Final Project

I decided to endure in this video after being influenced by a video I saw “https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a5-SmngOoaQ“. After speaking with Professor, I decided to make this video have more meaning behind it than just looking asethically pleasing. I wanted to play on this topic of Women’s Body and how it is seen as an over sexualized over indulged subject. I wanted to use cake because it is a dessert and can be seen as a sexual example. I decided to reverse the footage of the dripping cake batter because I wanted the end to be Maggie taking back her body as her own. I have her blow out the cupcake to represent the defiance of this sexualized stereotype and quite literally putting out its flame. I used this music as a counter part to what was happening on the screen. Maggie is taking back her body, as seen on screen, but the music is Rihanna singing about “Cake” as a sexual experience. When Maggie blows out the candle the song ends as well. This is to show Maggie putting an end to this stigma and taking back her body. The long awkward slow parts are done on purpose to show that the awkwardness and uncomfortableness of this sexualized issue and raising awareness/ fight for the end of sexualization of female bodies as indulgences and pure sexual objects.

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