Miss Representation

I decided to do my senior project based on the misrepresentation and inequality of women in the entertainment and business industries (basically society in general). I have grown towards the concept of feminism and gender equality a great amount this year and have become very passionate about the importance of learning to raise your voice and being unapologetic about my beliefs. It is unfortunate because when you hear the term, "feminism" automatically, some men AND women run off in disbelief and disgust as to how someone could possibly believe in such a "man hating" concept. It is also very humorous because those who choose to associate any type of hate towards another gender with being a "feminist" simply lacks education. The concept of feminism is literally believing in gender equality between both a man and a woman.

As for my project, I noticed that the very same day our class was to preview the documentary, "Miss Representation," it had some clips that I used on my very own project. Apparently, this appalled some students in my class since the alarming amount of clips I had used were also used in the very same documentary that we were watching in class. To shed some light into this very exaggerated shock, I would like to make it clear that a great amount of my project was actually created by the months I spent gathering an extensive amount of video clips, interviews, and vevo music videos that were all collected and edited into my movie. I did not use the "Miss Representation" documentary for any large portion of my documentary. I just spent a lot of time in front of a computer until it literally felt like my eyes were going to bleed, collecting and gathering the video clips that were seen in my project :) I will admit, I was extremely inspired by the "Miss Representation" documentary when I first saw it a few months back in AP Psych earlier this year and, it was then, when I decided to take on the same topic and base my senior project off of that. Besides that, I have been happy to learn about the many topics, each and every student, has shown passion towards. What we chose to shed light on says a lot about what interests us and captivates our minds towards learning about.