Film Studies- short film +evaluation

https://youtu.be/N1k1lbphWUo

For my short film Ive included  the theoretical ideas of Lacan and the idea of the lack, never having  enough and Mulvey's theory of the male gaze in cinema.

At the start of the film I wanted to incorporate a series of shots of a female doing feminine tasks such as brushing her hair, putting lipstick on, painting her nails, putting tights on, to further justify the idea presented by Mulvey, that females are only seen as objects to gaze at in cinema, with no real purpose or meaning to the plot. 

Something that i changed from my original idea was the dream  sequence. Instead of waking up on a street and seeing only other females around I wanted the audience to know they are watching a dream or something unrealistic , to portray the scene and the meaning behind it i used a green screen instead and used footage from a meat factory and a Barby doll factory to again portray Mulvey's ideas through my perspective- women seen as nothing more than 'meat' and brainless  dolls made in a factory. The T-shirt also worn at the scene has the words 'fearless and feminine' which juxtaposes the scene as the girl is scared and the idea of the feminine has turned around. 

As the dream sequence ends i wanted to show the audience that the only lesson that the girl took was that she simply  needs more materialistic items and be pretty to do better- looking through pages of makeup, wanting more. I also wanted to use the audio from the Advert to show that even when not on, the thought of it its still there.

To end my short film I wanted to have the advert play once more after the girl has bough the lipstick, showing the repetition of the circle, as she is not going to be satisfyied and will keep on buying to fill the lack of the 'thing' in nthe back of our mind as Lacan calls it.