Women have gone through a series of hardships throughout their lives, most of the time, they are being downgraded. Nowadays, feminist movements are on the rise. More and more women are starting to have their place in their society. Have you realised? Noble people like Malala, whom fought for the education rights of women, Hilary Clinton, whom was one of the candidates to run for president of the United States, and Janet Yellen, an American economist that helped with the Great Economical Depression back in 2008. So what better than to make a video about women empowerment.We agreed to focus more on women and to make a video of what a women had to go through.

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Initially, we wanted to make a video where a women is seen putting on make up on her face, and each make up symbolises for something. For example, eye shadow is a symbol for confidence, so everyday she has to put on eye shadow just so she can show confidence. But after the consultation with our lecturer, Mr Charles, it seems the idea we had could be better. He gave us a lot of inspirations of how each of us has a hidden super power in human beings, like having a power to forgive someone when the sin that they have committed is so big. 

 

So we finally came up with 2 storylines that are related to the 2 categories that we’ve narrowed down which is the stereotypical thinking of the society on women and how women are more of an easy target to be harmed aka- ABUSED.

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IDEA 1

First we’ll see a girl in a black hoodie, in a box labelled “cage of insecurities”. She’ll crouching in the box, looking depressed. She’s fed up with everything. She will then be seen picking up her phone and calling 2 abusers that have abused her. She called them so that she can get things straight.

 

When these 2 anonymous people arrive at the destination, the girl was already standing in the middle of the hall. They’ll be a bunch of people standing behind her, which represents her. Her "shadows" These "shadows" will hold up signs that describe what kind of abuse she has been through, eg; being crushed down, being beaten up psychologically and physically, being looked down, getting no respect. And one by one she’ll give a speech, that is the opposite of the signs that is being held by the shadows, and while she says that, the shadow man will break the signs, one by one. Until every shadow man has broken their sign, there will only be one person left in the back or the middle, wearing a different colour shirt/hoodie than the group, preferably bright colours like red or yellow. He’ll  walk forward and put on a hoodie on the the girl (with the hood on the girl’s head) the hoodie will represent that she is a fighter. When the girl is saying her final words, she’ll take of her  hoodie of her headband forgive to the 2 abusers that has given her so much pain, in which we’ll reveal the 2 abusers, which is ‘society’ and ‘stereotypes’. After she finishes her speech or conversation, she’ll walk away from the 2 abusers, leaving them 2 being guilty, with their head down.

 

 

IDEA 2 (same plot but different approach)

In the past, the girl was very cheerful. One day, an anonymous decided to give her a mysterious bag. Now in the present, she is seen being depressed. She is finally fed up with the fact that she’s doing nothing with her life. Shes fed up how each day is being wasted. Finally she’s called up the person that gave the mysterious bag so that they can meet up.  When they finally met up, the girl will stand in front of the anonymous, with a table piled with a stack of paper on her right and a rubbish bin on her left. Each piece of paper is written one typical women stereotype that the girl had to follow. One by one she’ll tell the anonymous in the face saying: “ 5 years ago you gave me (a stereotype), but I'm tired of doing this. I am…..(something powerful). After that, she’ll tear the piece of paper and throw it into the bin. She’ll continue to do that with the other pieces of paper. When she’s done, she’ll be seen tying a knot on the rubbish bag that is filled with the torn paper, and giving to the anonymous ( the bag will be called a bag of stereotypes, which will be revealed when she takes the rubbish bag of the rubbish bag). We will then reveal the anonymous is “society”. The girl will then say something like “here's the bag u gave me 5 years ago. A bag that has totally crushed my life. Take it back and never return it.” ‘Society’ will be seen holding the bag and the girl will be seen walking away from him, with a smile on her face, feeling free like never before, leaving society behind.