(Y)our Body Documentary

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We decided to create a documentary about body positivity. Our bias is that body positivity is something that should be promoted and encouraged, as it makes others more loving and accepting of who they are.
We conveyed bias through language, image and sound. Interviews of teenagers with positive and negative body image, conveys that teenagers think negatively about their bodies-- giving reason to encourage body positivity. Interviews with students who are body positive, expresses that people should be body positive too, as the content, non-serious and non-sad tone of the interviews with those students conveys that by being body positive, helps people to be more content. The interview Bu Regina, tell us that GJS uses POSSE as a way to prevent body shaming this conveys our bias, as POSSE prevents body shaming.
Teenagers with varying body types are shown in our documentary-- as body positivity promotes diverse body types. This conveys our bias, as body positivity allows people with varying body types feel more accepting of themselves. The documentary shows statistics of students with negative body image, helping the audience to find reasons to promote body positivity. The documentary includes news headlines related to the promotion of body positivity, accentuating our bias, as it influences the audience to support body positivity.
Bright and happy music reflects the ‘mood’ or ‘atmosphere’ of our bias, and is used when body positivity is mentioned. Since the tone of the music reflects the ‘tone’ of the bias, this emphasizes our bias.
Our target audience are teenagers, and we want them to understand that body positivity helps everyone to feel accepting of themselves and helps them to love who they are.
Through conveying our bias, our audience feels this way as we want to convey that being body positive e is good and included reasons to make the audience think so. By including student and school counsellor interviews, that talks with a tone of dialogue that reflects and emphasizes our bias, who are body positive and conveys that body positivity is good (2:19-3:44)(3:55-3:49), using bright, happy music when body positivity is mentioned (0:44-5:18) and including facts relating to the promotion of body positivity (4:39-4:56) , helps teenagers understand that body positivity allows themselves to be accepting of their body.
In class, we realized our old bias was not clearly conveyed as certain student interviews contradicts our bias. So, our new bias is body positivity is good. To emphasize this, we conducted a survey to find the percentage of teenagers that negatively thinks of their body and whether they know about body positivity.
Our documentary clearly conveys our bias, because we conveyed it in effective ways. By including interviews that gives the audience reason to encourage body positivity, using tone of dialogue and music that emphasizes our bias, statistics that shows high percentage of teenagers having negative body image, statistics whether teenagers know about body positivity, and news headlines related to the encouragement of body positivity, are all related to the encouragement of body positivity.

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