Second Filming Location..

 My second location is Mulberry Day Nursery. It's just across the road from my house which is very convenient. Also very useful if when I come to editing I realise I've missed anything out, I can just pop over there and film a little more. The reason I chose to film in a nursery, rather than just using my school was to emphasise the journey through school life, starting as an infant somewhere that's filled with colour and evocative tactile things that are supposed to stimulate development, learning and growth. 

Sociologists and psychologists such as Frued, Fromm and Kohlberg speculated that in the first five years of your live everything you do is without a conscience or as you've not yet developed into an autonomous being yet. All the decisions you make are either made for you by a person of authority (parent, carer, teacher etc) and this has some effect on the person you're going to become in later life. I found this interesting and that's my main reason why I chose to film in an actual nursery. 

 Whilst I was in there I was very much aware about how gender stereotypes are established at such an early and impressionable age, for example pink and purple trays for the girls and green and blue trays to the boys. Princess toys with long blonde hair and low cut dresses. I understand these things are a social norm, however should this image of 'perfect' be put into children's head so early on. If people like Kohlberg and Fromm are right then this is effectively one of the most important ages, by subconsciously telling the girls they should look like skinny blonde princesses or hinting at boys that they should be muscular and toned like action man surely we are embedding these things into their mind, that when they get past  the impressionable age and into autonomous thinking through reasoning  they will subconsciously strive to fulfil the stereotype taught at the age of 5. 

I am trying to display this within my film by having paint sodden magazines and newspapers. Two very important conventions of social media. In the magazines I ripped out pages to do with dieting, hair products, alcohol consumption and tiny skinny models. I covered this in red paint. Red is a colour that represents a lot of things, blood, death, love and so on. I wanted it to represent the negatives that these magazines are doing to young woman. By publishing endless articles about diet fads and what women should look like it's causes hundreds of teenage girls to become dangerously obsessed with what they look like. By  filming this part in the nursery i thought it makes more impact. Having the little miniature chairs and tables reminds us of where we begin, and then having the red stained magazine articles is a shocking representation of what we become and how easy it is to get hold of this potentially damaging social media.