Now that you are aware of the elements that help contribute towards a narrative in terms of structure, characters and key themes, you will need to outline your own ideas.

The more detail you can add at this stage the better as then you will be able to complete a storyboard much more easily.

Take a copy of this document and complete it as a group.

You will have developed a simple narrative structure to your video in three parts:

1. The Beginning – How do you establish the story / theme in the video/ characters?
2. The Middle – What is the development of the story or the conflict within the theme?
3. The End – How does the theme/story resolve or does it? What end message do you wish to communicate?

Remember

Shaping the narrative in your music video.

Even if your video is thematically based (images and ideas about jealousy for example or entrapment or starting over)  you should consider it as a narrative. This means, however abstract and thematic your video might be, you should show narrative development and characters progression.