Ab Buster Brittany Baumgarten

  

 

 

 

    The advertisement that I decided to work with was a photograph of a girl who is battling the horrible disease of anorexia nervosa. The photograph was on a website that talked about the television show America’s Next Top Model. This girl wanted to be on America’s Next Top Model and this is what happened when she tried to fit their image of what girls should look like to be apart of their show. The message I believe the photograph is giving is that this girl is a model who has an eating disorder and needs help. She is extremely skinny and it is obvious to someone who view’s the photograph that she is terribly sick with the disease of anorexia. I feel that the target audience that this photograph is geared at is models and females especially ages 15 to 30 years old. Models and young females have the desire to be extremely skinny and to fit the “perfect” body image that today’s media advertises. Most advertisers often emphasize the importance of physical appearance as a way to sell their products and have people watch their television shows such as America’s Next Top Model. The media puts pressure on females to have the perfect body and focus on their body image. 

 

     I chose to change this photograph into an advertisement to help prevent eating disorders. I wanted show girls how terrifying eating disorders are and how they effect your life and body. Most advertisements influence girls to become self-conscious about their bodies and obsess over their physical appearance. I wanted to show what the media and society does to females by influencing them to have a perfect body. It causes many girls to form eating disorders.  Instead of having an advisement of a girl who is skinny and flawless, I wanted to show the effects these advisements really have and how eating disorders can ruin your life. On the top of the advisement it says “Weight isn’t the only thing your going to lose”, because its true when you develop a eating disorder you lose everything, family, friends, joy, motivation, personality, health and sometimes even your life. I put a statistic on the bottom to show how high the death rate is from anorexia in females. I targeted this ad towards females ages 15-24 to show them what an eating disorder can do to your life.

Ab Buster Brittany Baumgarten

   

The Body- Brittany Baumgarten

I am in constant motion in my life that is dependent on the activities that I choose to do and the schedule that I create for myself. On a typical day I wear many shoes that all correspond with the events and tasks that I have to complete.

At one point in time shoes were not a necessity but I could never imagine my life without shoes. Shoes are what set me in the mode to physically move and mentally prepare myself for the things I need to do. Shoes are my vehicles of motion and set the overall tone for the bigger picture of what has to get done. For example, when I put my gym shoes on I am ready and feel obligated to go workout. In my sandals I only want to sit around and be lazy and in my high heels I know it’s time for me to be tuned-in and social with my surroundings.

The motion of animals and people it’s correspondence to film influenced Eadward Muybridge’s work. Through this series of photographs, I used film to capture the part of my body that causes my most significant motion; walking. Walking is the most direct and natural motion that can get me from point A to point B. If all other forms of transportation fail I can always use my feet to bring beneficial motion to my life. Although Muybridge tried to show the actual pace of objects in his series of motion photos, that was not my main focus. Instead I try to show how wearing different shoes can influence the motion within my life.

Old Tucson Studios

 

I decided to do my documentary on Old Tucson Studios, which is west of Tucson, Arizona and close to the west part of Saguaro National Park. I was able to capture pictures of the atmosphere and the mood that the area gave to the person viewing the area or the person viewing my pictures. The pictures showed a western scene that is seen in movies but I got to see it in real life and capture pictures of the area. Old Tucson Studios is a movie studio and also a theme park. It was built in 1939 for the movie Arizona, so that they could film the movie in a western atmosphere. Old Tucson Studios has been used for many other movie and western television shows. They have tours there that inform people about the movies filmed there and also have live cast entertainment featuring stunt shows and shootouts. People can get a vibe how movies and television shows are produced. I enjoyed documenting Old Tucson Studios and seeing how movies are produced and taking pictures of the area.