Analysis of video for the Beyonce song 1+1
Throughout this video there are several scenes associated with sex, orgasms and intimacy.
Within the first 10 seconds we are presented with Beyonce. She is seen to be wearing no clothing, or very little which we cannot see and appears to be wet. Her hair is a little messy which put together with the absence of clothing and wet skin we connote this with sex and pleasure.
About 19 seconds in we see that Beyonce begins to turn to face the camera, looking down the lens at us the audience and essentially 'breaking the fourth wall' to show that it is all just a fantasy and that she is fantasying over a parter/lover.
She begins to tilt her head upwards to expose her bare chest. Her mouth is slightly parted and her chin is tilted which again leads us back to the connotations of pleasure, sex and even orgasms.
We are presented with a close up shot of her face after about 25 seconds which shows that the scene is intimate and she wants us to see how she is feeling and possibly feel it ourselves. Her eyes are very enticing in this shot which we refer to as a characteristic of the 'invitational' look.
After 30 seconds the camera begins to move slowly down Beyonce's body to again, show that she is bare. This allows the lighting to shine upon her wet skin so we are again reminded of the connotations and assumptions we make that are sex related.
44 seconds in we are presented with Beyonce tilting her head backwards again which we connote with orgasms and pleasure.
Just before the 1 minute mark we see a first glimpse of her clothing. It seems to be some sort of night garment or lingerie, made of either silk of lace which we connote with sexiness. She tilts her head back slightly again and we see that her lips are parted and that she is almost smiling.
Again we are given a close up of her eyes to remind us that it is intimate and imaginary.
About 10 seconds into the 1 minute mark we see Bey take of her straps from her shoulders while she tilts her head backwards. Throughout the video she is presented as wet and in this particular scene we most defiantly connote that wet look with sweat as she looks incredibly sexual and almost orgasmic, again her mouth is parted and her eyes are closed. It is both invitational and sexual.
After about a minute and 15 seconds we see Beyonce once again tilt her head backwards, we are presented with no visible clothing and her groping herself moving from her neck down to her chest. We see this as suggestive and invitational as her lips are parted and she elongates her blinks.
Movements like this are repeated all the way up to the 2 minute mark where we see Bey in leopard print lingerie and black stockings with heels. We connote stockings and heels with sexiness which supports the ideas that this scene is sexual. She is represented as sexy and is most defiantly invitational by the way she stands with one leg opened out to the side. We see that the lingerie puts emphasis on her figure. She continuously looks down the lens (breaking the fourth wall) to remind us that this is all a fantasy of hers and that it isn't real.
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At the 2 min 44 second stage we are introduced to a male. We don't see his face only the back of him, this gives the element of mystery and we assume that this is her lover, the person she has been fantasying about. They engage in physical contact and the light shines on the males body to show that he looks wet, like beyonce does. We can then justify the connotations to sex and pleasure as they are both wet and we come to the conclusion that it is sweat.
Just before the 3 minute mark we are shown beyonce being lifted up. She starts bent over backwards with her head tilted toward the floor with the male holding her back and lifting her up. The camera moves upwards from the feet to the head as this movement takes place to emphasise her body.
At the 3 minute mark we are presented with skin on skin contact where, again where we see no visible clothing and sweaty bodies groping each other, we associate this with orgasms, pleasure and sexual contact.
At about 3 mins 15 we are again shown a close up of Beyonce's eyes to re-enforce the idea of fantasy and to remind us that it is not real.
She continues to run her fingers through her hair and tilts her head back several times toward the end of the video and we are show another shot of her and the male addition. Her mouth is parted at all times and her eyes remain closed throughout, leaving us to connote what we see with sex, pleasure and orgasms.
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