- 1. Body Image and Beauty Standards Arts and Entertainment
Coverage
2. How would you change this photograph to attract your
audience? SCENARIO: You are the arts director of a popular
entertainment magazine. You need a cover photo that will attract
readers to your magazine over others. 3. Changes: Before and After
Photoshop
- Tanner/ More Glowing Skin
- Flab of skin on opposite shoulder removed
Watchthis videoto see the types of editing Photoshop is capable
of. 4. Imperfections in Entertainment Media
- The media avoids natural beauty because focusing on this would
not allow them to make as much money. In order to collect a profit,
entertainment media finds ways to make people insecure.
- Natural body features: teeth, nose, eyes, mouth, chin, hair,
etc.
5. Body Image and Advertising
- The media uses this ideal beauty image to increase sales. Using
thisunrealisticimage, entertainment media creates a standard for
viewers who will go out and try to buy the products that will give
them the image they see in the advertisement.
A good example of this can be seen in the medias creation of
makeover shows such as ABCS Extreme Makeover. 6. Effects of
AdvertisingLinkto the study 7. Shaping Body Image
- Extreme, Permanent Methods:
- Liposuction/ Fat Injections
ReadhereaboutThe Hillsstar Heidi Montags experience with plastic
surgery. 8. Controversy: Retouching
- On the cover of GQ in 2003:
- "The retouching is excessive. I do not look like that and more
importantly I don't desire to look like that.
- "I actually have a Polaroid that the photographer gave me on
the day of the shoot I can tell you they've reduced the size of my
legs by about a third. For my money it looks pretty good the way it
was taken."
- Magazine Editor, Dylan Jones:
- "These pictures are not a million miles away from what she
really looks like.
- "Kate is currently thinner than I have ever seen her, petite
and sexy."