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 [...]

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Not yet finished draft.

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 for 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 body? We find suddenly we can’t control this feeling and we are counting every calorie we touch.

We’re depressed, finding everyday 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 emotion 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 recent reports said 'if it gets into the wrong hands it can be dangerous' after a story emerged of 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 later died in hospital  

‘If it gets in the wrong hands it can be dangerous.’ Claimed by many reports due to the rise in plastic surgery yet we've happily started to think it’s ok to change the way we look. Buy our new nose or change those hips that you have tried everything to shift the weight off but it just won’t go. So now we can just pay money to change your body. But is it really that simple? no. We are all living in a world of false advertisement, we’ve all been warned surgery could go wrong but what if it does? What if suddenly you was left with a body worse than it was before? You have to live everyday hating your body more than you ever did and you can do nothing about it, did you really want to change yourself that much? 

We’ve become a world full of hatred for our bodies and envy for others. Our images of our own body is becoming more and more distorted, size 0 are seeing ten sizes bigger in mirror. Is the media to blame for this? 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 gone to the extremes of some? Does changing our selves 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 to our attention? Is the media forcing us to notice the things we hate about our bodies, are we honestly becoming a world 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 into.

Eating Disorder Statistics

eating disorder statistics & causes  - this website contains basic information on eating disorders, the obvious causes and very vague statistics. 

eating disorders, like anorexia nervosa, bulimia nervosa and binge eating, are becoming increasingly prevalent throughout western countries. According to US estimates from The National Institute of Mental Health, between 5 per cent and 10 per cent of girls and women (i.e. 5-10 million people) and 1 million boys and men suffer from eating disorders, including anorexia, bulimia, binge eating disorder, or other associated dietary conditions. Estimates suggest that as many as 15 percent of young women adopt unhealthy attitudes and behaviors about food 

• An estimated 10 per cent of female college students suffer from a clinical or sub-clinical (borderline) eating disorder, of which over half suffer from bulimia nervosa.
• An estimated 1 in 100 American women binges and purges to lose weight.
• Approximately 5 per cent of women and 1 percent of men have anorexia nervosa, bulimia nervosa, or binge eating disorder.
• 15 per cent of young women have significantly disordered eating attitudes and behavior.
• It is estimated that 200,000 to 300,000 Canadian women aged 13 to 40 have anorexia nervosa and twice as many have bulimia.
• Studies suggest that 5 to 10 percent of people with anorexia or bulimia are males.
• An estimated 1 in 3 of all dieters develop compulsive dieting attitudes and behaviors.
  Of these, one quarter will develop full or partial eating disorders.
• In the UK, nearly 2 in every 100 secondary school girls suffer from anorexia nervosa,
  bulimia nervosa or binge eating disorder.
• Due to the incidence of co-occurring medical conditions, it is almost impossible to specify the morbidity rates for eating disorders like anorexia, bulimia or binge eating. However, general estimates suggest that as many as 10-15 per cent of eating disorders are fatal for those affected.
• Each day Americans spend an average of $109 million on dieting and diet related products.

Increased social pressure to be thin
According to studies into diet, weight loss and body shape, many individuals feel dissatisfied with their body shape, and develop sub-clinical / borderline eating disorder attitudes and behaviors. For example, 80 per cent of American women claim to be dissatisfied with their appearance and shape, and 1 in 2 American women are on a weight loss diet. The prevailing standards of body weight and shape, as revealed in the use of abnormally thin models in the media, continue to emphasize the idea that "thin is beautiful" and (one suspects) only make things worse for adolescents and adults with borderline anorexia, bulimia or binge eating disorders.

-http://www.annecollins.caom

Pro-Ana...

These websites show girls how 'easy' it is to lose weight, I've just read an interview with a girl name Stephanie, for years she was anorexic and use to visit these pro-ana websites with tips on how to stay skinny without passing out and still being able to fool your loved ones. She called it 'thinspiration' and had hundreds of followers, even though she has now recovered, she still visits these sites to let everyone know that she's 'pro recovery' and urging new members to exit the site, delete their history and speak to family members about it before it's too late. Since doing this Stephanie's 'followers' have decreased majorly. She claims her life is back on track now but she still counts every calorie she eats, she can't eat cereal with anything bigger than a tea spoon and she gets regular migraines and stomach cramps.

She also mentioned that no one explained the side effects of her weight lose, no one on the sites would comment her pictures mentioning that her hair was falling out or her body was covered in fine, downy hair and in the long run you could end up with osteoporosis.

She says of her ordeal 'being skinny doesn't make you happy, it makes you depressed and drained, I didn't have the energy to leave the house, it made my life miserable. As far as I'm concerned theres nothing good about being so skinny'

this image shows Stephanie's dramatic weight loss

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Body image obsession: Excessive concern about one's appearance. Some concern about one's appearance is normal. But an obsession with one's appearance is not. Body image obsession is also called body dysmorphic disorder.
The condition carries a high risk of suicide. Drug treatment can be lifesaving.

http://www.caaws.ca/girlsatplay/stuff/health/obsession.htm

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obsession [əbˈsɛʃən]

n

1. (Psychiatry) Psychiatry a persistent idea or impulse that continually forces its way into consciousness, often associated with anxiety and mental illness

2. a persistent preoccupation, idea, or feeling

3. the act of obsessing or the state of being obsessed

obsessional  adj

obsessionally  adv

Research - draft - article ideas

Monday 7th of March:

- For Wednesday 9th,

We want to collate our information together, we have agreed that we will gather:

Drafts of articles.

Research on chosen subject.

Mindmaps.

Discussing target audiences.

Layout ideas, written down and discussed.

Visual ideas, same as above.