Treatment
Treatment
Title: Reflection
Stylistic Approach: Structural/Formal
Our 1-2 minute film, Reflection, is based on
general stereotypes. We are focusing on looks through use of costume. For
example, you expect someone smart, who you may stereotype as a ‘nerd’, to wear
specific clothing e.g. a shirt, bow tie, a jumper and glasses. We will explore
these stereotypes through the costumes our actress will wear.
During the film she will stand wearing a specific
stereotypical outfit. Having taken multiple photos of the actress in these
different outfits, for example an athlete, a waitress, a nerd… She will hold
one of the photos in an opposing outfit to the one she is wearing. The photo
will burn, implying that no one is just one thing, they can fit into many
stereotypes all at the same time.
Working
title: Diverge
Length:
5-10 minutes
Stylistic Approach: non-linear
Our
5-10 minute film will be a makeup tutorial with a man doing his makeup step by
step. This will then ‘glitch’ to a woman who is smudging her perfect makeup.
However, the tutorial will not be shown in order it will jump around, but the
woman’s voiceover will talk about the steps in order.
Our
general theme is stereotypes, but we will be focusing on the pressure of
stereotypes and the upkeep of appearances. The film will be set out like a
general makeup tutorial video with someone positioned directly in front of the
camera to record it, but we will use the footage of them talking directly to
their camera with a multitude of different shots. For example, we will have a
wide shot of the man doing his makeup whilst glancing down to the small mirror,
and then looking back up to the camera. By it being a man who does the tutorial
and not a woman it will already seem strange and contrast our typical views. We
will film him doing his full face of makeup in the order you would normally
apply it. However, it will be edited so that it doesn’t go in order, therefore
his make-up will continually change as he may start with eye shadow on but then
later it would disappear. Throughout the tutorial we will have ‘glitches’ in these it
will show a woman with a full face of makeup but on each glitch, she will
smudge her makeup more and more. These ‘glitches’ will become more and more frequent as the film goes
on, and we will see the woman become more distraught throughout each ‘glitch’. This implies that she doesn’t want to keep up
her ‘perfect’ appearance and
defy the ‘rules’ of society.
Throughout
the film, we will have a voiceover narrating the tutorial like you’d expect,
except it won’t be his voice, but the woman’s. She will narrate it as if she’s
looking at him doing his makeup in the correct order, making it non-synch
sound. All you will see on screen will be him doing his makeup with his mouth
moving as if he is narrating, but there will be none of his actual audio that
can be heard. For the ‘glitches’ all the sound will be non-synch, you will hear
laughter, but she won’t be moving her mouth at all. For the last ‘glitch’ it will be a
longer ‘glitch’, and on screen
we will see the woman full on rolling her head back laughing, however, the sound
will just be a prolonged glitch sound. We want to send a message through this
film about how society perceives each gender, for girls getting dressed up we
expect them to have a full face of makeup but don’t accept it if we see a man
with a full face of makeup. This creates high expectations to uphold certain
standards to be seen in public, a girl can’t expect to look presentable without
makeup. We also perceive that if a man has makeup on we automatically label him
as gay, which is unacceptable in this day and age.
We
got inspiration for this piece from general makeup tutorial videos on YouTube.
Two big influences were ‘Break Free’ by Ruby Rose and ‘Stereo’ by Ella
Fields. These really helped to inspire us as Ruby’s video is all about wiping
away an appearance that society would expect, to reveal her true self. In the
video we see Ruby start out looking very glamorous as she’s getting ready for
what we presume is a night out, we see her look in the mirror and reject the
charade that she’s been living. The smudge idea came mainly from this film as
she’s seen revealing the tattoos and removing her makeup, we really liked how
it fit with our theme of people being pressured into specific stereotypes. ‘Stereo’ reverses
gender roles which is where we got the idea to make him do the makeup tutorial
instead of the woman because you’re more likely to be shocked by him wearing
and applying make-up. In ‘Stereo’ the girl wants
to join a theatre group and gets stared at and talked about. Therefore, we will
use the man to do the tutorial as makeup is portrayed as a feminine product, so
is unusual if a man wears it, again further illustrating our theme.
We
will shoot them both in the same bedroom at different times, sitting on the
floor with their back leaning against the bed. The camera which they are using
to film themselves will be placed in front of them on a tripod, although there
will also be another camera that we will use to get a multitude of shots. We
will switch between a close-up, this will be from the camera they’re looking
at, and other extreme close ups, mid shots and wide shots of the whole room.
The ‘glitches’
will be between an extreme close-up and a normal close up. We will use the
extreme close up in the later ‘glitches’ to make the
audience feel uncomfortable. It will all be shot in colour, but the glitch
shots will be less saturated to show that life and the pressure of stereotypes
are draining her. For the sound element of the film, we will have the voice over
from the woman’s voice but also create a glitch and static sound to further
illustrate the change on screen. When the ‘glitches’
appear, we will have multiple voices laughing, some of these voices we’ll
distort others we’ll add on an echo along with some other effects.
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