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-Started to research Deforestation - Changed our minds to do Body Image after seeing Mrs cairns Presentation on The Power of Media and Body Image. -Came up with the question of "Is our need of physical beauty taking over our love for inner beauty?" Attended meetings -Rebecca- Grand Theft Auto, Imovie presentation - Kaylee- Mean meaning mean, Imovie presentation - Rachael - Changing rooms, Media - Lauren- Researching, Media

17/11/2009 - -Researched Statistics -Found song -Made our story board -Made our mind map

18/11/2009 Group - Researched and made our imovie -Found Images -Found a youtube clip -Made presentation -Showed Mrs Luke our presentation at the end of the day

19/11/2009 Meeting with Mrs Luke Went over presentation and made changes where needed Group - Editing imovie, including inner beauty

20/11/2009 Kaylee-edited our final copy of the video Lauren-Uploaded it onto youtube Rebecca-Copyright issue Rachael-Wrote the letter to the editior

Letter To The Editor.

Throughout the week we have learnt a number of new skills. Being apart of such a learning experience each one of us has learnt how to work together and produce a video that can be shown and used all around the world. In creating such a video we were able to educate both ourselves and others on the extremes people go to in order to appear “beautiful”.

During the week we had to make a number of changes and decisions in order to compose a video that would change peoples thoughts. At the beginning of the week, as a group, we decided to focus our presentation on the cutting down of trees, or deforestation. However, after attending Mrs Cairns presentation on the Media, we realised that body image and everyones perception on beauty would be a better choice as more people our age are affected by body image in comparison to deforestation.

Once we had chosen to focus our presentation on body image we had to come up with a question. After discussing the issue we became aware of how we all had a different perception on what beauty actually was, yet they were all some how similar. We discussed whether we thought that inner beauty was more important or if the physical aspects of it was. With this in mind we came up with our question of “Is our need of physical beauty taking over our love for inner beauty?”

As a group we researched statistics and facts on the effects on illnesses such as anorexia and bulimia. We located images to match these facts and incorporated them into our presentation. We also found a youtube clip which reflected our issue.

After various meeting with Mrs Luke, our leader teacher, we changed and manipulated various techniques used and added more information before finally uploading our video onto **youtube**. Whilst participating in this experience we have all learnt various new skills and will continue to use them throughout our lives.