Styles of Music Videos- Narrative Based

Narrative based music videos are videos where a story is told throught the music video relating to the words in the music or a story is shown through the video. A good example of this is Coldplays song, Hurts Like Heaven. In the music video there is a comic theme to it where it shows you the story through the song and leaves a 'To be continued' at the end to show that the story isn't over yet and speculating another music video will be made for a song from their album. Artists do this to get the audience hooked to the song and make you want to know the story of the song. People will then often watch the music video multiple times to make sure they haven't missed anything important. This is a good technique used in many music videos.