Girl Power

As women, we have rights. Not everyone knows this, not everyone accepts it, not everyone cares. We have to work for what we want and what we deserve. So many people look down upon us for no reason what so ever. 

Such a great article!

http://www.rolereboot.org/family/details/2012-10-how-to-accidentally-raise-a-feminist-daughter


Michelle Happala and I (haapalmi.blogspot.com) are now creating a movie for this class that is all about women in society today!





Here is another website that is very informational about women who care today. If you want to help take a stand, follow this site. 

http://www.womenarewatching.org

Artist statement about our movie!

This educational short film of feminism portrays our ideas and opinions on not only being a woman, but also on how women are treated in society. We explore this concept of feminism in a personal way that displays both positive and negative aspects of the role of women in American society. We explore how we view feminism as well as the views of other individuals in our community. Emily and I decided to take a hands-on approach to creating this video by having the individuals write a word or phrase that they associate with feminism. This allowed for other perspective to be represented in our film, which worked well with our wish to include a wide variety of women and opinions. This created more of a personal connotation to the film, which we wanted to achieve. The audience is very important in the viewing process of a movie, and by establishing these relationships on the screen, we hope the audience relates and grabs a hold of our concepts through these emotions.

We wanted to portray feelings that build up to a reality of how women are portrayed and stereotyped in society. This build up from positive to negative draws the viewer into a perspective from a woman’s point of view. How have these stereotypes evolved? How have women been targeted in society through out history? We explore a modern way of viewing these ideas and use strong, specific, women examples to portray this concept.

While creating this piece, we took into account all the technical strategies and concepts that could aid in our idea. For example, the effects and transitions all contribute to the abrupt and dramatic ending. The film has an emotional and riveting feeling that is aided by the quick and stark changes in scene. The gradual change of a positive connotation to a negative connotation is the main experience we wanted the audience to get out of the movie. This feeling is the most effective on the audience with the concept of feminism. If the viewer experiences a feeling during a visual work, that emotion will stick with them. We wanted to use this concept to affect the audience through strong emotional content, forcing them to relate to their own opinion of feminism.

We believe our video is successful in educating the public on stereotypes of women, from a women perspective. We wanted to display a dramatic and raw form of women sharing their opinions. The action of having the women write on a sign to display their view, allowed us to form a relationship with them, and therefore creating a relationship with the viewer. The public can relate easily to reality, and real individuals. This aspect also contributes to the positive education of feminism to the community in this film.

I think our film will portray many ideas of feminism, women, and stereotypes. Our goal for this film is to educate, inspire, and create perspective. We hope that through this real and pure movie, individuals will react, and allow themselves to be vulnerable enough to speak their minds, and act on their opinions. It is when we do this, that we create change.