Unit 7 Beauty Pageants

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The second aspect in the pretty hurts music video is setting. A setting in the music video is a small room full of trophies from previous beauty pageants she had competed in. It had two shelves that are above the drawer. There are photos of Beyoncé as a child taped to the shelves and they are hanging down. Along with trophies there were ribbons from competing in beauty pageants too and they were hanging on the wall. The collection of trophies varies in size. The bigger trophies are placed on the floor while the smaller trophies are placed on the shelves and drawers. Her collection of trophies tells us that she has competed in a number of beauty pageants and has no always one it because of the different sizes of the trophies. In all the scenes …show more content…

A scene in the music video where this setting is used is near the end of the music video and through a mid-shot we see Beyoncé is knocking down all the trophies in the room. This represents her knocking down the beauty standards and falling into the victim of that. It represents her knocking down all the pressure and pain that they made her feel and go though and shows that she has had enough of the pain that she out herself though to achieve this perfect body. Seeing the trophies and seeing throughout the music video how much emotional and physical pain she would have gone through when preparing and competing in the beauty pageants, we see how she has let her life be controlled by a trophy, by taking that winning position and bring the big trophy home and placing it on a shelf. It shows that she would have given up a lot of her time, effort and life to win all the trophies in the room. All the time and effort she would have put in winning the trophies tells us how the pressure of wanting to win the trophy has affected her, how it influenced her life and how she let it consume her life. How she has let a trophy, an object that has no true meaning to it influencing her into having the perfect body and to put all her time and effort into winning a piece of plastic in the colour of