Final Film Plan:

 Final Film Planning Process:

For my final film these are some criteria's i have to achieve when making the film:

• It has to show an example of one of the theory's we have been learning about, i decide to focus on the 'lack' theory by Jaques Lacan. I could also include that there could be a hint of the 'male gaze' theory created by Laura Mulvey but this wouldn't be the main theory focused on.
• When filming i love the use of colour in film, especially to show emotion in characters as i believe it isn't used enough in films today and can change the entire scene with creative lighting techniques.
• The beginning with start with a phone conversation that leads the main character to end up being influenced by her friend to download instagram and explore the world of social media.
• I then want this new social media platform to be essentially a rabbit hole full of the expected but unrealistic beauty standards that girls and women push themselves towards constantly.
• Then showing the reflection and comparison which goes through the girls mind, when she is reminded of her actual body compared to all the body types/figures plastered all of instagram, corrupting her mind with this fantasy idea that the new beauty standard is easily achievable.
• After this I wanted to create a montage type feel clip that links towards the typical scene in movies where there is a makeover of the main characters, so i want to have very close up scenes of the model dolling her self up, trying to achieve that perfect instagram look that society pressures her to look like now. This then also links to the lack theory and how she desires to be more like the people she sees online, always wanted to improve herself and be the perfect person.
• I think throughout this whole video, the only audio i want that's non-diegetic is the phone call at the beginning that started this whole downwards spiral off, just to emphasis that one decision can change a person entirely. Especially when they have the the pressures and influences from her close friends. Then for the rest of the video i want to research and find the perfect song to add to the video, so it makes the video visual rather than factual.
• Another idea i had was that I wanted to feature quote directly from a interview that was about how social media affects your body image. I felt like this gave the video a more realistic feel to it, because it gave examples of how this affects lots of other people around the world as well, because peoples expectations to look picture perfect all the time isn't possible.
• Once the montage is complete, she will still be seen editing her images to look completely different compared to her normal self before, showing how much the use of social media has effected the way she sees herself and the way she feels a need to change herself drastically to please others.
• All of this pressure to look perfect effects her mental health as well because nobody can ever be perfect. This creates frustration and built up a hatred towards images of women and girls who are portrayed to be perfect in magazines or social media so towards the end of the video, i will film her snapping. Snapping by going crazy, ripping pages out of magazines, maybe even burning them. I want to show this type of emotion as frustration can be demonstrated and shown different ways and change quickly too, so the switch from angry to frustrated to then sad, may be a good way to show the come down from everything getting to her and that she can't take it anymore. Then i want it to end there, hopefully this will be impactful to the audience and make people try and understand how much peoples desires can take over everything else they feel is important, pushing them to their final tipping point.