Beyonce- Mrs Carter Show

Elizabethan Elements:

In 2013 Beyonce did a world tour featured as the Mrs Carter Show. Beyonce has created many videos, adverts and backing videos for her world wide tour. The first video which was from YouTube was a backdrop video, this is the video that plays before she comes on the stage and during her performance. This videos theme is clearly all white, and the style of clothes and hair I think can slightly relate to Elizabethans or Queen Elizabeth herself. Our brief title is the New Elizabethan which when we create our final look or through development we can bring our own modern interpretation of the Elizabethan era. In this video Beyonce and her back up dancers are all in white, the men are all wearing 'ruffs' around there neck which is a item of clothing they wore in the era. For Beyonce herself she has her face and body painted white and has defined red lips these was seen as high beauty in the elizabethan era, the whiter your skin was the more pure and beauiful you were, this was complimented with red lips and cheeks. Another Elizabethan influence is the hair, she has wavy large hair which is put up into a beehive, this volume and technique was used a lot in the elizabethan times. At the end of the clip a man places a large piece of jewellery on Beyonces head; props, jewels, pearl and other accessories were very popular to wear in the hair during the Elizabethan times. The amount and type of jewels showed wealth and class in women.





This second video of Beyonce is the advertisement for the Mrs Carter Show world tour for O2. This video is very similar to the first clip however she's not completely in white this time. The clothing such as the corset is very 16th/17th century because the women would wear them under there clothing to bring there waists in. When Beyonce walks into the room the camera turns and face the walk which shows a portrait painting of beyonce which is in a very similar style to Queen Elizabeths 1 with the use of colour, clothing and stance. She is portrayed as the Queen. Another important Elizabethan influence is the hair again, Beyonce hair is curled in tight ringlets which were in fashion in the 16th century. She has part of it clipped up into again a beehive which is topped with a crown on a slant with a few strands loose strands of curls at the front of the hair similar to one of Elizabeths hairstyles. In the extended version of the video clip they spoke about how the point of the video was not to get the history spot on but it was to get there own interpretation of what they thought it would look like.