Here is the link that we watched today in class. If you want or need to re-view it, please feel free.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zl6hNj1uOkY
Please post a comment under this post. State what you think the message of the video is and/or what it is saying about today's society. Be brief (5-8 sentences.) We will discuss as a class next week.
Looking forward to hearing what you all think!
Hi Ms.Swanek, when is this due? i think it Monday but i'm not sure, if you could get back to me soon, that would be great thanks!
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ReplyDeleteI believe that the video “Doll Face” is trying to show us that today’s society is obsessed with looking and acting like people do on television and magazines. The doll creature in the video changes its appearance many times throughout the video trying to mirror how the person on the television looks, by wearing more makeup. Also, every time the doll succeeds in looking identical the television moves further away. I think that this is trying to indicate that companies that provide makeup or other vanity product will make their models exquisiteness unattainable, encouraging consumers to buy more and more vanity products so that they can try to be as beautiful as someone in the media. Furthermore, at the end of the video the doll breaks by trying to reach the unattainable, and I think that this is showing us how many girls in today’s society essentially destroy themselves in an effort to be “perfect”. I feel the doll shattering is a metaphor for when people develop eating disorders (or other disorders) to mimic how people in the media look, which is highly dangerous and could lead to their death (like the doll breaking). To summarize, I think that this video is trying to display that in today’s society, we are possessed with the individuals we see on television to the extent of even destroying ourselves by trying to be exactly like them.
ReplyDeleteI believe that the video "Doll Face" is telling everybody how many people are tricked by the media. In the video, the doll wanted to look exactly like the person on the T.V., which looks "beautiful". The doll represents most girls who fall for the medias lies. These lies are, "If you get this product, you will look beautiful" or "Buy this and you will have friends!" All girls and boys fall for these lies because they don't have confidence in them selves. The girl on the T.V. got nicer each time it moved away from the doll. I think that is the company coming up with "nicer" products. Therefore the doll wanted more. Once the doll couldn't reach the T.V., she broke herself trying to be beautiful. I think that represents people changing how they live, eat, etc. to look like the models on T.V. Once people get to that stage, its to late to go back. Like in the video, the doll wanted to be so much like that person on T.V., that by the time the doll realized it, she broke. All in all, in think that the video is trying to tell everybody to not be tricked by the media.
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ReplyDeleteI think the message in that video was about artificial beauty. It was saying that people do all this plastic surgery and put on make up to try to look beautiful but it is unnatural and unneeded. I also thought that it was about how people these days focus on beauty and it consumes their life when in reality, nobody really cares very much about that. I thought that the metal box was showing that all the face could do was try to be pretty, and that is not really living; so do you really want to be like that?
ReplyDeleteI think that the video Doll Face was comparing the creature in the video to humans in today’s modern society. The video is saying that we have become almost like robots, all working towards the same goal: self-gain. We have ceased originality and suddenly all we desire is to look like the image on the screen. We will go to desperate measures to obtain that coveted look, and these desperate measures never end well. In our modern society, we can become so enraptured with makeup and physical appearance that it can lead to our downfall. Low self-confidence is evident, shattered hopes and dreams are inevitable, even suicide or self-deprivation can be the result in such obsession over personal aesthetics. In the video Doll Face, the creature was robotic, and therefore the video was comparing humans to robots. Also, the robotic creature had a humanoid face, and it went to great lengths to make this face look like the beautiful face it saw on the TV screen. The TV screen kept moving further and further away, showing that the presented ideal image is almost impossible to attain. We, as humans also do attempt to look like images presented by the media. When the creature fell and shattered at the end, it represented how vanity is the downfall of the human race; we are breaking, slowly but surely because of this new obsession. The video is implying that if the human race doesn’t stop straining for perfection, the results could be disastrous.
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ReplyDeleteIn my opinion, the message of the video Doll Face is that we are heavily influenced by social media. Today’s generation often strives to portray the image of characters that we see on television. The robot represents humans because of the struggle and desire to be something we are not. We mechanically act and try to mimic what we perceive as the perfect image. In our society, the perfect image is often associated with beauty and physical appearance. However, it is said that beauty is in the eye of the beholder. It is our inner beauty that counts and we should be satisfied with ourselves and our potential. In Doll Face, the obsession in trying to reach what is unattainable cause’s self-destruction.
