Final Idea

The idea we’ve decided on centres around the theme of a teenage girl being pressured by society and being forced into the image of feminism which has been constructed by the media.

The idea starts with a teenage girl in a cage, she is blindfolded and in hospital overalls. It is supposed to relate to suppressing a human, almost like negative connotations such as people in mental asylums.

Then two scientists come in and take her out of the cage, she is scared and confused and quite unwilling to do what they want. They take her to a lab environment and there she goes through several phases such as costume (they force her to wear a fashionable dress), hair and makeup, they give her a cigarette to curb her hunger, teach her to be bulimic, give her a bottle of vodka, high heels, drugs, teach her how to pose, how to attract a footballer, pick up burger they snatch it away, sneakily unwrap a chocolate bar (gets put in straight jacket/electric shock therapy), money, designer bag, tell her not to study, Botox and plastic surgery offers to her etc

She is being forced to conform to a typical stereotype.

Then she gets shoved onto a catwalk, people are taking pictures of her and she is really confused and she doesn’t want to walk, they make her. Cameras are clicking and people are telling her to walk and look beautiful.

At the end of the catwalk, she shouts “I’ve had enough!” then she faints/falls off the end of the stage and then falls onto her bed in her room and wakes up in reality. She is in her normal clothes and her bed isn’t made.

Concerning how the music relates to the visuals. The pace of the camera will be determined by the music, and the music is upbeat and the tempo will be fast.

Our idea is about freedom and rebelling against the force of the media but recognising the pressures which exist on young females in society. At the end the girl wakes up from the dream and realises that she doesn’t want that life, and the dream was a warning to her.