Bohemian Rhapsody

Video

The video was created for the sole purpose of allowing the band to be on tour and appear on the BBC's Top of the Pops. It was shot in just over four hours and cost only £4500 to produce, using an outside broadcast truck owned by one of the band's managers. Shot on the band's rehearsal stage, it was designed to show the band performing live.

Related Topics:
BBC - Top of the Pops

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All the special effects were done during the recording. The effect of having the face zooming away was accomplished by simply pointing the camera at a monitor, thus giving visual feedback.

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The video for the single was directed by Bruce Gowers, using ideas from the band themselves.

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It was not the first time a band had made a promo, but differed in being shot entirely on videotape as opposed to film. It is therefore widely regarded as the first real music video (although most modern music videos are shot on film anyway). In the original version of the video an apparent editing glitch led to the piano part briefly being double-tracked out of sync with itself, but this was corrected in later releases.

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