Initial Ideas

I found a poem website which has a section within it based on fashion as me and Charlotte's initial idea is to base it on or some how relate it to fashion. Below is a poem I found which I felt could be made in to a short film.

Beautiful Like Me
She woke up and walked in this morning.
Beauty is as beauty does.
Unless someone else was doing the beautifying.
She stood and felt,Brush, Brush.
She felt the wet,Paint, Paint.
She watched the mirror.
She watched herself.
She watched them make her prettyful.
Then she put on the dress.
Then they put it on again.
She doesn't know, they whisper.Snap, Snap.Flash, Flash.
Then the computer does its work.
More light,Less freckles,Longer neck,Higher cheekbones,Fix that ruffle in the dress,Fix that wrinkle near the eyes.
Print, print.
When she saw the shoot,She said out loud.
"I wish I looked like her."

The idea I came up with which is inspired by this piece is the idea of a young girl who's a model shes a stereotypical one at that shes slim, tall and looks good in practically anything she puts on. We see a typical day in the life of her and see her go to a fashion shoot. The impression the audience get is that this model is perfect, she's natural we as an audience believe shes got a few great shots. She looks beautiful but just not enough for what the company want. She sees the finishing piece and it looks nothing like her and idealises to be like that image.

Barbie Jail
Stifled inside the lace of her push-up bra,
her heart beats of unheard imprisonment
The cream-caked face, the red collagen pout
betray the self-esteem of ugliness behind

She entered this cage,
in search of a cure from the terrible illness
of ordinary looks
Finding fake comfort inside
the plastic jail of the female sex

Her prison guards, Vogue and Fashion,
confine her to a cell
of precise dimensions;
6 for stiletto, 25 for waist, 0 for chocolate.
The conditions are stifling, but what can she do?
Better in this beautiful hell inside,
than the ugly paradise outside.

The idea I came up with around the poem was about a girl just like the one described. We would re write the poem to make it our own. There would be no dialogue in this short film and we would have the poem be the only sound heard. We could show her doing the things mentioned in the poem and see her never leave the house. We see flashbacks of how show looked before but the audience will be left to question what made her feel this way.

Referencing

http://allpoetry.com/tag/show/fashion+