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//Magazines - Will //

In magazines that circulate around newsagents there are many images that attempt to portray the "perfect" person, these people are usually very skinny (women) or very muscly (men) and the photograph taken of them is often manipulated further through photoshop or other similar editing programs.

Exposure to these images cause young teenagers to have health problems due to lack of food and depressive attitudes because they can't obtain the "perfect" body.

These health issues are bad for the growing teen because it means that they will lack self confidence or normal function all through their lives.

Women in magazines are very often looked at as sexual items which are used for men's pleasure. This can cause adult behaviour in children that are very young.

An ad that itemizes a young woman. //Television & movies- Christian// Now a days, teens, like you are very conscious about their weight, size, looks, body proportions and all other things that the “ideal person” has. The media has a massive influence on all of these things. Basically the ideal person is what the television or movie screen tells them it is.

Most television and movie shows people with ideal and almost unachievable look, personality and ability. The characters portrait these characteristics especially the main characters. Some of these television and movie characters are //Jennifer Anniston-friends, Sean Williams- Role models, Megan Fox-Transformer & Zac Efron-High School Musical .// // The TV and Cinema also tell teens, like you what types of people to bag out and tease because everyone on the screen does. These characters usually portrait people that are out of the ordinary which isn’t good because it restrains people from being themselves, so don’t worry if your different, but the reality is that you will get teased if you are different or bad at something, but this is wrong and there should be a stop to it. These are mainly characters from comedies. People like //Homer Simpson- the Simpsons, Christopher Mintz-Plasse- Role models and John Header- Napoleon Dynamite, Seth Rogan- Superbad. //Also, these media industries show who and what types of people we should like, and hang around with. Most shows and movies give us a normal everyday person to look at as our friend, a cool group of jocks and their hot girlfriends(too good for you type people), and a nerdy group(not good enough for us)which isn’t good in two ways. 1. It shows us that some people aren’t good enough for us to hang out with, which shouldn’t be the case. Because that’s why people become unpopular because they are classed as “uncool”. & 2. It shows that some people are too good for us so we don’t even try to meet them which is why people that some people become unpopular because they are classed as “uncool” because they aren’t in the popular group and whatever isn’t popular to the popular group is judged as unpopular. So basically don’t be shy, and make as many friends as you can.

A Visual Piece of media that I have chosen that shows how people should be, and how they shouldn’t is Role models. In role models, the character// Wheeler //is the perfect, music loving player style boy, who is always winning in life. Another character,// Danny// is the shy type, who doesn’t want to get involved, and eventually his wife leaves him, but once he gets out of his shell he gets her back. Then there’s Augie, the nerd, dungeons and dragons kid who is looked down upon by everyone and since no one likes him.

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