Website Background Trial Idea

The idea:

As our piece was based upon a body shaming idea, as a group we decided that the website background had to reflect this and I came up with the idea of having a body with several sections such as the face, below the neck to waist, waist to part of the legs and the legs, that had images changing all representing the idea of what is considered the ideal body by teens.  The media also helped with this in regards to them constantly publicising these types of images.

The images:

The images were all found on google under several different titles such as 'the ideal body' or 'thigh gap' etc.  the images we used were based on a set of criteria that we found online conforming to the super skinny ideal body type.  The criteria is as listed below from http://www.harpersbazaar.com/beauty/diet-fitness/a11239/the-new-body-ideal/:

• According to Dr. Stephen J. Greenberg, a top plastic surgeon currently starring on Bravo's Secrets and Wives, the answer seems to point toward yes.

• "Women are asking for larger, but more natural-looking breasts as well as enhanced buttocks, rounder hips and slimmer thighs," he says, adding that requests for Kardashian-esque butts are at an all-time high and that while some women may be born with a thigh gap, most require inner thigh laser lipo to remove exercise-resistant fat. 

• "Using liposuction to shrink certain areas and liposuction combined with fat transfers to enhance others is definitely the new trend. 

• " As for waist trainers, they're likely not the reason celebrity waists are becoming more whittled than ever: "It's unrealistic to expect that these devices can fundamentally change body shape," says plastic surgeon Dr. David Hidalgo. 

• Plus, "there are potentially damaging physiologic consequences, including restricted breathing from interference with normal movement of the diaphragm, pooling of blood in the legs which could encourage clots to form and interference with function of the gastrointestinal tract." 

• This cartoon-like hourglass figure (Jessica Rabbit certainly comes to mind) that is topping our feeds, covering glossy fashion magazines and changing the way we look at our own bodies in the mirror is about as unrealistic to achieve naturally as Kim Kardashian's reality show. 

The Images from google:

The picture below shows how they were layered up in the order that they would appear on the screen when joined with the fly in and out transitions as found on PowerPoint.  Although Powerpoint is not the ideal programme to use, it provided us with an idea of how it would potentially look on the website. 

The layering up of the images in Powerpoint to show the order in which they go in

The images below are all the images found on google that I used within the trial run of the website background.  Although the removal of the background led to it not being fully removed or pieces being removed that shouldn't be, again it was just to provide an idea of what it would look like.

All the images used within the trial piece

The Trial run

Evaluation

The idea of creating a background like this represents our idea of body shaming really well as it continually creates what is assumed to be the ideal or perfect female body and highlights the negativity surrounding the images.

However the cropping of the images is done poorly to the point where some of the body parts needed have been cropped too much or changed so that they have parts missing or they look oddly shaped.