Girls and Media

Get cameras - 15 flipcamsGet speakers and wireless keyboard and mouseGEMS YouTube space- IDVD

Day 18:45 - 1010:45 - 11:45

Introduction to project "Packaging you Inner Beauty" - what will people not know about youby looking at you - what's on the inside. Capture real beauty - (formerly "This is Me" )

1. Media images (what does the media say?)

2. Song - pick prompts

3. Dove #1 - EvolutionNo wonder our perception of beauty is distorted

4. Dove #2 - Image manipulation

5. Dove #3 - Interactive: Body facts and fiction

6. Magazine CoversAsk students to categorize the text on popular magazine covers. How often does itaddress outer appearances and how often does it address other aspects of aperson?Discuss how these types of magazines help (or do not help) foster the developmentof a well-rounded person?

Who benefits from this advertising?7.

I see beauty in me...My beauty is...circle the things that you believe to be true about youMy beautiful self is...Beauty to me...

Show top 10 healthy advertising images1. Discuss "real beauty"- what makes someone beautiful?

◦ Make a List of Women or Girls You Admire◦ Write words or phrases to describe what you admire her for?◦ Make a check mark by anything on your list that has to do with her

appearance◦ How often is the woman's (girl's) appearance a reason that you admire her?◦ What would you like someone to most admire in you? In herself?

2. India Arie song - Video

3. Begin to Write:

Choose your own prompt from this song...

If I could put inner beauty in a package I would...

If inner beauty could be packaged it would look like...

Brainstorm with your group, how you could show inner beauty with a video camera, yourfriends and the campus as your tools. write, draw or web out your ideas.

Day 2

Discuss video techniquesWhat's with the Hijab? - TV by girls

Introduction to camerasCreate iMovie projectDownload practice footage

Day 3

Intro to video editingDownloading footageEditing footageNarratingFinding and adding Music

Day 4

video editingpresent

STATSIn terms of quantity, the media is still a long way from reflecting reality : women represent49 per cent of humanity while female characters make up only 32 per cent of the maincharacters on TV, as shown by a broad survey done in 2008 by Doctor Maya Götz of theInternational Central Institute for Youth and Educational Television.

So far as quality is concerned, the media still conform to a stereotyped image of women.Götz’s study identifies a number of sexual stereotypes found around the world : in general,girls and women are motivated by love and romance, appear less independent than boys,and are stereotyped according to their hair colour

Magazines are the only medium where girls are over-represented. However,almost 70 percent of the editorial content in teen mags focuses on beauty and fashion, and only 12 percent talks about school or careers.