Videos of my SketchUp model I've been working on over the weekend:
Below is the final story to be read over the top of the video playing:
80%
off all designer brands! Opens at 9am!
8:15
am: There’s a mad rush to the small pop-up store downtown. Queues are backed up
to the corner of the street. The line of people
is buzzing, with excitement in the air. A tall, well-put-together woman, stands
at the front of the line, eye-balling anyone who dares step in front of her.
Behind her, is her spoilt son aged 8. The mother
is a hard-working lady, with a full-time job, she often doesn't have much time
for her child, but makes up for this with gifts of expensive designer
clothing and spending money for the weekends. However, this will affect him in the future more than she realises.
9:01am:
She's impatiently waiting for the store to open, when a woman on the inside
steps forward to unlock the doors. As soon as they open, the mother strides
forward with her son in tow. She reaches the nearest rack of clothes and
starts filing through them.
"No.
No. No... Ah yes this would be great for me."
She
keeps going, pulling t-shirts, shorts, skirts, dresses off the rack and
throwing them at the hands of her child.
"Right,
go try on those while I try on these then we will meet back at the next rack."
She
walks promptly to the changing rooms and shuts the door. As she turns, she
notices something scrawled across the changing room mirror,
"Clothes
for $4 are too expensive for me” (RT Documentary, 2016)
"Clothes
for $4 are too expensive for me.”
She
thinks that this seems a bit odd, but continues to try on clothes, ignoring the
price tags completely. As she walks out to take the chosen garments to the
counter to hold, she notices a young boy behind the counter sewing fast at a
machine. As she reaches into her bag to find her purse she hears the salesman
whisper harshly to the boy,
"Hurry
up with those, will you? We need another 30 shirts done by the end of the day. So
no breaks for you!"
"Hey!
He's only a child! He shouldn't even be working let only not getting breaks,
how dare you speak to him like that?" the mother shouted.
The
salesman smiles then passes the woman a booklet, that explains that this isn't
a real pop-up store, but really it is an educational exhibition that is showing
people the importance of buying sustainable and ethical clothing. She is
shocked that she didn’t realise. She looks down at the tags on the clothes.
They all have quotes from factory workers on them describing their day to day
lives and how they wish they could be treated fairly. He then points in the
direction of a curtain to the left. This room provides chairs to sit on so
people can watch a short film that explains the importance of buying ethically
and sustainably. It then invites watchers to fill out a survey on how they
found the experience so it can be used to further improve any future exhibitions
around the city.
