Video idea

I have a few ideas for a few video pieces I would like to try out based on female self identity. There is one in particular that I would like to portray the pressures we women put on each other. I would like to combine the surreal (representing the social media and technology) with the real. The basics: two nude females strip and take blank porcelain masks into their hands (doll type masks, because women these days are constructing themselves with make up Photoshop and Instagram and plastic surgery as a doll maker constructs dolls). They both put the asks on each other but not themselves. They are in a hexagon of mirrors (to be decided, a bit ambitious) and take paint into their hands a face each other and begin to apply different skin colours to the masks to accentuate cheek bones, an evenly sculpted nose, a perfectly symmetrical face the definition of beauty etc. They then take up a marker (or dripping paint? red paint or too morbid?? blue marker like the plastic surgeons? research what marker they use) and begin to mark and circle out areas of "imperfection" as plastic surgeons do pre-op. ending to be decided. maybe the film begins the darkened mirrored room and it slowly fills with light until the end when the results are bared to flood lights and the end result of the two women are revealed.. the the camera smoothly pans out to reveal the interior of a normal suburban house hold. The mirrored room would represent the head space social media have entrapped young women in. The multiple identical figures reflected in the mirrors may reflect how the beauty products and methods today result a similar look applied to alot of girls. Everyone using these products, methods and media filters almost look the same. I like the idea of using text, as I have found alot of online forums where young girls seek help for the low self esteem caused by the physical standards placed on young females by popular media today. Maybe this film would be more effective if it were two young girls rather than two women. I imagine that two women changing their complete appearance would be less shocking than two young girls being so aware of these expectations. BUT they are, as these forums prove.

Here are some video samples that I could draw inspiration from, taken from the magazine Dazed and confused. link : http://www.dazeddigital.com/artsandculture/article/18693/1/our-best-videos

I love everything about this. I love how surreal this is. The text fits in nicely and the last sentenc whispered is very effective. I would like to have the camera smooth and bobbing in my film too. I would enter the house and give the viewer the sense of a normal suburban environment. Then the house would take subtle transformations to represent the inner workings of the mind and would focus on objects representing beauty because this film would be party about the objectification of women after all. the last room would be the room of mirrors. or perhaps I would do it in reverse. I would show snippets of the texts written on these forums or have a young girl read them out. perhaps she would only whisper along to the last piece of text as this in this film.