The male gaze is a concept by feminist film critic Laura Mulvey. It refers to the way visual arts are structured around a male viewer. It describes the tendency in visual culture to depict the world and women from a male point of view and in terms of men's attitudes (as mentioned on the video).
The male gaze theory illustrates how we live in a patriarchal society and that men are more dominant and are seen as more 'active' in comparison to women who are seen as 'passive'.
In our music video we have decided to contradict the male gaze theory. The fact that the male characters outnumber the female characters in modern media text, we have decided that there would be little to no male characters in our music video to empower women.
The two distinct mode of male gaze is voyeuristic and fetishistic. Mulvey argue that women where given two characters types a sexually active female character and a powerless women.however in our music video the female characters would be portrayed as being very powerful.
In our video we will be aware of how we shoot our female characters. We will not do close-up body shots like this:
Nor this ...
We will have more close-ups of their faces rather than their bodies.
We will also make sure that the female characters aren't explicit with their costume.
Does this relate to your video project in anyway ?
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