The Air Brushing Debate Year 8
The Air Brushing Debate.
In your ICT Lessons this year, you been learning about photographic manipulation using software such as Serif PhotoPlus or Adobe PhotoShop. During these lessons you have seen how easy it is to make changes to photographic images. It’s even possible to completely remove people from a photo or maybe cut someone or something out from one picture & place them in another. You have made composite images by combining photos into layers to make a completely new scene.
So surely this is a good thing isn’t it?
….. Or is it?
What do you know about the Airbrushing Debate?
Can you believe everything that you see on TV and in the media?
What are the wider effects of airbrushing a celebrity’s features when they appear in a magazine or on a film poster?
This extended writing project is for you to explore both sides of the argument and then decide where you stand and make a conclusion based on the evidence you uncover.
For this piece of work, you need to aim for a target of 750 words.
Your work needs to be handed in on Fronter by:
The Beauty Myth
Debate that airbrushing images in the media is always wrong.
Arguments for:
• It gives an unrealistic impression of how things look and that can disappoint people especially if it’s a product they go and buy.
• Airbrushing photos of celebrities is dangerous as people who want to look like them will be trying to achieve the impossible.
• Changing how things really are is the same as lying and that is wrong.
The Beauty Myth
Debate that airbrushing images in the media is always wrong.
Arguments against:
• Airbrushing is sometimes used to improve bad photographs so viewers can see the subject more clearly.
• People are sometimes unhappy with how they look in a picture. Airbrushing can be used to make them feel better.
• Changing images is an art form. It should be appreciated.
Useful Web links to help you form an opinion.
Read these weblinks and see what you think. Make notes in the tables
In your ICT Lessons this year, you been learning about photographic manipulation using software such as Serif PhotoPlus or Adobe PhotoShop. During these lessons you have seen how easy it is to make changes to photographic images. It’s even possible to completely remove people from a photo or maybe cut someone or something out from one picture & place them in another. You have made composite images by combining photos into layers to make a completely new scene.
So surely this is a good thing isn’t it?
….. Or is it?
What do you know about the Airbrushing Debate?
Can you believe everything that you see on TV and in the media?
What are the wider effects of airbrushing a celebrity’s features when they appear in a magazine or on a film poster?
This extended writing project is for you to explore both sides of the argument and then decide where you stand and make a conclusion based on the evidence you uncover.
For this piece of work, you need to aim for a target of 750 words.
Your work needs to be handed in on Fronter by:
The Beauty Myth
Debate that airbrushing images in the media is always wrong.
Arguments for:
• It gives an unrealistic impression of how things look and that can disappoint people especially if it’s a product they go and buy.
• Airbrushing photos of celebrities is dangerous as people who want to look like them will be trying to achieve the impossible.
• Changing how things really are is the same as lying and that is wrong.
The Beauty Myth
Debate that airbrushing images in the media is always wrong.
Arguments against:
• Airbrushing is sometimes used to improve bad photographs so viewers can see the subject more clearly.
• People are sometimes unhappy with how they look in a picture. Airbrushing can be used to make them feel better.
• Changing images is an art form. It should be appreciated.
Useful Web links to help you form an opinion.
Read these weblinks and see what you think. Make notes in the tables
Bibliography: should be a list of the sources of information you have used to complete your work. Add your sources to a table at the end of your work.