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One way you could tell how much effort Beyoncé and her team had put into the show was from the precisely composed images being fed to the enormous screens flanking the stage (and to YouTube, which livestreamed the performance).

Typically that type of camera work is pretty straightforward. But here it was designed like a movie, bringing the viewer’s attention to granular elements — like one drummer’s facial expression as she busted out military-grade paradiddles — that you couldn’t see from even the closest position on the polo grounds.

Beyoncé’s Coachella performance was incredible — and she knew it