Narrative based music videos

A narrative based video is one of the three main types of music videos, this is where the video consists of a story line which is related to the lyrics and the genre of the song which can engage the audience as it is like a short film and this can also have intertextual references as well like for example Beyonce's 'work it out' video in the previous blog.

Marc Klasfeld is a good example of a music director that uses a narrative style for his music videos, he has worked with The script, The fast east movement, The wombats and many more but the best example from him would be 'the man who can't be moved' by The Script which also has some performance based scenes but it is mainly narrative as its a short story about how a man waits for the return of his love in one place through day and night and that no-one can move him.

A great example of a narrative based video is 'breezeblocks' by Alt-j which is one of my favorite songs and the reason its a great example is because it shows a short film in reverse of how the man killed his wife and what happened before but in the first line 'hold her down with soggy clothes and breezeblocks' it shows the woman trapped in a bath by a breezeblock which then reflects the lyrics.
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