Final Project: Walk a mile in their shoes: Flipping the Script

Photo of Nicki Minaj being interviewed
by two men. Her face seems uncomfortable
as if being asked something she did not
agree with.

As simple as my project may seem to some, I'm pretty excited to put it together. I realized that without our looks nothing is important about us. So for my final project I decided to flip the script and reverse the "roles" of men and women, using hollywood interviewing style as a guideline. As some may have noticed, in the media its rare when women are asked intellectual questions. If its not about what they are wearing, what products they use (to look like them) or what their workout routine is, then the rest is non-existent. Its rare that women get asked things that require more than a second thought or things that allow people to see their intellect and see how their minds truly work. All the questions asked revolve around vanity and sex. So for my final project I would like to switch up the interviewing processes that hollywood uses and flip them so that the women are answering questions that are usually given to the men and vice versa. 

An ad that displays a man and woman where the
 man is posed just like the woman and seems a bit
 off-putting. It shows how ridiculous it could be,
 though it has nothing to do with interviewing. 

My goal is to create a video that will feature about 5-10 men and women. In this video the men will be asked questions about their vanity, the products they use and if possible things about their personal lives (i.e.: are they single? nothing too personal or sexual). As for the women, they ill be asked questions about social issues, their recent discoveries etc. At the end of the interview I will ask the men how they felt about being questioned solely based on their looks as well as if they know that in the media women are portrayed as such. The women will be asked how they felt receiving questions that had nothing to do with their vanity. This first video will be my first step in setting up a flip the script series of my own. I would hope that in the near future I can work on a "Cat Calling" version where women are "Cat calling" men in the street and record their reactions. I will upload the video to both Vimeo and Youtube. 

I hope to spread awareness to the younger generations and of course our own about how women are treated in the media as a whole. My goal is to show how ridiculous the treatment that women get can be. I want to be able to display the idea that patriarchy can affect how both men and women are treated and how its the main reason why women get treated as objects instead of people. I want to be able to show people that there's no reason why women cannot be put on the same level as men, especially with something so simple as answering questions during a video. I want to be able to show that women are also capable of holding a conversation and have great ideas and things to say. It wills how that they can be more than just their looks.