Music Video Analysis

This is both a performative and narrative music video in which the members of Queen perform the song on stage and at certain points cut to a very dark and secluded setting. 
The visual elements that are used include a great deal of light, causing dramatic scenes when the band members are singing. When they are on stage, everything is more lit and they are moving around while the tone and lighting change with them. During these parts, the colors are muted on camera and during solos, is much heavier. The camera does move around with them on stage, however, it stays centered in one place when it switches to the dark scenes in which they are singing a cappella. Minor color effects are added in, but other than that, the focus is their faces and voices. 
Some of the key moments in the video are these dramatic a cappella scenes. The music stops and you wonder what is going to happen and what they are going to sing. Another key moment is in the beginning of the song during the piano solo. Solos are intriguing anyways, but the camera focusing on Freddie Mercury (lead singer) and the passion make it much more theatrical. 
All of these components seem to mildly follow the story of the song, but not in any significant way. It is rather more realistic to the performance of the song and the passion that goes into it each and every time it is performed. 
To my understanding, this was one of the first to be considered a music video, and on that level, I think it accomplishes the aspects of what we consider one today.