Representation - Female

I continued to study how different people are represented in various media forms looking mainly at women again. I often found that in the examples given to me and found, they tended to be vulnerable, weak, emotional, "sexualized"and generally inferior to males.

I then focused on looking at females in video games rather than just in films. In video games, the female characters are often shown as skinny and with what girls considered nice hair. This repetitive image of females perhaps reinforces into girls minds what the ideal image of a girl should be.

There are occasionally times where a female character is represented quite differently. With perhaps not such a perfect image, or different attitudes or roles. An example of this could be Sarah Connor from The Terminator films. She very much takes on a more dominant and violent role. However, this could be criticised as just keeping the exact same stereotypes of a male action role but just replacing them with a female actor, giving them no originality or difference to the male role.

I like knowing and studying the general norm of how women are represented in media forms as it's giving me more ideas to how I can make a really original style for my graphic narrative idea.