Beyonce is famous for her uniqueness and originality in composing songs and making jaw-dropping music videos. From her song "Formation", we weren't aware of its existence; most of us had never heard of it until it was being played during our class in Contemporary Arts. From the video, it is evident that Beyonce used a lot of different angles with different costumes in different places. She made it sure that her message can be well-interpreted by the viewers and can create a huge impact in their lives.
As a student, what most of us had observed from her music video was totally all about racial discrimination since there were a lot of black men and they were against the system of the government, which was shown in the scene where a police car was floating in the water and slowly sinking. There were a lot more different meanings from her music video, but we only focused on one aspect and interpreted it creatively through a wordle.
Everyone worked and contributed something during the process of making. We decided to form a man, a gun, and a bullet with the use of words. In the man, we wrote words like 'black', 'trapped', 'hated', and everything else that could hurt a person's feelings. Words like 'white supremacy', 'kill', 'eliminate' were put in the gun. Only one word was put in the bullet: 'dead'. This was because we interpreted the video as a sign of racial discrimination. The gun represents those individuals who don't like dark people; the bullet symbolizes the words said which in turn can hurt the dark humans and can even cause them death.
From the activity, we've seen what discrimination had done to the victims and how black people feel differently about this issue. One problem that may have contributed to this is: we don't listen to what these group of people say or feel. This is the contributing factor of chaos in our world. Equality must be observed.
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