I’d say that the most difficult part of this entire assignment was putting together the actual video. Ultimately I played around with the settings more and cut down the video even shorter. Accidentally cutting out those parts made it about six to seven minutes.
However, this ended up working in my favour since my original video was about eight minutes long.
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Plenty of times I ended up cutting out clips that I needed, only because I was learning how to use the program. The program that I used for the creation of the final video was iMovie, and since I had never used it before it took a bit of time before I learned the settings. However, I enjoyed working with my topic and realized that if I had to put in extra effort I was willing to do so. Many times throughout the construction of this video I felt like giving up and focusing on only two songs – one from an older era of Bollywood and one from a newer era. The most onerous part of this entire project was cutting my video clips and figuring out which parts of the song to show and talk about in the context of this project. I had already figured out which songs I wanted to work with, so collecting those videos wasn’t the difficult part.
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Here is a link to the project that I’ve posted on YouTube:įrom the beginning of this project, I knew that it would be presented as a video essay since that was the only way to clearly articulate my thoughts regarding a series of item songs that are presented in Bollywood. In my video essay, I focused on four main aspects facial expressions, clothing, lyrics and camera angles.
This way I made sure that there was a gap between each, in order to see the way the songs had really evolved. The first song was from the year 1972, the second one from 1998, the third from 2005 and the last from 2012. I approached this project by choosing four different item songs that were popular from various eras in Bollywood. My research question for this project was to try and question how the male gaze manifests itself in South Asian society and how this has impacted the way item songs have evolved over time, into something sexual that are now being used to promote films and keep audiences entertained. A song that was separate from the plot and story line, in order to keep audiences entertained. My video essay incorporates items songs that were released before this became the definition, which meant that older movies were using them as fillers during a movie.
However, this is what the current definition of an item song is.
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It’s a marketing tool that’s used to get people talking about the movie before it’s released in theatres. An item song, by definition “are big budget song and dance numbers” that often feature a popular heroine and are released in order to generate buzz surrounding the release of a film. The objectification of women and the blatant sexism present in Bollywood movies is what sparked my interest to create a video essay exploring this idea, specifically focusing on item songs. Bollywood, which is the most popular film industry in India, is notorious for treating women as objects. The final project exhibited here is a video essay about the male gaze and the way that it manifests itself in Bollywood.
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