In Beyoncé music video on the song “Formation”, racism is a major point in what she is trying to get across. She wants the listeners of her to video to understand how poorly black people are being treated around the country. The scenes that describe what she was trying to say the best where when she and the five black guys are dressed in all black, the scene where the young black child is dancing in front of the police with their hands up and how the music video takes place in New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina. These scenes describe how Beyoncé expresses how black lives are being abused and treated terribly, the way in scene with the five black people and Beyoncé were dress as if they just left a funeral, also how the entire music video was shot like it was after Hurricane Katrina resembling how bad the city and how bad black people are being treated, and in the scene with the young boy and the entire police force in role-reversal roles are how Beyoncé gets her point across. This intro is very repetitive and contains grammar errors/run-ons. 

In the first scene, Beyoncé and five other black men dress up in all black, as to look like they have just come from a funeral. State topic sentence more clearly - what is this paragraph about? The panel was shot with a wide shot, showing all the people around Beyoncé. Each of the people were gazing off in different directions, like they couldn’t look at each other. All of the people were dressed in all black to symbolize the death and torture of so many black people in the past couple of years. She wants the audience to understand the amount of racism that goes on around the country. Black lives have never been treated the same as white in history, but it has become progressive worst in past couple years, with the number of police brutalizes on black men compared to the amount on white or latino men. The worst part of all these cases are that it’s the white police officers that are doing these shootings on young, innocent, black males.  Beyoncé’s hat is pulled down to symbolize the pain and suffering she doesn’t want to see. does it symbolize every death? This scene helps makes the viewers of this music video think about how black lives are being treated. 

In the second panel, there is a boy who is dancing in front of several police officers. The way the police officers were shot, all the viewer can see is several armed police officers with a young black boy in front of them. The scene makes the young boy look like a threat to the police. The young boy himself symbolizes what several people see when a police officer shoots a young black man. Most of the time when a young black in the country is kill by a police officer, the black man is unarmed and not looking for trouble, he is just in the wrong place at the wrong time. That black man mother sees her little baby boy dead on the ground, shot and kill by a someone who everyone is supposed to look up to. In this scene the roles are reversed, it’s not the boy who puts his hands up, but the police officers do. The reason Beyoncé did this is to what happens in real life, but it’s normal the boy with his hands up and police aiming at the boy with their guns. You say the boys hands are not up in the sentence before – watch your contradictions. She wants the viewers to think about how some of the black men were killed, unarmed, innocent, and not wanting any trouble. 

In the third panel, which is in the entire music video how Beyoncé makes the music video takes place in New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina and it resembles how black lives are being treated in the country. Repetitive. Also, this paragraph needs to be about a specific scene, not the whole video.  After Hurricane Katrina, New Orleans was destroyed and wasn’t the same place it was before Katrina happened. Beyoncé uses this to show how black lives are destroyed and different than white people’s lives. They correlate by how New Orleans was different after everything that happened and how black lives are now even different after all the police brutalities. Black men now have to be careful just to walk down the road and are scared when they see a police officer. Beyoncé wanted people to think about how black lives are being treated now and how they are treated different than white people are. They are treated different how police officers see a black man walking down the street in dark clothes, they see them as threats, but when they see a white man in dark clothes they don’t act like anything is wrong with them.  The part of the music video where she is laying on the police car as it is sinking, is a role-reversal with black lives. This is the first instance of a specific scene in this paragraph – this might be your topic sentence. then move on to analyzing this scene.  Like the sinking of the police car with Beyoncé is symbol for the death of a police officer by a black life and usually it’s black lives that are being lost to police officers.  

The name of this music video is “Formation”, the meaning of the name of the song is to have black people or any people stand up against police brutalities. Beyoncé wanted to do something to show what she thought about how black lives are being treated, so she made a controversial music video that people talk about every day. This motif covers the concerns of all black lives against the police. It covers what happens to the black man when they are shot and kill by white police officers. This motif can make the reader think about how he or she thinks about whether who is to blame more in the recent shootings around the country. The reason for this motif is to make the world think about how police officers are treating black people around the country. 
