- MES of police car with Beyonce sitting on top of it symbolises rebellion, which is further anchored by her carefree and powerful facial expressions.
- Intertextual conflict - police persecution of black people.
- Hanging out of a car, conflicts with Beyonce's calm facial expression.
- Contrast between poor, dilapidated neighbourhood and rich antebellum house, also creates conflict through the mise-en-scene of Beyonce's dress as she is wearing a slave's owners wives dress.
- Black woman wearing antebellum signifies cultural appropriation, but also demonstrates Beyonce's power over the past.
- High key spotlight in empty swimming pool, shorts, crop tops and 70's loose afros and librarian glasses.
Context on Formation
- Formation was the lead single in Beyonce's album Lemonade. Was released the day after Beyonce played at the Super-Bowl 2016.
- The music video has won numerous awards.
- Set against the backdrop of the flooding in New Orleans following Hurricane Katrina and the associated racial tension in America.
- The use of a canon in her movement where you see the BME women get 'shot' down could connote the aggression that BME women have to go through and maybe the idea that they're all just getting taken down one by one. (2.54)
- The movement of not only Beyonce but the camera aswell, seems as if we are going into a coffin, and the ideologies and perspectives of society on BME women are going into the coffin and are going to be buried away, this happens near the end of the video so it shows how after all of these events in the video's these stereotypes of BME women are finally being put to rest.
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