Photoshop homework 2

THE CROP TOOL

1. select the crop tool on the top tool bar of you're screen.

crop tool icon

2. you will see squares on the image you can reduce to the amount of squares you want the image.for example if the image was from boxes 1-7 you can make it 2-5.

the squares I am relating to

3. when you have reduced the image to the size you want it to be you then click enter and the image will become cropped.

Before and after cropping 

                                 

In many rap videos women have no identity except as sexual playthings and "eye candy"

In many rap videos women have no identity except as sexual playthings and "eye candy"

I agree with the fact that In many rap videos women have no identity except as sexual playthings and "eye candy" because in basically every single music video (especially in the hip hop genre) there are half naked women dancing and wearing ridiculous outfits showing their boobs and bum. They're are always wrapped around the finger of the artist and the artist can make them do whatever they want them to do. The men are basically using the women as toys there is never any talking between the men and women which shows that they are just used. A example is Robin Thickes Blurred Lines.

 
Since 'The Thong Song' the music industry have found it acceptable to take advantage of women in their videos and the bar is ever being raised higher as to what limits they can go to exploiting these women no one knows who is responsible to stop the explicit content in these videos getting worse and worse.

Most of the successful hip hop videos are the ones that contain the half naked women. This is because even if the artists music is bad people watch the music videos just for the women in it as it gives pleasure to them.  This shows the way that music but in particular hip hop is going it is more based on the women and not on the music.

So much money is being made from this industry just because of men using women as 'playthings or eyecandy' the men use these videos for their pleasure because they like looking at the women. 

The women have absolutely no identity, this is not what the men care about they are more interested in using them to look at and have sex with at the click of their finger which is not how it really is so is putting a bad influence on young people. 

  

homework due 8th october

Stereotypes presentation from charliejcrosbie

In my presentation i think that we represented the stereotypes well and gave detail about the video we showed this through answering questions and showing pictures.  to make the presentation better we could have answered the questions in more depth and used more images.

www: we covered all the questions well
          used good images 
          understood the link between the video and sterotypes

EBI: used more images
       answered the questions in more depth
       
           

Men Stereotype hip hop homework

I do agree with the fact that rap/hip hop videos only show a small percentage of manhood, these videos try to represent men to be rich with lots of women and quite strong, and anyone who does not fit up to these requirements they are seen as a wimp or are not man enough to have what other men have.

These videos only relate to a small amount of men and most men don't have or are anything like the men in the videos but because there are so many of these videos they feel that it is what they should be doing and if they dont they are wimps or cowards, they want to be like the people in these videos .

They do represent a real man as someone with lots of money, woman and expensive jewelry but in some circumstances this is true,some women do want men for their money. but this is not ture for 'ordinary' people.

the men in these videos are very select and often are basically the same no matter who it actually is in the video  because this is what people are interested in it if was a ordinary person everyone would relate to it and it would be extremely boring.