Male Gaze is a media theory that shows how the audience view the characters presented in the music video. For example, in our video it will be how the audience view the relationship between the singer and the girl and also how they view the girl character when travelling around.
The lyrics "You come and go" could be implying different things:
1. The girl is loving and leaving the boy (artist) all the time
2. As she is being filmed cycling everywhere, she is going to different places
The relationship between the two characters is made clear by the order that we put our shots in. For example, "I don't know what I'm doing but I know what I want" is a shot of the artist singing and then the girl is shown laughing on the word "want". This suggests that the artist is singing about a girl that he wants and loves.
In the majority of the shots, the artist is shown in a recording booth singing; which makes it clear that he is the main focus of the video and is singing about how he feels about their relationship. A lot of the time the girl is shown in shots by herself which could suggest she is feeling lost and 'coming and going'.
We have mainly been inspired by Ben Howard's "Only Love" video as it features a montage of the many places he has been to, as well as close ups of him and switches between him and images of him performing on stage. This suggests that he has a strong relationship between him and his fans and has included them in the appropriately named "Only Love".
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