Inspiration
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If I had to estimate, I would say I had watched every movie of High School Musical at least 8 times. I’ve watched the HSM YouTube edits more than a 100 times. I speak candidly when I say Sharpay Evans is my hero.
My earliest memories of watching HSM are from when I was just 8 years old. Upon arriving home from preschool I would run into the living room and beg my grandma to let me watch HSM instead of her melodramatic Bollywood movies. Of course, she would always cave in.
I would prance around the room and screech the lyrics of the infectious ‘Humuhumunukunukuapua'a’ song at the top of my lungs with the shimmering Christmas streamer wrapped around myself. Was it pink you may wonder? To my younger self’s disappointment it was not.
What fascinated me the most were her outfits. Sharpay served iconic looks for 3 years straight and she did with class. What with her dressing gowns adorned with glitter, faux collar and cuff to her personalised graduation cap and her Brown cord and white fur; she had me thinking that high school life was Paris Fashion Week.
While my 8 year old self admired her level of obsession with pink. My 18 year old self admires what she represents.
Growing up in Sharpay’s world of chaotic fashion, planted a seed in my brain at a crucial development stage, which in turn inclined me towards fashion and makeup. For every school play I had to wear eccentric makeup which made me stand out. I had to wear clothes that no one else wanted to. Fashion needs confidence to be who you are; to embrace yourself. And that’s exactly what inspired me to do a fashion magazine.
Codes and Conventions
However I couldn't let Sharpay Evans take the front seat and forget about the codes and conventions of a fashion magazine. Hence I did a short research before finalising the genre for my production.
[Presentation on genre research as a video.]
Learning outcome:
This activity helped understand the elements I would have to focus on and the amount of work required for each of the segments such as the shoot, editing, designing processes.
So in the words of Miss Evans herself:
“Does this look like a good outfit for changing history?”
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