Renata

I found Yellow Week very helpful as I'm not good in writing, so i could learn more about creative journalism. This was great experience with lots of valued advices how to interested your reader. Working within group and exchanging opinion had given us excellent visual and esthetics result. We chosen very difficult subject to our article. We as a team tried understand topic as much as we could, did our research and generally be somehow involved with it. To me was pleasure to working with younger and rising fashion designers and been involved with their point of view.  I think both professions graphic and fashion designers are closely linking to each other. As we both as designers trying pleased visually our audience, so it's been important experience to listen different opinion from fashion side. All project along with final team work was very successfully and wont regret that i choose journalism as my Yellow Week subject and want say thank you to Fashion Designers for support and great work!

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Evaluation of the project.

The reason we chose Body Image as our subject is because we wanted, as a group to make people aware of how society are too easily influenced by the media and this is a matter we all agreed on. Questioning whether we as a society have become far too concerned for our images and less about what we actually do with our lives. 
As a group we feel this would be suitable for in a feed magazine because feed aims to a variety of audiences but nearly everyday it is being picked up and read by us, the people who are influenced everyday by the media and celebrity culture. 
What better way to make the matter publicised than too have it in feed magazine and give the younger audience something to think about, to stop people from thinking they have to have surgery on every bit of their body that they hate and give a thought to those minds questioning the matter.
The reason for working as a group was because we felt we could work as a team to understand the minds of these people more, sometimes working by yourself you find you ending up trailing off. It was nice to have constant reminders on what points we should make, making the article more precise. Also, working as a group meant that we could use our graphic student to produce a high quality layout, as them being more experienced in the subject.

Weight matters?

 

Here an article I found on the different weights of celebrities and what they think of it,
I think articles like these have such an affect on real people as these women are perceived as beautiful and make it look easy, for example when Megan Fox, who is 5'6 and weights 8 stone is talking about her weight she says 'I'm not really one for dieting or exercising because I'm lazy and I have a sweet tooth', she makes it sound so easy and comments like this could easily make any woman feel guilty about her own eating habits and the fact that she don't all have a natural tiny frame as apposed to the comments made by Eva Longoria as she says that to keep the figure she has she works out 4 days a week with a personal trainer and eats healthy set meals daily, which is what I think we need more of in magazine to show naive young girls that to be thin but healthy you need a mixture of healthy eating and safe sensible work outs.

Extreme Anorexia

Final

We often find ourselves feeling envious of someone else’s body, however do some take this to the extreme? 

Has spending millions of pounds on the Kate Moss figure become far too accepted in today’s society? The media is constantly pushing us to extreme lengths and many are craving the ‘perfect’ body that we are always being shown through misleading advertisements.

Magazines publish articles with a front cover full of ‘Best and Worst beach bodies’ comparing one celebrity to another, making us feel guilty about what we put in our mouths and putting immense pressure on us. Is this what distorts our perspective of our bodies? We find suddenly we can’t control this feeling and we are counting every calorie we touch.

We’re depressed, finding every day a struggle to get through and all we can remember is that we do not look good in this outfit. We are crying out for someone to help us and no matter what people say we have lost all ability to feel anything but low self esteem. The hatred for our bodies and face has gone too far, the hunger for perfection is no longer in our control.

We've all been warned about the dangers of surgery and reports have claimed that if done with a lack of knowledge it can be dangerous.

A recent story emerged about a young girl from London who wanted to be a singer and felt the only way she would be able to make it is if she had a bigger bottom. Within hours of searching online she had arranged to meet a so-called surgeon in a hotel room in America, hours after the procedure took place she complained of stomach and chest pains. She died later died in hospital  

We’ve become a society full of hatred for our bodies and envy for others. Our images of our own body are becoming more and more distorted, and those with a size 0 frame are seeing themselves as being ten sizes bigger in mirror. We read the ugly stories of young teens who have spent months trying to be as thin as possible but is the media to blame for all of this? Are we so obsessed by celebrity culture that a magazine cover can define how we view ourselves?  

However, recently celebrities such as Kelly Brooke have tried to target the situation by releasing un-airbrushed images of themselves to show that no one has the perfect body 

We've all focused on our looks at some point, but have we ever done anything this extreme? Does changing ourselves really make us feel and look any better? Surely, if the option of surgery wasn't available, we wouldn't even think of doing it. Would we think of starving ourselves thin if it wasn't publicised so much? Is the media forcing us to notice the things we hate about our bodies and are we honestly becoming a society that has become obsessed about our image? Maybe for one day, we could not look in the mirror and forget what others are telling us and realise, who we really are not what this obsession is forcing us to be.

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Subject remind me Silverchair - Ana's Song
[...] And you're my obsession
I love you to the bones
And Ana wrecks your life
Like an anorexia life [...]