The very brief, “we’re in an elevator and you have approximately 15 seconds to listen to me in order to reach the school canteen just in time before they run out of the fancy doughnuts you really want to eat for lunch” version of our final music video:
A girl restrained by the oppressive chains of the patriarchy attempts to break free. She is blindfolded throughout the video until the very end. Throughout the video, the audience watches her attempting to challenge her subjugation; she attempts to read a book, desperately tries to gain access to books locked behind looming showcases, struggles to assert her identity while being surrounded by mannequins and statues of women that she is no different from in the context of their collective objectification. The video ends on a hopeful note with the girl being able to successfully take off the blindfold, a symbolic restraint representing the oppressive forces that shaped her life as a woman.
The woman’s character is represented in relation to multiple social issues:
Lack of access to education.
Being prevented from going against societal structures that enable such oppression.
Being unable to assert her identity—a consequence of the prevalence of women’s objectification and dehumanisation in everyday life as well as media, as Laura Mulvey examines.
The difficulty of trying to persevere in the face of subjugation.
The way these aforementioned elements will be exemplified in our music video with the help of technical elements and more has been explored fully in my mise-en-scene post!
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