![]() ![]() This is seen as an orthodox male proffession becuase it requires strong, powerful and forceful characters that are seen as protecters, who must also be emotionally unattached from their job, and has challenged the conventions of gender representation in music videos where it is usually the male in a leading role and the woman in a position where she is being protrayed as helpless or objectified by switching the conventional gender representations and making the woman as the leading charcter with an authoritative role and the man in a helpless and slightly more passive role. She has done this by taking the stereotypical male role in a relationship, in this case a hard working instrumental job such as a policeman. Through the narrative beyonce is expressing feelings of disatisfaction and sadness towards the gender roles that men and women play in relationships set by the genral standards of society, that has affected her own relationship. The woman is wearing white, white connotes innocence and purity, which is why the colour was chosen because the woman is ultimately the victim in the narrative ![]() Black connotes authority and power and also makes the person wearing it seemaloof or evil, this colour choice is used because the man is supposed to be seen as a villian since the narrative is based around men wronging women who their in a relationship with and having double standards for women. ![]() The mid shot of both male and female characters in this scene reveal that the male is wearing a black wife beater while the woman is wearing a white one. The lack of diegetic sound captures the audiences interest in what they are saying and introduces the concept of the narrative. This is being done while a lack of diegetic sound is being played, therefore you can hear solely the characters voices. Genre: Ballad – a ballad is a tragic love song usuallly written by someone to convey feelings of sorrow, regret, anger, dispair, sadness or disatisfaction to the person they are romantically involved with. In the beginning of Beyonce’s song ‘If I were a boy’ the words “honesty”, “intimacy”, “commitment”, “you” and “me” are said by the two main characters of the narrative. ![]()
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