Blog 9_Wk_5_Modernity_Spectatorship_Power

1st Scene: College Apartment
Time: 8:00am

1. Cue alarm sounding
2. Young woman (age 17-20) turns it off and gets out of bed and begins to get ready for school.
3. Camera pans across room as the woman rushes to the vanity
4. Camera switches to shot on opened unitrans bus schedule sitting on computer desk, close up on "Cowell Blvd. & Drummond Rd - 8:30", Audience should be led to infer that the girl has 30 minutes for the bus.
5. Young woman finishes getting dressed, should be wearing clothing that is not horribly clashing but not too fashionable.
6. Young woman puts hair into ponytail and gets breakfast.
7. The woman returns to the room to grab her purse, looks at her make-up container, then back to the clock.
8. Camera switches to clock showing 8:26am as the time.
9. Camera back on the young woman who sighs, puts on her black rimmed glasses, and leaves the apartment without make-up.

10. Dissolve to black and then into next scene to indicate some time has passed

2nd scene: College Classroom
Time: around 10:00am

11. The young woman walks into her second class for the day.
12. It was a hot day, the woman should look slightly out of breath, perspiration mist on forehead, stray hairs visible.
13. Classroom should be mostly full, implication that the woman arrived mere minutes before class, should look hard to find a seat in.
14. The young woman should survey the room, coming across multitudes of women with their make-up done, hair done, and very fashionably dressed.
15. The young woman finds an open seat, but must pass over 4 women to get to it.
16. As the woman tries to get to her seat, the 4 women who she must past, who should be the most attractive girls cast for this scene, glance at her infrequently with distaste and disgruntled noises.
17. The young woman sees how well the women are dressed, and feels as if they are look down at her and judging her as she pasts because of how plainly dressed and looking she is.
18. The young woman gets to her seat but is distraught. She looks around the room and marvels at how well polished all the other women in the lecture are. She is ashamed of herself for not caring enough about her appearance. She feels ugly and unstylish, unfeminine. She feels as if these women are staring at her and wondering how she could be comfortable being so homely.
19. The young woman only feels comfortable once the lights are dimmed and the lecture starts.