Dove Ad, How to make a model

I saw this posted over on another forum. Thought it was pretty interesting so I thought I would throw it up here. In about 30 seconds Dove shows how those billboard models are actually done. The photoshop part is where most of the dramatic changes are made.

http://www.boardsmag.com/screeningroom/com...mmercials/3421/

my girlfriend sent this too me.

I think its horrible.

Thanks for posting that Roberto-I have come to the conclusion that not a whole lot in this world is real anymore.

Slainte

I agree Rindy, and thanks for the link Roberto, I believe I am gonna let my dd see this cause she is always saying something about wanting to look like the girls in the magazine adds. Maybe this will show her how"fake" it is.

Thank you, Roberto, very much!

Our girls need to see this, too. It really brings home the amount of distortion (and fraud) that's thrown at all of us from all directions, and will hopefully help them to filter that input wisely, trusting themselves more than my own generation ever did.


Dreamer1

and here i thought it was about dove dark chocolates.... you know... how they put the lil fortunes in the the foil wrapper...

why are we never happy with what God gave us? it was good enough for Him...

makes me sad and scared for my little daughter. she is absolutely beautiful, but i am sure she will find some part of herself to hate in the next few years, just because society tells her that her cheeks are too round, or her smile is too wide, or her nose turns up on the end, or some other nonsense.

we need more things like this ad that show things as they really are. Thanks, Roberto!

I don't think it is so much that we aren't happy, at least not at first, but that it is instilled in our young from the day they are born kwim? I mean, we have these superskinny models, beautiful woman, but you hardly she a bigger beautiful woman on an ad, except for recently. We are told skinny is beautiful when it just isn't that true.

I heard not to long ago, that girls who are young, like 7 have already been on an average of like 5 diets. I can't remember where I read that at, but it was amazing.

We can go into anystore, look at something and say, "wow, I like that" but then find out it isn't in our size or you must be a size 0 to look like that. This happens for my oldest dd who is 9 too. She is 5 feet tall, wears a size 10 shoe and has to wear womans clothes, when she still likes what my youngest dd wears like cute little skirts and stockings, etc. My daugther will say, "I want hair like that" but I try to explain that will take hours and probably a lot of fake extensions to look like that. I want her to know that it is fake and you don't have to be what is in an ad to be beautiful.

It rellay does give one pause as to what real and not on the Bill Boards and the modeling world..