here are all the finished pictures of my project... i still want to do medias target of children but i've been hving trouble trying to steal a child.
i have decided to put the cosmetics and ads. in the book and the fast food in the hall (i think)...

i plan on pairing this picture up with a picture of magazine ads and maybe a photo of a television commercial and add a quote about how much money is spent every year on advertising. the only thing i dont like about this photo is that it is a real estate ad. i wish it were an advertisement promoting the buying of specific products but i guess this will have to do for now. if i get the chance i will retake the photograph with a different billboard.

1] what is the nature of your photographic study?
In this project, i wanted to demonstrate how commercials and other advertisements we see twenty four seven not only try to sell the product, but they sell an image.

2] what was your initial source of interest in this line of inquiry?
Initially, i wanted to show how people are effected by the advertisements they see.

3] what is the point/purpose?
People spend millions of dollars every year on products that make them look cool and although they they may spend tons of money to be "perfect" like the models in advertisements, they still fell worthless and continue to spend money on the products that will make them "perfect". The purpose of my project is to show how exactly people are effected by the advertisements they see.

4] were there any specific people or circumstances from which you found inspiration or guidance?
i drew alot of inspiration from the music i listen to. in the summer i tend to listen to alot of punk rock, which has a reputation of being a genre of music that is very outspoken. there is a music video by the band anti-flag called this is the end which had lots of different statistics and at the last statistic in the video is something like "millions of dollars are spent every year to make you feel worthless". This statement is kind of what got me interested in the idea.

5] how did the visiting artist guide your project? how did it change or evolve from beginning to end?
Cathy gave me advice, helped me come up with a few ideas, and reassured me that i had some good ideas and it would work out. My project evolved a bit from my original idea. At first i was planning on just photographing the people, but that evolved into doing a diptic with people using a product and the actual product. I also added facts with i think help make more of a stronger statement.

6] what have you learned? how has your opinion/belief/outlook changed?
i still feel the same about how people are influenced by the media and doing this project i learned

7] what happens next?
I have a few more pictures to finish. I have a pictures with ads in magazines that i just need to put together and add a fact. I also am thinking about stealing my friends little sister and doing one of how ads. specifically target children. The final piece i do for this project, i am thinking of incorporating billboards, or just maybe a fact about advertising in general.

Here is another piece of the project i have done. I still may make some changes, but this is what i have for now.

a mark for their marketing plan...

here is my first finished piece of this project. hopefully, it is a example of what i am planning to do with rest of my project. i had a couple different versions of this photograph, but i think i like this one the best. let me know what you think.
^_^ mary

Proposal [Revised]

My proposal idea is still the same, however, i have made a few changes from my original plan. originally i planned on using black and white, as you can see i have shifted a bit more towards digital. this does not mean that i will not included some black and white photographs in the project. i also now plan on pairing up each photograph of some one being effected by media with and image of what effects them and i would also like to add a fact or statistic with each photograph. For example, if i have a picture of someone watching television i might write "the average person spends about two years of their life watching commercials" under it...

A few more pictures...

here are a few more picture i took when my sister was getting ready . i a am still not sure how much i like these of if i am even going to use them...



UPDATE
** As of April 16th I have decided that I am not going to use these pictures. You can just ignore them... I'm still going to leave them up, but they wont be on the final project.

My project is based on the effect of media on society; how the media effects our lives each and every day. Each year millions of dollars and countless hours are spent by people to make themselves look "perfect". To demonstrate this i found it necessary to photograph people doing things they do in their daily lives that maybe wouldn't be so important if it were not for the constant pressure's of society.

special thanks to my sister rachel for being so nice and letting my photograph her for once :)

Laura Burlton's Fairy Tales and Nightmares

Laura Burlton uses a holga to take pictures of young girls they are all wearing white dresses ans some have bunny masks. they way she sets it up seems very eerie and dream-like. fairy tales and nightmares is the perfect title to this series because the pictures demonstrate a very dreamy quality. This is a more artistic series rather than journalistic because shes not just fallowing the girls around and photographing them, shes giving them things to do. the series is a little frightening to me because when i think of my childhood i like to think of the happy things and the "nightmare" aspect of this series makes me alittle uneasy.however, this series makes the nightmares beautiful and thats why i like it. i cannot really compare this photographs to my life because they remind me of a destorted reality but i like that.

Proposal

Americans are exposed to over 3000 ads a day and the number of commercials we watch roughly adds up to about 2 years of our lives. However many argue that that they are not influenced by the media. It is my opinion that the ads on billboards we see driving to work each day and the endless number of commercials we watch during reruns of our favorite tv shows are selling more than just products. They are selling an image of who we are suppposed to be; how we should think, feel, and act.
The sad part is most people refuse to recagnize how much media truley does affect thier lives. With this project, i plan to show exactly how much our live are affected by the ads on billboards, magazines, and television.
I already have a few ideas of how to accomplish this goal, but i still need to work it out alittle. A rough idea of what i was thinking is photographing people reading their favoritve magazines staring at ads of supermodels which they could never be, but maybe if they looked like this or acted like that they woulkd be alittle closer to that goal... i can picture it in my head but i can really puit it in words.... hopefully i'll be able to pull something off :) I'm thinking of doing this project in black and white because i like the effect but i may mix it up aliitle and try something different.