Inspiration For Our Music Video

The Never Ending Pursuit of perfection

 This is one of the first videos we watched about body image, this showed use the full effect and huge impact on the world the media has on young people. This shows various different statistics which emphasize the drastic n the world. Body image is entirely based on aspiring to be like someone else, the idea of the perfect body is artificial, This is created using computer software to touch up images and reduce and increase different body part sizes to create this aspirational "perfect figure".

Dove Real Beauty Sketches

This advert is about peoples perception of themselves, it shows and provides an understanding of peoples pessimistic opinion of themselves and shows how other people see them. This video shows a positive outlook on how other people would describe someone else in comparison to how people criticize themselves.

Positive Body Image

This video shows a girl looking at herself in the mirror seeing something that isn't actually real. She sees herself as larger in the mirror when she is the complete opposite, this inspired us to use this technique to portray the image of low self esteem. It also shows photoshopped images which we will also be doing to enhance the image itself.


Beyoncé - Pretty Hurts

 This music video shows the struggle of the artist Beyoncé throughout the video. We have taken inspiration of idea of eating cotton wool, this fills up the stomach making you feel hungry so you don't eat, this would be a intertextual reference.Also we could use the idea of someone weighing themselves and not being the "perfect weight". We will also be using the idea of having the perfect sized face shape as shown in the screenshot from the music video below:

Meghan Trainor - All About That Bass

This song is a catchy doo-wop song, which is about self-acceptance (and unapologetic bum shaking). As our music video will be a narrative our song is about the struggle being over so we will be using different aspects and ideas form this video to show the struggle is over. This music video is different in comparison to the other videos and music videos I have looked at as this is a positive view on body image. This video shows women embracing their body.


Other songs that show body image include:
Beautiful Christina Aguilera

Piece of me Britney Spears
Girl next door and Imperfection Saving Jane
Just a little bit Maria Mena

Lily Allen - Hard Out Here

 This music video is also targeting body image, is shows the struggle of being a woman and trying to be the perfect size and shape. The actors in this video are also not supermodels and have imperfections showing that it is okay to not have the "perfect figure". This video also shows surgery to change and alter herself like the beyoncé music video.



Elle Fanning Film About Body Image

 This short video shows the 15-year-old actress walking through a dimly-lit subterranean party filled with emaciated models in various states of undress and gyration. She goes in a bright bathroom and starts to apply mascara, as her hand goes up to her face, her skin becomes a grotesque, broken mask. She looks horrified and starts picking at her face. After it goes back to normal, she is so overcome with upset she makes herself vomit in a toilet. We could also use an intertexual reference of the bathroom scene of her looking in the mirror and becoming a broken mask.
We will use the same style in the way that this video was filmed, this is in the perspective of a narrative of her going through a struggle. Also it used point of view which we will be using as well.

Marylin Monroe
Marylin Monroe was a major sex symbol who embraced her curvaceous body. This still to this day help inspire young women to love their body no matter what size.