My Super Sweet Sixteen
The reality T.V. show that I watched was My Super Sweet Sixteen. This T.V. show is classified as a reality, news/documentary and it is shown on MTV. All the episodes take place in the same area. According to Wikipedia, "The parties are often set in the same towns. Locations that have featured two or more teenagers include La Jolla, California; Newport Beach, California; Atlanta, Georgia; Beverly Hills, California; New York, New York; Scottsdale, Arizona; Palm Beach Gardens, Florida; Miami, Florida, and Erie, Pennsylvania." When trying to find a list of the people who work on making this T.V. show the lists that I came across seemed to be different for each episodes. It seems as though they hire different people to prep each episode or a few episodes and then they get someone else. This episode was about a girl named Chelsi. She is a thin girl with long brown hair and a very pretty face. She knows she is hot and makes sure that everyone knows she is. Chelsi wants this party to be all about her so she is requiring everyone to dress in a white toga while she wears one that is brightly colored. She wants there to be a gaze on her. To prep for her party she has her dress personally made for her, when it isn't what she wants the first time she demands that a new one is made. She then goes to the gym to recruit four men to carry her into the party. In order to pick them she asks them to take off their shirts and the camera looks up and down their bodies. This is the only part of the show where there is a female gaze. Before her party she also has pictures taken of her and her girlfriends. She is the typical stereotype of a snotty, rich girl who has to have everything her way. You see this many times as she is constantly complaining when things aren't going her way or when she isn't getting all the attention. She asks her dad for a car for her birthday because she says that everyone is expecting her to get one. He says he wont but in the end he gives in to her and gets her one. This show is all about teenagers who get what ever they want. It is mostly directed toward teenage girls but there are some teenage boys on the show getting whatever they want. This show is a stereotype creator. Here is a link to some of the reactions of viewers: http://www.tv.com/my-super-sweet-16/show/33149/summary.html