Problems faced over half term

Due to me being in centre parks throughout half term and my internet breaking down, there has been a distinct lack of blogging on my behalf, not only did i face the problem of my internet but we have had to postpone our filming til later next week due to the fact that one of the main characters (my little brother) has come down with chicken pox. However all of these problems will be resolved in due course.

this is our mini media project on web 2.0, web 2.0is about how you can now interact with the internet. there are a few different websites where you can do this. one of them i have used to create my own shoes, this website is nikeid.com you can chose different colours,styles and you can also put your name on the shoes etc and at the end you can buy them if you like them enough. you can also design differnt types of shoes and different items of clothing.

sam x

The music.

i have been looking for some theme music to put over the back of the advert. i have been looking on soundcloud both me and robyn have been looking but havent found anything that will go with our type of advert. we have looked at other viedos such as snow patrol's you could be happy music video and thought that the aminamtions go well with the type of music. we have also looked at the land rover advert that is in stop motion, the music that is played in the background is effective. we are hoping to find something that fits with type of feel that we are hoping to achive.

sam x

Male Gaze

We looked at the male gaze during 'theory tuesday' with Mr Smith it was actually really interesting and so very true in many ways!!

Basically the male gaze is the way men see women!
 so its how men look at women, how women look at themselves and how women look at other women and this is shown throught the camera shots. the camera lingers on the curves of the female body and event which occurs to women are presented largely in the context of a man's reaction to these events.

Relegates woman to the status of objectives. the female viewer must experince the narrative secondarily, by undertification with the male.

To show how the male gaze worked, as a bit of an experiment we looked at the scouting for girls video-she's so lovely >>



After watching the video we were asked to answer the following:

what colour top where she and he wearing?
What number bowling lane where they using?
Wahat colour belt where she and he wearing?
What colour shoes where she and he wearing?
What colour eyes did she and he have?

The majority of the boys in the class wouldn't have been able to answer any of the questions as they would have just been focusing on the females assets where as the the majority of the girls in the class would have been able to answer the questions as they wouldn't have been focusing on the female assets. This is what the males gaze is about looking at the way in which men perseeve and look at women, so they wouldn't include a fat ugly women in the video because men wouldn't be interested.

Theorys:
Criticism of mulvey and gaze theory- Some women enjoy being looked at e.g beauty pageants!
The gaze can also be directed towards members of the smae gender for several reasons, not all of which are sexual, such as in comparison of body image or clothing.

Jonathoan Schroeder (1998)- To gaze implies more than to look at- it signifies a phsycological relationship of power, in which the gazer is superior to the object of the gaze.

Robyn x