Exam - MAIN PIECE

Although I felt my plan established what I wanted from my final piece, there were many changes I made throughout my exam.For example I didn't just focus on the influence of 'The Sun' when considering the impact of today's media on gender roles - I also looked into magazines such as FHM and Good Housekeeping to show the varied portrayals of women in the media. Furthermore I felt that my images had to be linked to create an overall piece, rather than 3 individual ones as all areas are reliable for the how women are portrayed in society. However I will evaluate my completed piece in my next post and now, just focus primarily on the individual images.

On the left is an image of my Mum and I have included collage from a 'Good Housekeeping' magazine. Upon reading this magazine you can see how heavily targeted it is at women. Although 'Good Housekeeping' never objectifies females, it still shows how women are still regarded as in charge of the house-work and responsible for the 'home'.

The middle image is a picture of a man and I have included collage from a 'FHM' magazine. I chose this as the images chosen and comments made are targeted, almost solely, towards males. Whilst searching for images I saw comments on how much 'easier' girls were on holiday and other derogatory comments yet it is an increasingly popular magazine with a wide readership.Therefore this piece shows how the media portrays women specifically to men.

The third image is picture of myself with collage of 'The Sun' newspaper. I decided to use 'The Sun' for my image as personally, I find it the worse. 'Good Housekeeping', whilst showing females in a more traditional way, never objectifies them and although I don't like FHM, female magazines also objectify men in some areas such as heat's 'torso of the week'. However 'The Sun' is a newspaper and nudity shouldn't need to be next to a tragic news story or a momentous event.Although I used Page 3 in my collage I also used other articles out of the paper. The background is also a repeated cutting of Page 3 laid out to form a 'brick wall' template to show how, sometimes, the overexposure to nudity can lead to the foundations of a girls insecurities.