Once I gather enough information from my interview, I started to look into issues around our surroundings in aspect such as social, cultural and political that my story could be connected to. The interview inspired 2 potential topics that I am interested for my photonovel.
1. Social Anxiety
The first topic is regarding mental health which is “social anxiety”. This is because, during the interview she mentioned that one of the reasons she hates horror is because she is an anxious person. Besides, she also mentioned that aesthetic of gore could be used as a self-expression. Moreover, the things we experience in a horror film such as tension, nervousness is similar to the effect of anxiety.
2. Plastic surgery
The second topic is on “Plastic surgery”. This is because, the process of plastic surgery is actually very gory, but many people nowadays tend to still do it just for the sake of the aesthetic. (Harris, 2016) Besides, the first thing that came in my mind when I thought of “Plastic surgery” is celebrities. Therefore, it makes me think of how our beauty standard had managed to transform something so gory into something so common or glorified. Which I find pretty similar to my interviewee perception, same thing but due to the way it is presented we have different perception and view point.
After discussing both my idea with Ms Vinsze, I end up choosing the second topic as it is much more interesting.
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