Body Image Videos & Articles #18

The first youtube video was "Dove Evolution". This video was about one girl that was not so good looking. Who enter a makeup studio that transformer into a model looking person. When the video is being fast forward, the makeup artiest is adding all kinds of makeup to cover her dark spots on her face. As time pass the hair stylish adds hair onto her head. Now that the lady has longer hair they start curling it. Once the lady is finish being transformed the photographer starts taking glamor shots of her. And finally picks the one they want to use. Since she had more of a model look they just have to add a little more detail to make her look more nice. The photographer now crops her picture. They make her neck more high, shapes her shoulder in and just add more finish touches to really make her looks like she was really a model and display her on the billboard. When the model is done with all the touch ups he pictures are posted on a bulletin in some streets. At the end of the video it says "No wonder our perception of beauty is distorted".


The second video was "Dove Onslaught". The video was almost the same as the other one. The only differences was that the model was going backwards in time. This video shows how they turned a big guy into a skinny model. When the camera rewinds they show him smoking drinking and eating all kinds of food. As time goes by the models face becomes more larger than what it was at the beginning. When the video gets to the middle point the model is now larger and looks very different from the start. The people in the back ground are surrounding all around him with different kinds of food and all kinds of drinks. They are feeding him a lot of food and all kinds of sodas, tea, and water. As time passes the model gets fat and the camera people crops him. In the picture the model is getting larger and larger. The crop picture is being stretch and making him wider. At the end of the video the editor crops his face and puts him back to how he really looks. And it says "Thank God our perception of real like is distorted." "No one wants to look at ugly people."