Types of Music Video - Narrative

A narrative based music video will almost always have a story line in the video. This is a great type to use as it engages the audience effectively through the concept of story telling and drama. It will typically relate to the lyrics and genre of the song and the artist will hope this will allow the audience to connect and relate better to the actual song as it is easier to find the meaning when a visual example is provided.

A good example of a narrative video is David Guetta's Lovers on the Sun - 2014, it is western themed electronic dance music and therefor has a western related music video:

Another great example of a narrative based video is Nickelback's Lullaby - 2011, this is an interesting music video since it has a narrative story line as well as being a performance video: