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1. 3 stimuli, all songs: Dollhouse, Rise & Fall, Running

   • Rise & Fall depicted celebrity lives, pleasing "fans" but small mistakes escalate and become scandalous, amplified in today's social media era, as cancel culture prevails.
     • Dollhouse was far more immersive, analysing gave me many ideas
       • Artaudian elements used in music video
         • Symbolic world created using a seemingly normal doll-house
           • Symbolic objects represent duality, e.g a smiling dressed-up skeleton in her smoking brother's room, to dolls with blacked-out eyes hiding behind make-up
         • Clock ticking to make viewer uncomfortable
           • Doll-like stiff jerky movement
         • Flashing between scenes
           • Spelling Dollhouse, "repeated sounds have a hypnotic effect" -Artaud
         • Visuals: a dim flickering blue light, allowing more shadows and darkness, coveying how she "sees things no-one else sees."
           • Visual poetry effectively emphasises what this song portrays: not everything is always as it seems.
             • don't know what goes on "behind the curtains"
       • Key themes of societal expectations, especially on growing women

2. Intentions

   • Initially
     • We intended to help the audience understand the negative impacts of societal expectations on young women.
     • I wanted the audience to be shocked into confronting their own attitudes through dark humour and satire
   • These intentions have developed
     • Instead of focussing inclusively on gender prejudice, we intend to show women's potential, with female pioneers through the eras, while highlighting their undermined struggles
       • Inform the audience about sexism throughout the eras, engaging them through Bretchian techniques, dark humour and satire
       • Although successful women face bigger hurdles, they seem overshadowed by men and society fails to credit them equally. So I want to inform the audience about inspiring women, labelled "controversial" so they can re-consider their perspoectives.

3. Lyric from Dollhouse "put on your doll faces" inspired me to research the change in societal expectations on women

   • Nora from A Doll's House
     • objectified as a submissive doll
     • symbolised every woman's oppression
     • play banned, "contraversial"
       • revealing that era's prejudice, women shouldn't realise how deprived they were
     • freed herself from patriarchy, "dolls-house"
       • I want this piece to reflect this metaphor, getting out of the dollhouse