Voyeurism

The male gaze

Sean Kingston- beat it


In the beginning of the music video, we are shown straight away the girls legs and body and the way the camera is showing us is by zooming in on the legs and moving the camera sort of up the girls leg and this represents the mans eyes looking up from the legs. From what I know most guys look at the girls legs first and this is representing it in that way. There is also a shot in the video where the camera focuses on one of the women's butt. They use the effect to make the background blurry and only make the girls booty look sharp. This shows that the male only looks at the girls bum and making it almost, so that the camera is the male persons eyes and is looking at her from the down angle. This is also a sign for the male gaze because boys tend to look at girls bums too. When we are shown a woman coming out from the pool, the camera first does a short shot of her side body and her side face first and then cuts to show a medium shot of her fall body coming out of the pool. This shows that the man looking up her body as she comes up from the pool. Also when we are shown the medium long shot of the woman together, they are all showing skin. A lot of it as well actually. Through out the whole video all the woman are showing skin either on the top or the bottom or even both. This also tells us that male people do look at woman in a certain way and this is how they represent woman to show that they are sexy and beautiful. The camera is always acting throughout the whole music video, as its actually a male person who is looking at the women. There's also a part where the camera tilts down on the woman's body and that's the view from a mans point. When the camera does close ups of the woman's faces, it shows how the male also looks at the woman's face. The camera again here acts like that it's a male person looking at the girl. Also when we are shown a overview shot of the woman lying down, it kind of seems like that's how the men see the woman when they are in bed with them. This is shown by the use of the panning of the camera slowly panning across the woman. This can also show that the man looks down on the woman and the man is more dominant. Shows a bit of the stereotype between men and woman.