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Beyoncé

Beyoncé

3 films · 137 frames · top-billed in 2 · 20162020

Born 4 September 1981 · Houston, Texas, USA

Beyoncé Giselle Knowles-Carter, often known simply as Beyoncé, is an American R&B and pop recording artist and actress.

Born and raised in Houston, Texas, she enrolled in various performing arts schools and was first exposed to singing and dancing competitions as a child. Knowles rose to fame in the late 1990s as the lead singer of the R&B girl group Destiny's Child, one of the world's best-selling girl groups of all time.

Awards

On FrameThrower we have: 3 films · 137 frames · top-billed in 2 · 20162020

  • Time 1002023
  • GLAAD Vanguard Award2019
  • Favorite Soul/R&B Female Artist2019
  • Grammy Award for Best Progressive R&B Album2019
  • MTV Video Music Award for Best Cinematography2018
  • MTV Video Music Award for Best Art Direction2018
  • Grammy Award for Best Music Video2017
  • Grammy Award for Best Progressive R&B Album2017
  • American Music Award for Tour of the Year2017
  • MTV Video Music Award for Video of the Year2016
  • MTV Video Music Award for Best Direction2016
  • MTV Video Music Award for Best Female Video2016

How their films are shot

Measured across 137 frames from the 3 films we hold. This is the look of the work Beyoncé takes, not a claim about any single frame — we index the cast of a film, never the people in a shot.

Across the 3 films we hold, 42% of their frames are day — the look of the work Beyoncé takes.

Time of day

Day42%
Night31%
Interior12%
Dusk8%

Lighting

Natural38%
Low key28%
High key20%
Silhouette9%

Shot size

Wide34%
Medium31%
Fullbody21%
Closeup12%

Camera angle

Eye level82%
Low angle7%
Top down5%
High angle5%

Mood

Neutral75%
Lonely9%
Tense6%
Ominous4%

Films in the library

Every poster opens that film — stills, cinematography notes and colour palette.

A reference database for filmmakers

FrameThrower is a fully machine-searchable film database and visual reference library — all 137 frames from Beyoncé's 3 films, and 5,000+ films besides, indexed frame by frame and readable by AI. Search it in plain language, from a reference image, or by colour; call it from an API, an MCP server or an SDK. It's the reference layer for making the next movie.