Beauty Ideals
Create and edit a video, incorporating transitions and music to communicate an evoking message.
Brief Objective
Insight
True beauty is cultivated from looking within.
Big Idea
"Check my melanin"
For this assignment we were required to construct a short video, we needed to select music that supports our topic.
The video needed to meet a 2-4 minute run time; the visual track had to play a minimum of 20 images, maximum 40 images; transitions had to be placed between each image; with a title slide introducing materials; at least one voice sound track that details or explains the topic of the project and relate to the visual track in some way; underlying theme music that adjusts around the voice over; and a bibliography title at end.
The subject I selected for this project was ‘Beauty Ideals’, focusing on what they love the most about themselves; the beauty standards placed on them; what their insecurities are, what caused them and how they overcame them.
I selected this theme as I had recently taken the journey to overcome my own physical insecurities and own who I am.
The sound track music that I used was both a TLC song called ‘Unpretty’ (LaFace Records) and a song by J. Cole called ‘Crooked Smile’ (Roc Nation). I wrote a piece attached to the video, declaring my self-love and confusion with being rejected due to my physical appearance.
Offended by the density of my melanin
Distracted by the dip of lip
You, my brother and sister, prosecute me
Putting a smug smile on the face of segregation
As you separate yourself from me
Mocking and heckling at the young girl that speaks with conviction
Leaving her to walk in shame.
I am black
My lip hangs above my chin
My gums soaked in melanin
My nose has a bridge
And my hair grows UP.
(My mind is as powerful as my skin is dark)
I refuse to feel the need to convince you of what is evident
I refuse to allow you to assess me based on that.
I choose to surround myself with variations that will allow me to be more than just
A young black woman, potent in melanin with coily hair
But rather a human that walks with pride
Draped in the conviction of my voice
Enduring the hurdles of existence
While fulfilling my full potential.
My mind is as powerful as my skin is dark.