Laura Mulvey came up with the theory of the 'male gaze', referring to the way that visual arts are created and structured with the male viewer in mind, usually by sexualising female characters. Despite the fact that males between 15 and 25 are a key part of our demographic, there are many reasons why this theory cannot be applied to our film.
Males are only half of our demographic as we hope that females will enjoy the film just as much. Therefore, even if we assumed that all males would be interested in females, and all females would be interested in males, we wouldn't want to tailor something that could be seen as a main element of our film to just half our demographic. Therefore we have made an effort to not unnecessarily sexualise any characters in our film. This decision was emphasised by our group's mutual hatred of oversexualisation of women in the media, believing that how a woman is represented should be her own choice, not the choice of those that will be looking at her.
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