Minorities
in Media
The mass
media has always being consistent in how it portraits minorities, it is funny
how is being persistent in stereotypes are looked as a mirror especially for
African American, Asian and Hispanics. I believe media has a lot to do with how
we thing about many people. The truth is many minorities are made its way to
big media companies and are establishing a path for other members of their
ethic group to bombard television, movies and others to create a better
understanding in who they are. Many celebrities from minorities groups had may
it to the top, still discrimination exist specially in the acting field. Many
of the main actors we see these days on movies or television that are well recognized
for their excellent acting careers and are consistently working are usually
white or looks Caucasians. An example of that is Lana Parra who is Puerto Rican
and her looks and professionalism made her won an Alma Award on 2012. When she
received the award she mentioned that she used to hide the fact that she was
Hispanic to get some roles.
For my project I would like to present these theory
and emphasize more in the Hispanic, Asian and African minorities. My focus is
to present a project which may influence the masses to have a different
perspective about minorities. Made them realized that not everything they see
about minorities is truth and even if it is true not all are the same and
explain the reason behind why media is stereotyping minorities. I would like to
make a video that I will record myself in which some people will talk about how
media made them feel. Then, I will show some footage in which media have
stereotype minorities. I would like to interview people and make them understand why is this
project so important and the different that other media sources are fighting
against the stereotypes.
Moreover, I will add some voiceover, explain all the damaged that
media stereotype has caused to minorities while I will show footage referent to
this idea. I want to show people that this topic is very important because it
is affecting people in the workplace, interacting with others and it created a
low self esteem, self consciousness about how they look. This project is so important to me because I
considered myself part of a minority and I would like to touch this topic
deeper in my video because it concerns me and other minorities. My intention is
not to make this video only for minorities, but to a larger audience specially
teenagers and young adults.
This is good. But like professor said in class, I would focus on one minority and maybe even one type of movie. Or even one gender. Get as specific as you can and then move forward. I am sure you could find something, this is a topic full of great ideas.
ReplyDeleteGood Luck!