Beyonce - If I Were A Boy Music Video - Mise En Scene

In this post I am going to be breaking the Beyonce music video 'if i were a boy' down by using Mise En Scene

Beyonce - If I Were A Boy

The Genre of this music video/song by Beyonce is pop. 

In the Beyonce music video 'If I Were A Boy', the editor used many locations to show where the average male would spend his day. Such as: police station, police car, locker room, gun studio, bar, night club, restaurant and at home. They use the police station because Beyonce was playing the role of her boyfriend who worked as a police man. Without all of these settings, the video would be hard to understand.

Beyonce used many props within the music video, such as: gun, alcohol and a police car. They matched the props to the locations to bring the music video together. 

The lighting and colour of this video was black and white. They used black and white to show Beyonce's feelings throughout the video. 

Throughout the music video, Beyonce uses many face expressions mixed with many different types of body language. Some of these were: crying to show she was hurt, smirking to show she was flirting and laughing to show she was happy.

Beyonce played the role of her boyfriend in the music video to show her understanding of what men do and how it can hurt a girl. Her boyfriend played the part of the girlfriend so that he could see what it feels like when he acts the way he normally acts. This is shown by the positioning of the characters and the boyfriend was standing alone in the corner watching his girlfriend flirt. This showed that he was hurt by what she was doing and that he needed to changed the way he acted. 

Beyonce was using many different costumes in the music video. These were, smartly dressed as a woman in the kitchen, police uniform when she went to work, underwear while she was getting changed after work and casual clothes while at the bar. The director used different costumes to make the music video smooth by having the costume fit the right setting.