As I said in class, the aspect I find most interesting is the fact that the strongest female characters we saw this weekend were those portrayed by a man. I think juxtaposing these characters would best show their discrepancies. Showing Mandy from The Decorator trying to sell her method of husband distraction (which I guess we don’t actually have footage of, but maybe show the actor who played Mandy explaining that the characters aren’t real might work. We’ll have to experiment to see what works) and putting that against Paul’s character trying to sell poetry. (Again, I don’t know if we have any footage of that. I only took footage of DJ girl.) Then, if we have the footage, juxtaposing the mother from Pinkalicious with the mother from Paul’s show. We could show how one mother is actually trying to teach her daughter life lessons while the other mother appears to be a flat character who only scolds but never actually teaches a lesson.

Though this may be less compelling than the juxtapositions I already mentioned, we could also put the DJ girl (which I did take footage of) against Pinkalicious and Barbara. These three characters, I feel, are the main decision makers. The DJ is choosing to strike out on her own and try to make a name for herself in a world dominated by men. Not only does she live with the other guys, female DJ’s still have a hard time making it. The field is dominated by male performers and the audience doesn’t always respond respectfully to female performers. Pinkalicious is also the main decision maker, but a.) she is only trying to decide if she should eat pink food or green. Also, it is only after she turns read and experiences the negative consequences of her choices that she decides to eat green food. Plus the fact that being given a binary is not actually making choices. If there are only two options and the character is being told which one to choose, there’s not much of a lesson there. Finally, we add in the character of Barbara who decides to take control of her life and, guess what, she’s crazy. But, females of the world, this is a good lesson, take control of your happiness and you’ll commit murder. Best to live unsatisfied and unhappy. Let the men do the thinking. This all depends on if we have the right footage so we’ll have to wait and see.

I think it would be nice to try and have a least part of the video be a mash-up in the style of the Disney things have seen on Youtube. I feel like we are not expert enough to do a Pogo style video. (Pogo takes sound clips from Disney movies and makes songs out of them. So like every clip is from Snow White or, my favorite, Up.) But we probably could compile some of the footage so that we create our own message for twenty to thirty seconds. I think that is similar to the idea that was floated yesterday about showing how Pinkalisious’s family were run out of the Mission District and then they become the women of The Decorator. The only problem with that narrative specifically is that we have no footage of The Decorator. Maybe we can take scenes from Showgirls and American Pyscho to recreate scenes from The Decorator. Better yet, American Psycho and Designing Women. Or maybe Will and Grace. We’ll have to do some experimentation and see where things go with that angle.