The Perception of Women in the Media

In class, our teacher asked us to come up with as many female singers/ bands as we could in 10 minutes. The list i came up with are :

• Hayley Williams  - Powerful, inspiring, beautiful Unique, Artistic, Quirky
• Amy Lee - Unique, Beautiful, unconventional Gothy, dark
• Lucy Rose -Unique, Passionate Unique, Delicate
• Joan Jett - Original, Rebellious, unconventional Edgy
• Adele- Powerful, Inspirational, Classic
• Gwen Stefani- Unique, inspiring Quirky
• Imogen Heap- unconventional Rocky, Indie, Edgy
• Little Mix- Mainstream Cliche 
• Cheryl Cole- Untalented (as a singer) skinny, (typically) beautiful. Cliche, expensive
• Aretha Franklin- Soulful, Powerful, inspirational Classic, simple
• The Saturdays- Attractive, Catchy big budget, simple
• Girls aloud- Pretty(typically), Cliche Eye-catching.
• Britney Spears- Cliche Very posed, big budget.
• J-Lo- Hip-hop Cliche, glamorous
• Christina Aguilera- Beautiful, SoulfulGlamourous
• Birdy- Alternative Quirky
• Beth Ditto- Unconventional, talented Alternative
• Cassadee Pope- trying to be like other bands, talented Punky

The one's highlighted in green are artist that i actually like, the others are just very popular artists that sprung to my mind, as they are always mentioned.

We then had to come up with at least one word that came to mind when we thought of these artists. These are written in Red.

We then had to think up a word to describe what we thought would describe their album cover. This is written in Green.


In our film, we have our two main characers, both female, and so had to take into consideration when filming, how thye should be portrayed to the audience. We took into consideration that they were two very different charcters, one a receptionist for a law firm, and the other a normal, undefined character. We decided that in order to portary this difference clearly to the audience, we would portray them at the opposite ends of the spectrum. For the receptionist,  we decided that we would portray her as being the "typical" woman percieved in the media, with her being typically beutiful, her appearance being very polished and cared for. Whereas for BAZ, we showed her as the edgy, quirky and rebellious end of the spectrum. As it was a psychological thriller genre that we were trying to portay, we decided that we should include a twist ending, much like those those used by M. Night Shyamalan. We wanted to portray the receptionist, whom would end up to be on the "bad guy's" side, to be the typical, quite cliche'd woman, so that she felt familiar to the audience, and so they would percieve her as the lead protagonist, and would feel comforted by her presence. The other, whom would actually end up to be the "good guy", was portrayed as the slightly less typical portrayal of a woman, quite edgy and not perfect. This slight unfamiliarity causes the audience to feel slightly weary of her, but then within the twist, she becomes the character that the audience takes side with and roots for.