Imagine A World Where Everyone is Represented in TV shows and Movies

In Unit 1 in Rhetoric ,we learned about rhetorical devices and persuasive speeches. For this Action Project , I had to create a question that involved political importance and answer with persuasion using ethos ,pathos and logos. The purpose of this action project is to answer the question you've created with persuasion in 2 minutes. After finishing my first action project I am proud of getting the video done in at exactly 2 minutes and choosing a topic that I can talk about from experience. This AP made me realize how hard it is to persuade someone in the most effective way using all three methods and, how much logos matter when trying to get your audience to receive your message.

The question I chose to answer is ,"how does lack of representation in the entertainment industry affect how children grow up to view themselves and others?"I chose this question because I felt as if minorities were not being represented as much as white people are . It causes self-esteem issues, lack of confidence and changes the way society views people. People ignore this problem, I wanted to shed light onto it and persuade my audience that it is an issue and affects our society.

For my first action project I am proud of getting the video done in at exactly 2 minutes and for choosing a topic that I can talk about from experience. In part of my speech ,I talked about how lack of representation affected me. I wanted to get my audience to feel as if they could trust me by sharing my experience. I knew that not only me has been affected by lack of representation. I am also proud that my video ends at 2 minutes, I thought I would have trouble trimming some of my speech out, but I got to say everything in the time frame.

This AP made me realize how hard it is to persuade someone in the most effective way using all three methods( pathos,logos,ethos), and made me realize how much logos matter when trying to get a message across. While editing my videos , I learned how to add watermarks and a logo on a video. When I typed out my speech , I found it was difficult to use ethos, but found pathos and logos easy to use. When using only 2 methods, a speech isn't as effective as it could be if someone would use all 3. When making my logo, I wanted to make something that went with my message , I decided to create a different skin tones raising their hand in a television to show diversity.

This Unit 1 AP was a good learning experience, I learned about rhetoric and rhetoric devices(pathos,egos and logos). I got to know the process of creating a persuasive speech, by putting together statistics, knowing who your audience is , using emotional appeal and establishing credibility.

Below is my Action Project speech.

Script:
Lack of representation in the entertainment industry has a negative effect on children who are minorities and results in self esteem issues .Hollywood and big name productions in the industry are known for casting majority white actors. When casting roles for minorities they assign a specific role or a role that is stereotypical, this is called type casting.

For example African Americans are usually cast for slave movies, or thug related roles.
Asians are usually cast to act as an ethnicity that they are not.Indians/ or middle easterners are cast to act as terrorist and talk with a stereotypical accent. Mexicans are cast for thug related roles and as cholos.

Children begin watching tv and movies around the age of 2 or 3 , the age when their minds are starting to develop opinions . When they don’t see themselves represented in tv shows and movies they begin to look for themselves in other races. If they do see themselves represented ,but in a stereotypical way, it will have a negative effect on how they view themselves.When minorities see white children act in main roles continuously, they start to put white people on a pedestal and demean their own race or culture.

When i was younger i used to watch disney channel, most shows had a white main character except for one show, That's so Raven. watching white main characters, I couldn't relate to them. Watching a main character that was an african american girl helped my self esteem because i looked like her and could relate to her issues.

In 2015 and 2016 all oscar nominees were white this caused backlash from the viewers. The angered viewers created a hashtag that depicted the lack of diversity in hollywood.In politics, when choosing who to vote for the president , people tend to vote for the candidate whom they think will help the country the most.But race influences that decision. In 2008, african -american candidate Obama was running for president, some racist voters decided to vote for his opponent John Mccain simply because he was white. Growing up and seeing african american roles as slaves and thugs, that mentality stays with you as you get older. But because Obama was elected president he has been dismissing those negative stereotype toward blacks.