Representation of Women.

For this project we had to create a short documentary showing the representation of women.

The reason I used this clip of Dita Von Teese is because people do think she is giving women a bad image becuase she is a burlesque dancer. However the majority of her fan base is female, as Dita Von Teese explains. Although considered sexual, Dita uses her talent dancing and turns her acts into something very classy, as with most burlesque shows. She is known to embrase her gender, with elite class. It is clear why she has many adoring female fans.

The second clip is of Sierra Boggess, she was the original Ariel in the Broadway adaption of The Little Mermaid. There was an emphasis on girl power within this version, with the changes enforced by the director. The original Little Mermaid is much more gruesome, with much more pressure on the Ariel to be with the Prince. In the Original she has to make the prince love her more than he loves his parents and she has to get the prince to marry her in three days. During these Three days, she will have legs, but no tongue and no voice. Despite Ariel trying, the prince marries someone else. Ariels sister's then come out of the water and give her a knife by explaining all she has to do is kill the prince and let his blood spill onto hers legs, in doing this, her legs will merge back into a mermaid tale and she can return to her normal mermaid life. Ariel can't bring herself to do this so she ends up killing herself  and turning into sea foam.

In the Disney version, this does not happen. Although the disney version was softened down to make it more suitable to be seen a fairy tale, most of the heroic acts are done by the female characters are cut out. Leaving the female characters, especially Ariel to be seen as less of a hero leaves the Prince to be the hero, making him out to be macho. Is this what caused the problem we have today? Children are growing up with stories which suggest the male character is always the hero and the one people should be like.

The next clips are about music, mainly with how female singers are represented. With music and music videos, there is a lot of difference, but this could be due to female views of other females More of this is explained by this video.