Body Image

Should photoshopping be illegal?

Throughout the media body image is represented in different ways.

Throughout the fashion industry, the "healthy" body imagine is portrayed a skinny or size zero. Many media institutions have picked up on this and have now begun to create their own representation of how people should look. The main controversy in the media world is that photoshopping faces or bodies of models should be illegal because it "lowers young people's self esteem".
Even though photoshopping makes model look different to how they are in real life, but it sells products easier, if someone sees a beautiful girl portrayed in a clothes or perfume advert they would want to buy that product which makes more money for the company.

In my opinion, photoshopping models should not be illegal for a number of different reasons. The main reason being that it makes people want to buy more products when they see a beautiful face on the side of a product. This makes a very effective marketing scheme to attract customers, because the viewers of the advert will believe that using the product will make them as beautiful as the model shown.

Further more, when people say it lowers young people's self esteem, it does not. It creates a healthy body image for young people to follow, if it does lower their self esteem it will just cause them to strive to become healthier. On the other hand, "healthy" body images in the fashion industry may create an unhealthy representation of body image, in the fashion world size zero is shown as healthy and beautiful, where as in reality many models suffer from being malnourished.

Throughout the media world (being on the internet or TV etc.) people will always try to sway your opinions on things. On the internet a lot of people will try to tell you what sort of girl/boy you SHOULD be attracted to. I once saw a comment on a forum stating "real men don't like skinny girls" but further on in the forum a man put "real men like who ever they want" which I completely agree with.

Presentation - https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1TAbHt6rcOG5XfNQ95e9xzw9wLmOaoOLssBDv2pkl858/edit?usp=sharing

www.dailymail.co.uk

"Murray hits top form at Queen's before celebs Branson, Ross and Johnson join him on court as Hutchins watches on"

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/tennis/article-2342798/Andy-Murray-joined-court-Queens-Boris-Johnson-Michael-McIntyre-Tim-Henman.html


This story has several news values, currency may be the main news value because the story is very valuable at the moment, due to Andy Murray winning the Queen's after beating Marin Cilic. Simplicity is also a very big news value because it is a simple story but it's also humorous and easy to understand.

Positive Representation of British Youth

Tom Daley

Currently aged 19, he has multiple awards in the Olympics and other tournaments. The media world has warped everybody's (mostly the older generation) opinion of the younger generation. This could be done by program on TV, films, general news stories etc. Because the media industries know that if a story is negative about youth then it will get more views because everyone will jump on the "bang-wagon" and start despising young people.

Positive representation in the media is very hard to come by but in the 2012 Olympics there were many young people who won gold, silver or bronze. Tom Daley for example, after recently losing his father a year ago Tom Daley won a bronze medal in the Olympic Games (after winning 4th place, he received a tweet that said something along the lines of "your father isn't proud of you", soon after the person who sent this tweet was arrested)