Thursday, 3 July 2014

Style- I want to break free

I feel that the style of the music video 'I want to break free' by Queen is a mixture of interpretive and narrative. I think that it's interpretive because it focuses on presenting a unique visual experience that viewers can evaluate what they think it means for themselves. I also think it's a narrative as I believe that Freddy Mercury is trying to portray hidden messages through his lyrics about his sexuality and not being able to fully express himself, which is very clever. Another technique they use here is pastiche when they refer back to their previous video 'Bohemian Rhapsody' when they're stood in that iconic diamond formation with the torches around them whilst they sing. The video is also quite surreal because of the fact that Queen dress up in drag in parts of the video doing house work, and Mercury, along with a group of dancers, are all dressed in leotard type clothing whilst lying on each other and rolling around. The start of the video shows different shots of rooftops and it opens with the band in a living room which is a spoof/parody of the tv show Coronation street. The video was also unconventional at the time as men didn't tend to dress as women. They were also representing the image of women in the 80's and how they were only seen as people who do the house work and weren't any better than that.


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