2. OVERVIEW
1. Youth’s Exposure to Films.
2. Possible “Cons” of Movies .
3. Possible Benefits of Movies.
4. Conclusion
3. 1. Mass Media is Pervasive in the
Lives of Youth
TV, radio, music, 30% multi-task:
magazines, movies, phone+IM+music++
video games, cell, TV+surf the web.
internet, e-mail, IM, 53% - families have
cds, dvds, MP3, etc. no rules - TV.
Youth (8-18) – 6.5 51% - use web daily.
hrs per day or 44.5 32% - use IM daily
hrs per week – all
forms of media. 2.25 hrs - parents;
1.5 hrs exercise; 50
min – homework.
4. Consequences of movies:-
Alcohol-
From 2008-2011, the number of TV alcohol ads seen by
youth increased by 32%.
The top 15 TV shows with the largest youth (12-17)
audience had alcohol ads.
Smoking-
Movies exposure was primary risk of smoking initiation
for 38% who tried smoking.
Vulgarity-
Vulgarity is getting increased day by day.
5. Cons
Movies definitely throw strong impact on our society
and its people but more on youth.
Now a days they are giving more attention towards
movies not on other areas.
Most movies have sex content, terrorism which leads
youth's mind to dangerous way.
Movies are not showing the real life facts except a
few exceptions. Youngsters see such movies &
expect a very rich lifestyle & excess money without
much hardwork. Some youngsters start smoking &
drinking seeing filmstars.
8. Cons Contd.
Film stars also participate in advertisements of alcohol,
cigarettes, etc. & youth follow them blindly.
Current scenario, youth want some excitement in movie.
Excitement in the sense action, romance or society
relationship.
Modern cinemas are violent, no moral code, sexy scenes that
induces crime in the society.
Abusive language, intimate scenes and vulgarity is corrupting
our youth and corrupt their mind-set.
In lot of movies we see that Hero has a lot of bad habits like
smoking, drinking etc. but it being showed like it’s a good
habit to have & youth fallow it.
9. Pros of Films
The minds of youth are like potter's clay, Good cinema when
made in a way to inspire and motivate youth can rightly
make use of their energy.
Movies introduce youths to cultures, historical events and
stories with which they are unfamiliar. Movies used in
classrooms enhance learning.
Movies are enjoyable for all age group people. They stimulate
people's emotions, imaginations and conversations.
Good cinema can keep the youth off the streets, inspire
them, stimulate creativity, provide role models, broaden
horizons, send positive messages about life and the world
12. Pros Contd.
A good cinema always raises issues that makes them question
things and force them to search solution.
Stretches their imaginations and possible learn something
about the world.
Good comedy movies always refresh the mind & help in
increasing creativity.
The knowledge we have learn in school is very limited, but in
the media, you could obtain necessary supplements for
broadening your view.
13. Conclusion
Each and every movie has its positive and negative points.
As per my view is concern, from movie we learnt so many
good things. Now its totally depends upon youth's mind,
which point they grasped from the movie.
It depends on the mentality of peoples that how we are
adopting the things and what we are adopting like in movie
"DHOOM" in which so many tricks are there to stole
anything, which is not good for our society and also we can
take the example of movie "3 IDIOTS" where so many things
are there to learn, which is good for our society.
So in my opinion movies are like knife for our society it
depends on us how we take it.