Laura Mulvey - Theorist

Although the majority of male directors make males the subjects and females the object, and female directors make females the subjects and males the objects, within our music video we have stuck with Laura Mulvey's theory of 'the male gaze' and have made the active male/passive female relationship with the two characters within the narrative part of our music video. Jack, as our main male protagonist within our music 'controls the events with the active power of the erotic look'.

Jack is presented as an active and controlling subject, and he treats me (as the lead female within the narrative) as a passive object of desire. However, Jack sees me in a sexual way/in a desiring way, while the audience don't, but they can see his reaction to me.

The band are a stereotypical band as they are loved and chased by females, which is seen in the performance part of the music video, but the narrative shows how Jack isn't interested in anyone but me, while I'm not interested - thus breaking the conventions of a stereotypical music video for a band. The boys in the video for the narrative do all the looking, while i am there to be looked at. However, in the performance part of the music video the women in the audience of the bands performance do all the looking, while the boys in the band are just there to be looked at.

While the band are looked at by girls, throughout the music video they aren't seen as sex object, instead they are more about the music.