What
is beauty? Everyone has their own opinion on what beauty is and what makes
someone beautiful, but unfortunately most people are heavily influence by the
twisted portrayal of beauty that the media has etched into our minds. Dove's Onslaught video cleverly and artistically displays the mind altering displays
of unrealistic perfection through photo shopping and airbrushing. The first
frame of the video shows a young girl starring into the camera; the innocence
she represents is extremely symbolic. The camera focuses on her face for
several frames until at the camera starts to show a consistent stream of images
that portray the distorted image of beauty that the media tries to play off as
"natural." The camera zooms through the pictures so fast that
it bombards the viewers mind and they become overwhelmed. This is a strategic
filming technique to get the viewers full attention and to draw them into the
video. The images and clips that are pieced together to create the video go
through different stages that are arranged in a cause and effect like order.
The images first start out as just ads displaying overly edited photos of women
then switches to some short clips that voice how women should improve
themselves in order to become like them women in the photos. Dove is trying to
show how this is psychologically damaging to the minds of girls of all ages.
This becomes evident when the clips and images of women resorting to plastic
surgery and eating disorders in order to try to attain the impossible image the
media is playing off as "beauty."
The
final frames of the video shoe the young girl we saw before, the innocence she
represented has been stripped away. Her sweet subtle smile is gone and her once
make-up free face now has a fresh coat of cosmetics spread upon it. You see her
walking across the street following a group of girls her age; she has become
yet another "follower," which is what happens when young girls are
expose to the suggestive pictures of fake perfection that they are brainwashed
into believing is normal and beautiful. The media took away her innocence, what
are they taking away from you?
I also wrote about this topic. I agree that the media is definitely taking away the innocence of children today, not just on this level, but they are also exposed to more things that as a kid I was not exposed to. At some point this exposure will have gone to far.
ReplyDeleteI agree with what you have written, also with what Drew commented about children being more exposed to media and beauty pressure. How far does it actually have to go before we actually stop the pressure and exposure to unrealistic beauty measures. Not only for children, but also the older ones to such as teenagers.
ReplyDeleteI agree with your prompt but in my opinion there is no such thing as beauty or ugly everyone is unique in their own way what brings beauty and ugliness about is what society accepts and believes what people are supposed to look like when really its a huge part of a social norm in psychology, there isn't any written law that says this is beauty and what is socially accepted everyone puts their pants on the same way what matters most is the personality behind all is what separates a beautiful person to the most ugly person living and an "ugly" person to the most beautiful person walking
ReplyDeleteI agree that young children are being attacked with subliminal messages of "beauty". Children need to be taught that real beauty is within.
ReplyDeleteThis video got me thinking about my future, and hopefully someday I will have kids. Its sad to think that as many times as I can tell them that they are beautiful and amazing some add can change how they view themselves.
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