Beyonce 1+1

This song is about Beyonce wanting a male person to take control of her, this is shown in the video when a man comes and grasps her. This is showing the audience that she wants to be dominated. This is also shown in the video because she wears a lot of clothes that are very revealing which shows that she wants to have sex with a male. Lots of the lyrics are saying that she wants a man to have sex with her.

 

There is an extreme close up on her face which shows her tears, this may mean that she is upset by not getting what she wants from the man but she can’t do anything about it because the man is the controller of the relationship.

The facial expressions are very similar; they are the male gaze facial expressions. Examples of these are the invitational facial expression this is used more if you are going to be a mischievous person or going to do something mysterious. Another one of the facial expressions that she uses is the romantic or sexual facial expression, which is showing that she may be available for sexual action these facial expressions are from the Marjorie Ferguson idea of facial expressions.

When the two of them are hugging there is a mixture of shots, one of them is an over the shoulder shot which shows her singing but also being caressed by the male. There are also a few close up shots of just Beyoncé’s face and shoulders. This is showing her emotion in the section of the video which is kind of happy but also rather sad at some points, she is being very sexually available.