MY proposal:
How Photoshop has an effect on teenagers and how they perceive body image.
How it all started:
Around the last couple of weeks before the end of the 1st Quarter of our U of U Humanities class, Our teacher, Mr. Hernandez asked us to each grab a partner and together make a Presentation and teach/discuss with the class about a particular issue that occurs among st adolescences today. It could have been about anything we wanted and anything we thought needed to be talked about. I and my partner, Natalie Falemaka went through several topics, until we decided on the proposal above.
We went through many different ideas and concepts of how to properly present our claim of Photoshop messing with our perception of body image and what "beauty" is really supposed to look like without boring our class to tears with another lecture. Until we finally came up with the game: Real or Fake. The point of the game was to look at a picture of a model/celebrity/what-have-you and have to guess if the picture was a real picture of the person or if it was fake and touched by Photoshop.
(Needless to say, it fooled a lot of the peers in my classroom) |
Why did i do this?:
I wanted to make people aware that although Photoshop may be used for many good things, it can also be used for bad. By bad, I mean many people, especially teenagers look at these altered images in magazines, movies, etc. and think that that is what beauty is supposed to look like and are lead to believe that that is reality when it is not. It also leads to dangerous things, one of which is something we hear about called Eating Disorders. I wanted to make people aware that although Photoshop can be good, it can also be bad and incredibly misleading.
research:
Our Mentor: Jose Hernandez, my Humanities teacher
What we found: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adobe_Photoshop,
What we found: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adobe_Photoshop,
Watch the presentation and play the game here:
https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1JSlfpZzJzg53Hh6rHY0dh-EX6wIPgBiAdXnS7xqTAaE/edit#slide=id.gf3f169f43_1_56