I believe that my pilot pictures express the aims and intentions of my initial project proposal but additionally I believe my pilot responds to the theories I have explored so far in this term.
It states in my proposal, my weekly blogs and research that through modern culture, the media and through the male gaze’ women are made to conform to hegemonic norms of society and constantly pressurized to look a certain way. Additionally I have explored the way this isn’t affecting women but also young teenage girls. Throughout this project my intentions have been to show how the media is affecting women, their bodies and the way they think about themselves. Additionally I have explored the body form and how the media presents how skin should always be ‘perfect’
I believe through my pilot I have expressed my aims. I have challenged the way skin is presented through distorting and layering images of skin but using glossy and lighting editing through Photoshop just like the media do whether it’s in adverts, magazines or on TV. Through my pictures I have challenged the way we normally look at parts of the body and shown that even when the body of women doesn’t look normal it can still look beautiful. One of my aims was that I wanted people to stop and have to take more than one look at the images to see what it is. Furthermore through my theoretical research I have talked about the idea of being born male or female but femininity is learnt and taught. I partivularly like through my skin images you cannot tell whether it is male or female skin suggesting that femininity and masculinity is gained through cultural norms in society- the products we buy etc.
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