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This music video by the band Kodaline features a character who is rejected from society due to his apearance and disfigurement. He is known as a 'freak', and become angry and frustrated due to his isolation. This story line is very similar to the case study of the Elephant Man, as it presents the struggles that the man has to deal with in his every day life due to the way he looks.

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POTENTIAL CASE STUDY//CROSS DRESSER - TRANSGENDER 

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POTENTIAL CASE STUDY//CROSS DRESSER - TRANSGENDER 

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I would like to base my music video on a character who is neglected from society, and feels isolated. After the recent stories in the media of transgender men and women, like Catlin Jenner, I feel that I could possibly make a video based on a cross dresser. Through out the past most men cross dresser men have been persecuted. They are seen as strange or abnormal, just like those who are disfigured. They are seen as social rejects as they do not conform to the typical conventions of a man. Is it strange to see a man wearing make up? Is it strange to see a man dressed in drag?

In the media today, there are plenty of cross dressing men and women, who are still looked upon as strange or different.

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STRANGE FIGURES THROUGH HISTORY: THE ELEPHANT MAN

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STRANGE FIGURES THROUGH HISTORY: THE ELEPHANT MAN

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It could be possible to create a character who is suffering from a mental illness. In society those with mental illnesses are rejected because they act in a certain way which is not considered as normal. Those who are disfigured or look in a certain way may attract public attention. Joseph Carey Merrick (5 August 1862 – 11 April 1890), sometimes incorrectly referred to as John Merrick, was an Englishman with severe deformities who was exhibited as a human curiosity named the Elephant Man. He became well known in London society after he went to live at the London Hospital. Members of society feared Merrick's appearance and he was usually neglected form society. When Merrick moved from his work house to start a new career through the world of human novelty exhibitions. The showmen named Merrick the Elephant Man, and advertised him as "Half-a-Man and Half-an-Elephant". This suggests ho people who are slightly different within society are rejected and isolated.

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Depression is a state of low mood and aversion to activity that can affect a person's thoughts, behavior, feelings and sense of well- being. People with depressed mood can feel sad, empty, hopeless, helpless, guilty, irritable or ashamed. They may lose interest in activities that were once pleasurable, experience loss of appetite or overeating, have problems concentrating, remembering details or making decisions, and may contemplate, attempt or commit suicide. In response to those who sug#ffer from depression detach themselves from society and everyone who experiences happiness is then strange to them. Society tends to label those suffering from depression as, 'strange', as they can not relate or feel empathy. Society usually labels those suffering as 'strange' or 'weird', as people who experience depressed feelings and thoughts. The lyrics of the track I am using suggest the feeling of separation from society, 'faces seem wicked when your unwanted', suggesting that the mundane members of society are seen as unfair to the strange. I have decided that my character will suffer from depression however I would like to have a deeper meaning and story behind the characters depression.

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For my music video i will be focusing on a character who is a social reject to society, who is seen as a stranger to the rest of society. I will be researching certain aspects of social rejects and what is strange to different people. The first thing that comes to mind when thinking about socially rejected individuals is the acts of deviance or delinquency. For example, those who are on drugs, drunks and alcoholics may be rejected from society due to their bad behaviour and abnormality. Social rejects are rejected from the normality and may detach themselves from relationships therefore feeling depressed and lonely. In my video i would like to present a feeling of solitude through the main protagonist.