Within this unit Ben and I worked together a short film based around Laura Mulvey's theory of the male gaze. Mouldy's theory being that when viewing a text, the audience is put in a position of viewing a woman in the eyes of a heterosexual male, and that from there point of view are seeing women as objects. So, based around this theory Ben and I came up with a storyboard and plan to apply this theory to our film. We did this by thinking about the many ways women get sexualised by doing things that men do. For example; Megan Fox in Transformers knowing a lot about cars, not a stereotypical female trait. Lara Croft, in Lara Croft being an adventurer and fighting, again not a typical female trait. We came to a conclusion, we both have pass codes to the gym we could film in there. I know the manager just through chatting around the gym so when I asked her if we could film within the gym she said it was fine as long as we weren't shooting in peak time (people don't like to be on camera whilst in the gym or at all). As in real life women are majorly sexualised within the gym our narrative was achieved by putting our female in a real life situation. We decided the best way to put out final edit together was to loosely film it as a workout video.
I took on the role as the protagonist doing various exercises and routines throughout my week with my 'personal trainer' (my boyfriend). Ben played the part in being my 'stalker' by seemingly taking photographs and videos of me working out. Having both Ben and Kieran meant we could various shots from around the gym. From Kieran's point of view we got real close up to my body in a way of which it will serve the audience visual pleasure. For these shots we used a hand held camera to make it seem more real and this way it felt like a better result from the heterosexual males point of view.
Ben took on the role of recording most the video as being the 'stalker' he had most of the shots to shoot, however when Ben and I both needed to be in shot we asked Kieran to take on the role of videographer.
Whilst filming most of our video in a public location it made it difficult for us to record and not get anyone within the shot. We couldn't get many people within the shot because many people wither don't like being on camera or they don't like being filmed whilst working out. (and obviously this is completely understandable). With this complication it made it a lot harder for us to film which means it affected out filming. It affected our filming because we would have a really good shot idea or already in place but then someone would move or come into shot, therefore we moved the camera out of curtsy. Although we accounted this by re shooting some of our footage on different days or just changing the shot completely.
Lighting became an issue with filming as the light levels in the gym remained the same however, if we had a window in the background of a shot it would seem overexposed, although we couldn't do much about this problem, again sometimes we changed angles.
Another problem that occurred, which we overcome was the lighting waves within the white background of our footage. As we couldn't do much about this problem I did some research of what it is. I soon found out that on old camera and video cameras you would get the waves within the background too. This then became a part of our video because it made it more realistic that 'stalker' Ben was watching and recording me workout.
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