Week 1: Introduction: Are we all being cloned?

I am starting to think about my independent production project, and what to base my project around. Last year i based my second semester project around body form, but only concerntrated on a small part of such a huge topic. The media today in my opinion, has to much influence over society and contribute alot to how we should look- whether its how to make your hair look a certain way, our body to be how we see celebrities body look, even magazines have pages now where you can look exactly like one particular celebrity.

   Whilst researching on the internet it seems there are strong opinions on how much the media and magazines influence boys,girls, men, and women. I found an article online written by the daily mail about abercrombie and fitch designing padded bakinis for girls as young as 8! Not only are the media influencing members of the public who buy the clothes, the makeup, the hairstyles, but now the people who design and make the clothes!

Link to Daily mail article:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-1369949/Parents-fury-Abercrombie--Fitch-unveils-padded-bikinis-girls-young-eight.html


this got me thinking that with the media playing such a huge part in the way we should look, one day will we all end up looking the same? are we just little dolls that the media play with and dress up?




heres an interesting article i found on a media awareness website:

http://www.media-awareness.ca/english/issues/stereotyping/women_and_girls/women_beauty.cfm