ReplyDeleteI believe that the message of the video Doll Face is that many people are always trying to look the way celebrities look but it won't make a difference. In the video the robot kept climbing up to the TV and trying to get somewhere, but in the end she really didn't get anywhere at all. I think the robot dies in the end to represent how bad people look after they have underwent a few plastic surgeries. I think overall people should be happy for who they are, even if they are unattractive,because the person who loves you the most is always the person who can look past your skin and see whats within.....
ReplyDeleteIn the clip doll face, I think it was trying to show that people today try too hard to look like someone they see in the media. In the video, the robot kept changing her image to what she saw on the screen, and kept reaching farther and farther towards the screen. I think that’s comparing to people today, how people struggle really hard and become obsessed to try and look ‘perfect’. And when the robot broke, it was showing how people wreck themselves just to look ‘perfect’. Lots of people today become very unhealthy trying to look like someone that is on the t.v, like the robot in the video, when it really doesn’t matter how you look like. Overall, I think the video was trying to say, that you shouldn’t try too hard to look different just because of someone who is on television, because it doesn’t matter what you look like.
ReplyDeleteI think the video “Doll Face” is showing that the people of today are crazed about trying to look exactly like celebrities. The reason being, celebrities look beautiful. But the reason they look the way they do is that some celebrities have had so much plastic surgery and wear so much make up that they look completely different without make up. This is showed by the robot taking a lot of time trying to copy the look of the person on the TV. In the end the robot never really did look like the model and I think by showing the robot dying is a way of showing our wasted effort trying to be something we’re not. The media has been able to utilize our obsession to look like celebrities, by using them in commercials. By doing this it makes us think that if we use their product we’ll look just like the celebrity. So we go out waste are money and get disappointed with the product. So another thing they are saying is that we are too often tricked by commercials.
ReplyDeleteI think that the clip "Doll Face" is implying that people today are always worrying about their looks on the outside , but not their inner beauty. This is being influenced by the media. In the video our class watched a doll face machine is suddenly distracted by a beautiful face on the TV screen. This face has beautiful features like pink cheeks, gorgeous red lips and perfect eyebrows. The doll face machine mimics these features and becomes happy because she knows that she will be the same as everyone else. As the TV backs up the beautiful face appears to be different. Now she has colour on all parts of her face and big brown eyes. Wanting to be even better, the doll face instantly does the same as the face on the TV screen. The TV backs up even more and keeps on going. The machine cant resist being perfect so it follows the TV until she cant go anymore. Doll Face has a desire to be someone who she is not. Someone who is prettier on the outside but maybe not in the inside. Influences like the beautiful face on the TV screen can break us because we become so self conscious and we want to be better. Do you want to be broken?
ReplyDeleteThe video “Doll Face” symbolizes many problems with current day society. The “doll” represents humans, specifically teenagers, and their constant hunger to attain physical perfection. In present day society, humans are constantly bombarded with images that depict ideal beauty, and many constantly strive to obtain that. As the doll views these images of other women, it becomes unhappy, and starts to alter its appearance to fit the portrayed image on the screen. Each time the doll completes its make-over, it shows signs of temporary happiness until the next image appears and the doll once again attempts to change its appearance so that it can adopt the new look. This pattern repeats itself since the image keeps changing and subsequently the doll must alter its look to keep up. The television represents the media that continuously bombards society with an ever changing current of styles and images that are directed at teens who are often very vulnerable to these messages. Eventually, the doll breaks by trying to constantly move towards the T.V. so that it can see the next image that it will morph into. Like the doll, those who try to chase the latest fad or become like the popular teen idol, suffer adverse emotional and psychological affects since they can never attain perfection. Their struggle leads to destructive behaviours like bulimia, anorexia, drug abuse, and even plastic surgery. The doll crashing on the floor is a metaphor for the negative side-effects of being overly preoccupied with physical beauty. Like the doll, society as a whole will crash if people don’t recognize that being happy comes developing the inner-self and accepting who you are as opposed to always trying to change.
