Monday, December 7, 2009

Media Shaping Gender Roles

For my final project, I am writing an article discussing the results of an interview I conducted on my 10 year old and 13 year old siblings pretaining to gender roles. I used visual medias such as magazines and YouTube videos to exhibit how these images unconciously influenced thier ideologies. Based on the responses I recieved from my questions, I concluded that the media manipulates the way we preceive ourselves and what we believe what our roles are from a young age.



Below are the three YouTube videos I showed to my siblings during the interviews:





w o m e n...a n d...d a n c e
For my project, I am doing a survey on the representation of women in dance.
I will be interviewing several dancers from both Latin America and Eurpoe on their experience as a woman in the dance world and the challenges they have faced as a result of machismo (sexism), the female image, etc.
I will also be incorporating outside research that I have done on this topic.
I am looking forward to sharing my discoveries with you, and I hope you enjoy!

Media Final Project


For my final project I made a short video documentary centered around the question: Do you think women can play professional "male" sports?
The documentary is based only on opinion. I did have two competitions against various boys and girls to help support some opinions, and at the end there are three facts of females who have got pretty far playing in an all males sport, but I tried to keep it all opinion based, because I had to keep it short and I did not want to deter from the main question on how people view females playing in a "males" sports world.


Women...and the Media- Final Project

A documentary style video; I interviewed six girls which was then narrowed down to four interviews for the video, then I acted the interviews out and filmed them. I talked with them about different issues women face today

-What is a women's role?
-What is YOUR role
-What are your thoughts about the media?

Through that I was able to see the differences between the four women, but more importantly the similarities.


Sunday, December 6, 2009

Think. a piece on beauty.

This is a rough cut of entitled "Think. a piece on beauty." Basic thought: its time for Christian artists to redefine "beauty." i set out to find some of the best Christian artists i knew to help me define beauty and introduce how they use their craft to do just that. bear with me. theres no transitions, barely any b-roll and no music. hence: "rough cut." :)


Have mercy everyone! lol. My piece is not done, but I'm confident it will be by next week :)



Gender Inequality in Iran

Hi everyone, I am posting on the blog my PowerPoint presentation on Gender Inequality in Iran. My research paper provides reasons provided by scholars on the remaining social problem of Gender inequality in Iran. The following PowerPoint presents a brief summary of my paper which included an outline of the potential reasons for gender inequality.






Media and Anorexia


I created a 4 1/2 minute informational video about how media is one of the leading causes for anorexia amongst young women. The video includes interviews by women who express their opinion about media's effect on women.

Please click the link below to view.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8OA5uvmTt0A