Study Task 8

Rationale

• What is your theme?

My theme is based around the impacts of fashion within the film industry and how this links to the way women view their own appearance in a patriarchal society.

• How are you exploring it visually (methodology)?

I have been exploring this theme beginning with line and collage in relation to the topics of aesthetic within society (more generally) and then narrowing it down to looking at fashion icons within film and primarily their audiences.

• Why are you doing it this way?

To start with I wasn't too sure which part of my research I wanted to focus on, so I began with a breadth of different responses to the theme, now I am focusing more on a particular area (audience and film).

• Materials?

Using collage I can manipulate images that already exist and make them into something new, describing the issues (such as the alteration of appearance) I acknowledge within my research. Also, I want to use line to reflect the regimented views within the film/fashion industry as to what is/isn't acceptable, as well as the male gaze and journey of the industry through the decades.

• Any key theorists who have influenced this?

The views of the male gaze have been influenced primarily by John Berger in 'Ways of Seeing' and Laura Mulvey in 'Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema'. The key theorists I am looking at link somehow to audience and they way they are affected by what they see in film. I want to explore this further and re-focus my practical work on this.