ReplyDeleteI think that the video “doll face” compared the monster thing to people in general and how we want to look like things we see in TV because of the lies that we here example: you will look better with this, and everybody tries to do that. In the movie the doll face kept on going to the TV to look better and eventually broke itself doing that. I think that the message is that we should stop our selves before we destroy our selves. If we dont then we will change ourselves by not only how we look but how we act and some might even get plastic surgeries. If you do this you will “brake down” like the doll face. This why the message of the video is to warn you!
ReplyDeleteThe video doll face is stating throughout the video that people in todays society are doing to themselves what they see on tv. I don't mean stuff crazy i mean stuff like putting makeup on or doing your hair like that person from much music. Both women and men do this but mostly women. They get these ideas from there favorite tv shows or commercials they see on tv or the internet. Sometimes teens or others are forced because if you don't look pretty to others you are picked on or treated worse when really it doesn't matter if god wanted us to use makeup to look better he would of made us born with it. Also stated in the video was the tv was moving away and she kept fight so she could see what she should look like but broke. I think this means that if a teen has kept getting new thing in fashion or something else and there parents don't think its necessary or it's to much money they cry or get picked on from there other popular friends just cause they don't have the new trend accessory. This is my summary of what i think Andy Huang was trying to say in this video.
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ReplyDeleteI think this video is saying that our modern society is influenced too greatly by the media. First of all, many actions made by the robot in the video remind me of those made by humans, especially teenaged girls. For example, the robot applies makeup to match that of the woman's on the t.v. screen. Each time she applies makeup, the robot looks briefly satisfied at her success of becoming a 'mirror' image of the 'celebrity' on t.v., but she quickly moves on to match the next look.
Teenaged girls act similar to the robot, and I can see this through a number of ways. For example, they apply makeup to look just like celebrities or other 'beautiful people' they see in magazines, t.v., or other media sources. The robot constantly changing her appearance
represents how girls change their looks to keep up with the latest fashio trends. However, the t.v. moving out of the robot's reach shows that these beauty trends are heading further and further from reality. Images of 'perfection' are becoming impossible to recreate because they
are usually fake, photoshopped, or done by plastic surgery. In addition to this, the brief
satisfaction of the robot relates to how teens will never be fully satisfied by the looks they
copy from celebrities. These are only imitations, covering up someone's natural beauty and
creating a whole different person, not allowing people to be themselves. In conclusion, I
believe that the media influences our modern society too greatly, and changes people to be
things that they are not.
I think the meaning behind doll face is that the media plays a big role in the way we live our lives. Everyone sees these pictures of beautiful celebrities and wants to be like them, look like them, and talk like them. So they go to extreme measures such as plastic surgery, etc. This is outlined in the because the robot is making it’s face look exactly like the women on the screen. This also explains the great measures some of us are willing to do in order to fit the standard the media puts out there. Also, towards the end, the robot is trying to get closer and closer to the screen, showing how sometimes this image can ven drive our whole lives devoted to fitting this image. This is what I think the meaning behind doll face is.
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ReplyDeleteWhat I thought about this article was that the jack in the box face wanted to be like the face on the T.V. The media is dictating to us what the video is saying. This is like some people who want to be exactly what they see on the T.V. The box face wanted all of these accessories put onto to her just to look beautiful. People are letting the T.V/internet take over a person’s life. This can happen because the images are totally fake and if they look not the greatest a few touches on a computer program and they look amazing. It is almost impossible to get those looks without using any makeup products. A little bit of makeup is ok but overdoing it as it showed in the video will make you go insane for more.
I think that the video "Doll Face" is telling us that a lot of people in our society try too hard to be people that they are not, such as the people they see in television. In the clip the robot doll starts off very dull but by watching a beautiful person on TV she try's to make herself look the same. I think that this is implying that we care way too much about our appearance. Later on in the video the doll is trying so hard to get to the TV and become beautiful that she breaks down and shatters everywhere. I believe that this is representing that people will do anything to be perfect, even to the point where they end up hurting themselves. Overall, I would say that the clip is trying to tell us that we should stay the way we are, unlike many people in modern society who try hard to be somebody else. It is not right to change yourself just because of the influence of people on TV and in other media.
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