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The media without a doubt alters our perception of the world. And yet how often do we let it or do we even have the option not to? What we process from the media on a day to day basis is not neccessarily informational, and not exactly beneficial, but it only has one purpose-to sell. The media does not descriminate against color, gender, or even age; if you can buy it, they will try and sell it. Feeding into the media's tricks and believing in what exactly is portrayed is only half of the problem; and we, the other half. But is there a way to stop our gulable tendencies toward the media? Of coarse! Being media literate does not mean you have to analyis everything you see, but is moreso about being aware of things that are real and things that are facticious. Media has a job, and appearantly they are doing there part, now lets do ours.

This project in the making was a bit more difficult then i initially thought it would be. But its all worth the work, i look at advertisements, television, and many of the media's aspests differently now; i find myself picking apart the glamor and the glits in advertisements, that the media tries to sell. I'm not going to lie, at times this project became a bit frustrating, sometimes it seemed like we made progress and the next day we were 10 steps back. As a team our group came to agreements on what would work in our section and what wouldnt. Having the first section of the documentary, made it a little difficult to start because we didnt know where to begin; but as soon as we got it started it took off. I'm just anxious to get it over and complete, so we can see what all our hard work has done for us.

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