Beyonce's - Broken Hearted

This a performace based video with a few quick flashbacks, however as we don't know what really has happened i'd say its more performance based. Beyonce is the only person that is regularly shown in the video, some may say this is done to show her emotions other may say as she is the only one in the video it is unclear to what has happened and hard for the audience to get involved as they are unaware as to why she is upset.

The opneing scene is of a car approaching a car park and then a scene of Beyonce wiping her tears, this is the first sign that we get that Beyonce is upset. It then leads to a flashback, a happy moment of her and her partner, this could signify she is missing her partner and the happy moments between her and her him.

We then also discover the reason she has arrived to the beach or sme could say the reason the video was set in a beach, as it's trying to portray that the spot Beyonce and her partner were always at and had there 'special moments' at was the beach. As the song goes on we see many of them being happy at the beach.

There are various close-ups of Beyonce's face, as this is an emotional song there's bound to be a lot of close-ups to show how hurt/in love the performer is. At 1 minute 20 seconds of the video, it zooms into Beyonce's face whilst she is singing the words, 'I know that i love you' and she stops singing because shes's about to start crying, this could mean that she does love her partner a lot - she's not denying it however, she stops singing and is about to start crying this can signify he also hurts her.

The first half of the song the lyrics are of her being upset and the video s in black and white, this could signify she is hurt so there's no colour as colour usually connotes happiness also the blacka nd white could represent that it is the past. When Beyonce turns happy the video turns into colour, this could mean this is how she feels now, also by the video turning into colour it could mean the audience can tell she is now happy.

Also some could say females are sterotypically represented in the video/song. Beyonce sings ''But I don't complain cause I been afraid that yoou would walk away'' and at that point in the video she is in the arms of her lover- some could interpret that she means she's afraid that the male is going to leaveher is she tells him how she really feels, therefore she doesn't tell him how she actually feels and hides it from him- she's also seen in the arms the male which could signify she needs protection and doesn't want to be alone, to some extent this could mean he controls what she says and that he dominates her.

When the video turns into colour you see the video rewinding and Beyonce putting together a rose she preiously pulled apart and singing, 'no broken- hearted girl' this could mean she's putting together the rose- so everything is okay, eveyrthing is gonna fixed and she's no longer unhappy, at this point in the video it zooms into her face and she is smiling.

At the begining of the video/ lyrics made the audience believe that whilst being in a relationship with the male she loves she is unhappy- a 'broken-hearted girl' however, towards the end of the video it reveals she doesn't want to lose to male and she'll actually be unhappy- a 'broken- hearted girl' is she loses the male, the lyrics support this view as it says '' I don't wanna be without my baby, I don't want a broken heart.'

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0csLlzdhAPk