Senior Project Inquiry Question - draft 1

Topic:
How does media (ads, commercials) influence women's status on the society?

Reason why I choose this topic:
- Last year (11th grade) for English class, I choose to investigate women in media. Therefore I am very interested in topics concerns with women's rights and raising women's status in the society. I think this senior project allows me to start to actually go out and do something instead of just writing or discussing about this issue. Also, I want to incoorporate graphic design skills that I will learn in my internship experience with making posters to raise awareness of women's status.

I want to examine things such as:
- What is the current status of women in media?
- How women being portrayed as objects in media?
- What are people's thoughts about idealized beauty?
- Explore stereotypes or limitations being put on women in different culture (or at least in some Asian countries)

Methods I can go out and gather information:
- survey: How women/girls feel about themselves?
- survey: How men view women in media?
- interviews: models, fashion industries, advertising companies
- get in contact with DOVE - Campaign For Real Beauty: http://www.campaignforrealbeauty.com/

My "actual production" will be creating ads to:
- raise women/girls self-confidence
- portray women in healthy, non-sexual, positive angle


These are just my very first outline of what I want to do. Feel free to give any suggestions! :)