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Pressure to Be Perfect

Pressure to be perfect is a major issue around the UK and even the world, having the advertising of size 0 models with a high extent of airbrushing in magazines and on TV, this has become a normality in mixed genders minds hence determination to be stick thin or call yourself fat with the wonder of why their skin isn't flawless. If you don't look like the models in magazines or in any other advertising you are classed as 'ugly'. The most common influence of these issues are involved with fashion advertising, on the catwalk or even on a shops windows to advertise their clothes or makeup.

I will project and develop these feelings of pressure, weakness and the contrast of skinny, normal and overweight throughout my project from the human body to advertising, picturing natural movement and expressions involved in the industry of fashion. I will experiment with multiple different artists and techniques of how to picture these images, all evolving round the human body/fashion/food/natural products and developing a story behind each concept.

I will experiment with different lighting from soft and sharp studio lighting to ambient light emphasising the shadows from loss of weight or the different shapes created from the multiple positions models or objects. I will contrast with different techniques with close up, aperture, shutter speed and many others to portray the message of the image.

experimenting with mixed medias to emphasise the feelings from a healthy normal human being to a pressured weaker and thinner representative, from cyanotype, photogram, liquid light, sellotape transfer and many different mixed mediums but I will choose affectively so they link with the project. 

I have been inspired for this project by multiple adverts in magazines and fellow peers from always having similar thoughts and written pieces for the only way to be perfect is to be a size 0 and evolving around fashion. I want to reflect the ideas of skinny as beautiful, fat as ugly and a mixture of other ideas from fashion and natural objects in the oncoming photos I will take also my images will convey a story behind them to represent the story.