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Another one of my ideas that I am still working on is the media's effect on body image. Magazines and television shows have been infamous for visually showing consumers what to wear and eat and structuring the culture around us. Girls these days are slimming down to try to fit in smaller and smaller sizes. You watch fashion shows and see models that are smaller than size zero sporting the newest trends. The female population looks up to that an tries to achieve these looks. The media has constructed these images of perfection. The population allots so much time in trying to attain these ideas of perfection when we have the most obese population in the world. There is a difference between being healthy and slim and wanting to lose weight in an impossible amount of time in order to look like those models and celebrities in the magazine stands and tv sets. What most women do not know is that a lot of these photos are photoshopped and tweaked before it goes for print. This desire to be thin has become a fad and is life threatening.

One way to go about portraying this idea in a documentary is to compare and contrast average Americans to the images portrayed in the media. I can also note eating trends of Americans and the many ads and marketing geared towards a smaller waisted population. The Dove campaign about having real women off the streets as models for their ads is a great new approach to fighting these images in the media. Interviewing direct consumers f this media would e great footage for my documentary to see their take on what they think about the media's role in its affect on body image.