Podcast
Script
As young kids, we all played with dolls. We used our imagination to create a little world for them. Usually, for us girls it would be the stay-at-home mom and wife waiting for her husband to get home from work. A world that just came so naturally to us. And never really questioning those roles until a much older age.
Laurie Simmons has been one of the many that has questioned those roles. Using dolls, they can easily stand for standard female gender roles. Like the mother, the wife, the homemaker, the chef, and even the maid. She questions those stereotypes that are seen in our American culture. Simmons creates these amazing dolls scenes of women in kitchen cooking and cleaning. It just makes the viewers think about the roles in society, and how we women are being represented.
We are not the same women from the 1950s. We are changing each decade. We are changing because we know how unfair it is. As women, we can do the exact same job a man can do. We just want to have the same respect men get without being called names. There should be no difference between men and women because we are all equal.
As young kids, we all played with dolls. We used our imagination to create a little world for them. Usually, for us girls it would be the stay-at-home mom and wife waiting for her husband to get home from work. A world that just came so naturally to us. And never really questioning those roles until a much older age.
Laurie Simmons has been one of the many that has questioned those roles. Using dolls, they can easily stand for standard female gender roles. Like the mother, the wife, the homemaker, the chef, and even the maid. She questions those stereotypes that are seen in our American culture. Simmons creates these amazing dolls scenes of women in kitchen cooking and cleaning. It just makes the viewers think about the roles in society, and how we women are being represented.
We are not the same women from the 1950s. We are changing each decade. We are changing because we know how unfair it is. As women, we can do the exact same job a man can do. We just want to have the same respect men get without being called names. There should be no difference between men and women because we are all equal.
Reflection
For my podcast, I used Audacity and iMovie. I've never used any of these platforms before, so I was really nervous. I am honestly the person who is horrible with computers and needs step-by-step instructions on what to do. After I watched the videos on what to do and played around with it for while, I was getting the hang of it. I did take like an hour on iMovie because the credits kept on messing up, but I learned the process on how to do it for next time. I'm definitely not a pro at either, but it was nice to see that I can do some technology stuff. I think if you don't overthink either of these apps, then it will be easy for you.
My favorite thing about the whole podcast project was writing the script and then matching the images to the script in the video. I want people to feel something when looking at the images, I think the music helps with that aspect. I just wanted to go with a different approach when talking about an artist like Laurie Simmons.
Laurie Simmons is an artist that I have heard of once before, but never really looked at her work closely. I honestly appreciate her artwork because just by looking at it, it strikes a feeling. My first reaction was upset/mad because the female dolls were in the kitchen and some of them just look to be worn-out with cooking, cleaning, overall being a housewife. Seeing the dolls like that just went along with that one saying about women are supposed to be in the kitchen. I knew that the real meaning behind her artwork had to do with why I was feeling that way. She has said before that her art is open to interpretation, but it is also about the viewers being able to explore and think deeper about gender and life. Therefore, I really wanted to focus on the doll series she did because I think everyone can relate to it in someway, especially in our society today.