BANKS - Beggin For Thread (Official Music Video)

This whole video is black and white which is a continuing theme when it comes to the artist Banks making a music video. The director used close up shots of the dancers partially naked bodies in order to give the video an abstract look. They also used a hair light behind Banks the main singer in order to give the illusion that the singer is performing this on stage. The camera movements are very rapid and very hard to keep up with which is what makes this video so interesting to look at because your eyes are trying to follow as many things as possible at once. When the singer says "I've got some dirt on my shoes" a person behind her grabs her neck, this could indicate that by dirt on her shoes shes referring to blood on her hands. To contract the fast camera movements they put the video in slow motion at times to really capture all the detail of the dancers bodies and to also give it slow time effect.

During the middle/end there is a man covered in red powder which could have a deeper meaning of blood and murder. The partially naked dancers are all in fact motion however the man covered in red is only shown in slow motion, this puts the attention on him instead of the other dancers. They used  lot of powder in the video, the powder is thrown around when the dancers do a big movement. This gives the video a very ghostly effect, as if those dancers are dead. At the end of the video there was a white horse that raised is front legs, the horse had a striking resemblance to the dancers because they were covered in white powder and coincidently the horse was also white and filmed in slow motion.

From this video I loved seeing the white powder being thrown around the complement the dancers movement. Also when it has a spotlight on the dancers the white powder really stands out which is something I want to include in my own video.