The Gaze.

Laura Mulvey believed there are many different types of gaze that could be used by the director for effect in the shot. These consisted of:

• the spectators gaze (a commonly used angles that uses the audience to be there in the scene and experience it)
• the intra-diegetic gaze (one character looking at another character)
• the direct address (extra-diegetic, looking at you)
• the look of the camera (showing the scene as if it was being filmed in the scene)
• the gaze of the bystander (showing the scene through the eyes of some one else in the scene who isnt a focal point)
• the gaze of an audience within a text (looking at an audience watching the action)

This shows how the camera type and angle can be used in many different way as the director sees fit. The spectators gaze will be included in my work as it is a fairly basic but effective angle of shot that allows the audience to be part of the action. I may incorporate the intra-dietic gaze in my film to show the world through my characters perspective. This will be useful as it will help my audience identify with my characters situation and enviroment through his own eyes.
The direct address is a very surreal concept were by my character would address the audience directly. I will not be using this as i still would like to keep an element of realism to my film as it will allow the audience to identify and understand him more like this. The gaze of the bystander is another gaze that could be applied to my work but i wont use it as i believe it would take the attention away from my main characeter and his perspective and that is what i am trying to portray.