My Final 20% Project

1. How movies Affect
Teens’ behavior
By: Mary Beth Williams

2. Violent Movies
When Teens watch violent movies, they tend to become more violent
Watching violent movies can cause more aggressive teens because when you
watch a movie you brain is in an altered state of consciousness, in which it
remembers things easily
During your teen and pre-teen years is when you children develop the most, so it
is important to fill their heads with important things
Kids are watching movies in which the movies involve violence and then the
people who do the violent actions doesn’t get punished or barely get punished

3. Voluptuous Movies
• Kids are becoming active at younger ages
• Teens who watched more of these movies at a younger age are more active than their friends
who don’t watch these movies
• Less likely to delay gratification, teens are more likely to be impulsive and not think about the
consequences
• In fact, G-rated movies are part of the problem. The O'Hara study also analyzed the sexual
content in 700 films, all top-grossing films from 1998-2004. Defining "sexual content" as
anything from heavy kissing to actual sex scenes, researchers found sexual content in more
than a third of the G-rated movies, more than half of PG-rated films, and four out of every
five R-rated movies.

4. Smoking in Movies
Smoking in Movies is responsible for addicting 6,000 kids under 18 have their first
1080 teens to tobacco every year cigarette each day
340 adolescents will die prematurely from 1999 study by the U.S. Department of
tobacco use Health and Human Services found
tobacco in 79% of movies rated G or PG
Main characters smoking is more persuasive and 82% of those rated PG-13.
than regular advertisements
60% of smoking in movies was found in kids
movies (G,PG,PG-13)

5. Movies on Young Kids
If you watch more than two hours of movies a day you have a bigger chance
of being obese when your older
Watching an excessive amount of movies as a kid can make you have a
shorter attention span because you never want to go outside of your
comfort zone
They see violent practices and activities in movies, get attracted to it and try
to do the same thing in their schools as well without thinking of the
consequences