Joanne Perry
AS Media Studies
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I took this picture after researching various anorexia websites
and information in order to discover what would be a most effective
and verisimilitude approach upon the illness. Eating Disorders are
stereotypically presented within girls and skinny people. Therefore
in order to represent this ideology in order to appeal to the
audience I felt it is best to use girls within my photos who are
perceived as skinny. The tape measure presents the girl to be
measuring her waist and therefore represents the continuous
struggle to be skinnier. I have also used a black and white effect
on this image in order to create a more effective approach in order
to allow the audience to feel sympathetic for the girl in the
photo. Her loose grip on the tape measure also represents her loss
of control in order to represent the impact in which the illness
can have on a person.
This photo is similar to the previous image however, instead of
using a tape measure, the girls hand is positioned in a grabbing
motion upon her stomach. This shows to the audience that the girl
still sees herself as fat due to her grabbing her stomach in a
hatred manor. The black and white effect again represents an
effective, emotional impact for the audience to feel when looking
at the image. The image is a connotation of a girl suffering in
silence and fighting a constant battle against herself, distressed
due to her weight.
This image has been created in a polysemic concept in order for
it to speak to people, mainly niche audiences who are aware of how
the girl in the image is feeling. The image shows a sign of how the
girl feels everyday and her struggle with her eating disorder. The
image represents a verisimilitude approach to how silent sufferers
feel in their own minds. The words NOT GOOD ENOUGH anchor the
audience in due to the powerful context of the illness. The black
and white effect outlines the words clearly and effectively,
creating more emotion within the image for the audience to feel
when they view it. The clear wide shot of the girls stomach,
represents how skinny the girl is and how she still does not feel
that it is good enough. It represents eating disorders to be and
endless loop of being not good enough unless recovery is
invoked.
This image I have taken uses an over the shoulder shot in order
to allow the audience to have a verisimilitude perspective on how
the girl in the image feels. The expression the girl invokes
represents her sadness and desperation to lose weight. Her hands,
clutching her stomach, represent the determination and also the
disgust in which she feels with herself and her body. This image is
very powerful due to it allowing the audience to see her expression
and emphasises sympathy for the girl due to her uncontrollable
illness. The black and white effect represents her dark thoughts
and emotions running through her mind as she stares appalled at her
own body.
I took this image in order to represent various scenarios in
which occurs throughout an eating disorder. It represents a
different type of eating disorder which is regularly, Bulimia
Nervosa, in order to represent that my charity campaign supports
all types of eating disorders and not just Anorexia Nervosa. This
allows more of a mass audience onto the charity campaign website.
This also gives off a stereotypical girl with an eating disorder,
trying various ways in order to make herself lose weight. The black
and white effect is empowering due to the ideological denotation of
a girl in need of help, creating sympathy for the audience and
allows a more emotional effect to take over.
I chose to take an image of a girl with her hand covering her
mouth in order to represent her feelings of insecurity and
helplessness. The image represents her cry for help although she
cant. This leaves the audience curious as to why she cant. This
could be for a large variety of reasons e.g. she is too afraid, she
is embarrassed etc. Her eyes create an emotional impact on the
audience as they show purity and innocence and therefore makes it
feel as though she is being completely controlled by something out
of her power (her eating disorder). The connotation of Stories on
her hands allowed me to make it an affective way in order to create
a new page. Therefore this image will be featured on the Stories
page and will be a recognisable way in which the audience can
establish what they are looking at. It also represents that the
girl is not ready to tell her story yet as her eating disorder
still has control of her. The black and white effect again suggests
her innocence and allows an emotional impact to take control of the
audience in order to make them feel sympathetic towards her.
This image represents the final stages of an eating disorder and
the most fatal. It represents how serious the illness can be in a
verisimilitude approach through the ideology that the girl has been
admitted to hospital due to the band on her arm. The way the hand
is positioned represents that she has lost all of her own control.
The shadow positioned across her hand represents her going deeper
and deeper into the shadow which can be interpreted as the dark
side, death etc. The black and white effect represents a more
serious tone for the image and portrays the shadow to be darker and
more deadly. It represents lost hope at the girls final stages and
therefore perceives how serious the illness can be.
A close-up image of weighing scales simply represent another
stereotypical way in which people with eating disorders are
perceived to continuously use and therefore represents them in a
different scenario. The black and white effect captures the numbers
on the scales and allows them to stand out more clearly and more
effective in order to allow the audience to see how much these
simple numbers can effect a persons life.