Representations of Men and Women

In this video we see a clear representation of women through camera shots and angles.
There are cutaway shots of women in bikinis and we see a peep hole effect where the audience are teased with images of these women.



In this Madonna video it can be argued that she almost objectifies herself - controlling how much the men see at her show. However it can also be seen that she is empowering women through the fact that she is the dominant person controlling how much she allows them to see.

The Male Gaze Laura Mulvey

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Andrew Goodwin

Andrew Goodwin’s Theory

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Voyeurism

The idea of voyeurism is that the artist in the video will see an element of themself e.g, looking in a mirrior, hearing themselves on the radio (going from diegetic to non-diegetic) or on the TV etc. Lucky for our group, at the beginning of song there is the tuning of a radio. This therefore means we can add voyeurism through the radio.



Other examples...

 

Themes

As you've seen through my blogging, we have a keen idea to use masks - giving our artist no identity (and then doing the lip syncing via our green screen tops).
I put together a few pictures found on http://www.weheartit.com/ that may help inspire us.

Contacting Ed Banger Records...

Production Journal 09/09/11

This week we have finalised our song choice and gathered some potential footage we could prehaps use or maybe just experiment with. We are in the middle of editing it to The Killers - Human (Ocelet Remix) as this is a song that fits with our genre - so far it looks quite cool. Also, our own green screen material has arrived! Meaning we are now going to make some tops out of it and hopefully be able to use these in our video.

Calvin Harris - Feel So Close

I love this video! And it actually reminds me of Marina and The Diamonds - Radioactive which I blogged about earlier.

Its a fun video and uses bright colours to show this. Its also very summery and I love the locations!