1) Be curious:
People should fall in love of trying new things from time to time and experience the world around them. In a article from 'The Guardian', it argues that the case of curiosity might have an intrinsic link to a happier existence.
In The Guardian it reads ''We think of curiosity as openness to exploring one's environment, being broad-minded and being open to new experiences and learning opportunities'' says Professor Dr. Maria Kangas of Macquarie University's department of Psychology.
2) Experience life:
If you're are the type of person who wants to be happy and feel good about yourself, you need to get out and experience life by going to the park, riding a bike, going out with friends, and going somewhere that you've never been before yourself, for example going to a different country.
Dr. Thomas Gilovich, a psychology professor at Cornell University, has been studying the effects of experience on happiness for two decades. Gilovich says ''Our experiences are a bigger part of ourselves than our material goods. You can really like your material stuff. You can even think that part of your identity is connected to those things, but nonetheless they remain separate from you. In contrast, your experiences really are part of you. We are the sum total of our experiences.''
3) Laugh every day:
When someone laughs, you release happy hormones called oxytocin and endorphins. These are hormones that uplifts everyone as we share experiences with others, even if its just a smile it will make your day.
4) Do what you love:
By doing the things that you love to do is an other way to make you smile. If you like for example listening to music, playing sports, reading a book, and working out don't hesitate to do those kinds of activities if that makes you feel happy and feel better about yourself.
5) Avoid regrets:
We know that we weren't born perfect and mistakes happen in life, which is normal and part of our human nature. However, with a little forethought, you can avoid making those mistakes and forgive yourself and others because everyone else just trying to get through life that best they can. Just stay focus more on the happy things that you do in your life.
What have you learned from this research? How does it help you with your ideas for your ideas for your production?: I have learned a lot from this research and sort of taught me how to stay happy and be who I am and it will defiantly help me with my ideas for my production because I know what I'll be doing for my production.
Any articles you can find about reducing stress and explain what you have learned.: Their is an article that talks about how to reduce stress, that such article is called ''Stress: Ways to Ease Stress". The article talks about how to overcome stress in the healthy way such as exercise regularly, eat healthy, and stop using tobacco and nicotine products.
Sunderland mental health: According to the website called Chrysalis Courses, that one in five residents who are over 18 suffer from mental health issues. This is in fact, the highest in whole of Britain.
A mental health charity in the area has also said that it now sees 350 people per month who display a range of mental health problems. However Dorothy Gardiner, project manager of Sunderland Mind, says that despite seeing ''more people coming through the doors than ever before'', the facility has been funds cut by £12,000 in last year.
Charity Adverts
What do you typically see and hear in a charity TV advert?:
In a charity advert, some of them are in black and white to signify sadness of what's going on the advert. Also, the narrator speaks in low tone and slow paced when telling the viewers of what is happening on the screen. They talk like that because they want the viewers to feel really sad of whats going on in the world and they want them to donate as soon as possible.
Give some examples:
1) Shelter
In this advert, it talks about how children are alone during Christmas and they don't have any families to be with, Shelter wants us to donate just £3 to make their Christmas happy and memorable.
2) UNICEF
In this advert, UNICEF shows how children in poor countries are suffering from poverty and it is UNICEF's job to try to make their lives easier and that children should live like children. This advert show us faces of children from different countries and backgrounds, to show us how these people need our help by donating to UNICEF to make children smile again, because they know that they aren't forgotten and people do care about them.
3) ActionAid UK
This advert from ActionAid UK is about children being trafficked and the foundation are begging for help from people to protect the children, as they believe children should live in a happy and thriving life.
4) SaveTheChildren
Lastly, we look at this advert from SaveTheChildren. This advert focuses on the struggles of children during war and how them and their families have no choice but to flee from their country to migrate to a much safer environment. SaveTheChildren organisation wants us to donate take make their lives easier and saving their lives and this will make them feel happy, as they know that they are being helped by people who actually care for their safety.
Tell me what you learned from looking at these charity adverts?:
The things that I learned from these adverts is they try to convince us (viewers) to donate to help the poor and the needy and how they are desperate to help those people who are struggling of poverty, food shortage, and lack of fresh water in order to save their lives and make them feel happy.
Tell me how these charity adverts help inform you of ideas for your own charity tv advert?:
The ideas for my own charity advert is will be on children in Africa, suffering from malnutrition and lack of fresh water. I got these ideas from some charity adverts that I have seen in the past about how the children in Africa are suffering to get any food and fresh water and I want to do the same.
Target Audience
Who is my target audience?:
My target audience are the people that who are struggling with mental health and lack of self-confidence within themselves. Happy Foundation's focus is to try to make them smile and feel good about themselves, that they are important and have meaning in life. Also, Happy Foundation teaches that even though he/she have these mental illness, they can still live a normal life like everybody else and that they aren't alone.
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