Thursday 14 October 2010

Music Video Theory: Voyeurism

This idea comes from Sigmund Freud and has been used in media to explain the gendered pleasures or cinema.
Voyeurism refers to the idea of looking in order to gain sexual pleasure, for example it has been argued that the male viewers gaze can be captured by the objectified female body on display. Similarly in male dominated music videos they will use scantily clad females as their dancers to flatter the male star's ego.




Voyeurism can also be shown in music videos via characters watching performers on TV, webcam, CCTV etc within the narrative.




My Video:


I will be trying to incorporate voyeurism in my video as boys in bands are classed as voyeuristic to females watching. In particular I will front the lead singer as this is the generic member girls prefer to watch.

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