The idea of voyeurism comes from the neurologist Sigmund Freud and it originally refers to erotic pleasure gained by looking at a sexual object. There are many types of voyeurism such as intra-intra-diegetic gaze, this is when the person depicted watches themselves. Jhene Aiko's music video for 'Mirrors' is an example of intra-intra-diegetic gaze because the artist looks at her self in the mirror during the video and towards the end of it she looks down at herself in a broken mirror to symbolise her brokenness and perhaps confusion with who she really is. I thought this music video is really powerful in terms of using the iconography of the mirror and how that represents the person being depicted, this could be an idea my group uses in our video.
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