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Documentary: Miss Representation


The documentary is done by American filmaker Jennifer Siebel Newsom to show how the media missrepresents women, how it's mainly targeted towards men and how this affects young girls.
Although the statistics used are mostly American, big part of the facts apply to most countries.
 I chose this documentary in particular because we're doing our own documentary about women in sports and I found this to be relevant to the subject. The representation in the media helps to form the society's mainset and the studies show that there's definitely coralation between what we see on TV and what we do/ how we treat others in real life. Thus due to the lack of women in sports representation in the media we have the statistics that show that by age 14, girls are dropping out of sports at two times the rate of boys. I personally love the quote used to describe the documentary "You can't be what you can't see" so eventhough there's lots of talented and strong women out there, the media choses to focus on their looks and not their intelligence or talent which is one of the reasons why girls drop out of sports (there's not that much represantation and sports are seen as men's field). Personally, I really liked this documentary because of severeal reasons, one - it's relevant to me as a young woman who wants to one day work in television industry and be treated as equal to men on the same job, two - it talks about the issue that everybody knows about and grown to see it as a norm (the society sees almost naked women in  films as an ok thing), three - it is relevant to my research for our film.
The documentary has a bit of commentary, but it's used to not only link one subject to another it also adds to the story, because the film's creator talks about her expirence growing up and how she wants a better future for her daughter. The facts, statistics and quotes were just the text on the screen, there was none narrating them. The film mostly used only talking heads in a studio and archive videos and pictures. Due to how many people were talking there always would be a caption indicating who the person is.
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