The TABOOB
Brief: Create an artefact that successfully communicates the subject and content of your dissertation. Dissertation title: To what extent have attitudes towards female body image been challenged and successfully overcome? Outcome: A newspaper (‘The TABOOB’) Set out to challenge and normalise any pre-existing negative attitudes towards female body image. Photoshoot: Using Balloons to illustrate body image. Using balloons as a way of illustrating all themes discussed throughout the dissertation (themes such as normalising fat, the female body and breaking down any stigmas or embarrassment towards intimate body parts, like breasts and vaginas). The significance of balloons is they are associated with fun and lighthearted occasions, with false ‘fleshy’ tones to over exaggerate the illustrate areas, when placed on a body. Using balloons as a way of illustrating all themes discussed throughout the dissertation (themes such as normalising fat, the female body and breaking down any stigmas or embarrassment towards intimate body parts, like breasts and vaginas). The significance of balloons is they are associated with fun and lighthearted occasions, with false ‘fleshy’ tones to over exaggerate the illustrate areas, when placed on a body. Newspaper headlines: Throughout the paper key quotes have been pulled from the dissertation ,acting as subheadings find in an ordinary newspaper. Such quotations have been key to both the visual and contextual development. Each have the intension of creating an emotion impact, by discussing ideas such as the correlation between being ‘fat’ and brave. The initial idea of creating a newspaper out of the dissertation was the to challenge challenge any preexisting attitudes towards female body issues and areas of taboo issues which surround the topic. Typically newspaper readers are of an older generation where such negative attitudes can be found. The salmon coloured newsprint was chosen to not only mimic flesh tones, but also stand next to traditional papers such as the Finical Times.