Representation

In media we were given a task to look at pictures of men and women and told to write down what we thought about them. Eg- 1.Who they are 2. what they do 3.whats there story, then we were told who they were, what they do and there story and this showed us how different they are to how they present themselves or how we see them and overlook them.

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Image 1: My thoughts on this image were that the man was some sought of street actor who had no job and needed money. My other ideas were that he was just homeless on the streets or he had little money and cant afford "normal" clothes.

Reality: He works at Doug Bihlmaier and he designs and has input on what the shop looks like and what they sell in the shop.

The cloths he is wearing are not far from the cloths he wares normally, the shoes are worth $340 and the patches on his trousers are neatly sewn together and all the clothes look ironed and fit well showing that he is not homeless and just has a different style to others.

This image really shows how we don't know people just by looking at what they wear and are doing at the time and actually they just have a different lifestyle to you that suits them and they feel comfortable with. I think the expression - "Never judge a book by its cover" - is a good way of describing this.

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Image 2: My thoughts on Image 2 were that he was a respectable well dressed person who could be a lawyer, professor or an lecturer who is payed well because he is in smart clothes and he also looks like he is reading something in court or to someone. He also has a well shaved face and neat hair and looks like a well trusted and respectable man.

Reality: The mans name is Ted Bundy and he is in court representing himself for the crimes he committed, he used his looks and respectable looks to lure women into giving them a lift back to there homes but he actually took them away and killed them, he has killed over 30 women from ages 4-40. He decided he knew enough about serial killers that he would defend himself in court but he ended up going to prison for a while then he got the death sentence because he killed so many women and children.

This just goes to show that even if people look respectable and well dressed with a good lifestyle that you cant trust anyone and that you never know what they could do or be and they will treat you.

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Image 3: My thoughts on image 3 were that the woman in the picture is a actress or model for a cloths company and my other thought was that they might be a cross dresser. I thought this because of the way they dress. But they could just have a different style to everyone else, or they were "weird" and just mixed all there clothes together.

Reality: She is a wealth woman who worked for vogue for many years of her life and was a big inspiration in the fashion world as she had lots of input and knew famous fashion designers who she would help promote there clothes and watched there shows and had front row seats at all of them. Unfortunately a few years ago she passed away and is now know as one of the worlds most famous fashion designers and here different style of dressing is gone with here too. She also never wore the same outfit twice.

But once again this goes to show that she also has a different lifestyle and that just because she mixes lots of clothes together that she isn't "weird" she just has a different style and way of seeing thing than you or anyone else does and that she can be unique and live her life and dress the way she wants and also influence people doing so.