Portfolio work- Voyeurism.

In the lesson today we have started to look at the concept of Voyeurism. To start off with we watched a resent music video by 'Wiley ft. Ms D' called Heat Wave.

After watching the video we wrote as a class our thoughts and responses to the video. This is the results:-

We then went on to define Voyeurism and after looking at the definition on wikipedia we condensed it down into our own idea. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voyeurism.
Here is my definition:-
Voyeurism is the act of spying on someone doing sexual activities e.g undressing or wearing revelling clothing. In context to media examples like 'Big Brother' and 'The Only Way is Essex' are looking into other peoples lives in a voyeuristic way. Music videos take a much more older route with showing sexual activities and examples of the male gaze.

A useful quote for this topic:

'There is frequently reference to the notion of looking (mirrors, screens within screens, stages etc.) and particularly voyeuristic treatment of the female body'- Andrew Goodwin-Dancing in the Distraction Factory (1992).

In next weeks lesson we are going to go out and film examples of Voyeuristic camera shots and angles, so to start the process we have made a list of shots we could use:-

• Tilts up and down
• Pans of mid-drift
• Close-ups
• Peeking shots
• POV.