increase awareness about the effects media images can have on healthy body image. Think about how you can get across that message effectively. • Give your poster a title and a caption of a few sentences. • Share your mini-poster with your classmates.

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