The narrative of a music video is important to not be complete as to create enigma, so that the audience are encouraged rewatch the video.

Therefore instead of the structure of a music video being a complete story and having a beginning, middle and end, Todorov proposed that it should follow the structure of an equilibrium, disruption, resolution and the new equilibrium.

A music video can also be categorised in to one of the following, depending on the structure and order of the narrative:

• Anachronic – the story is out of sequence, including flashbacks and flash-forwards.
• Episodic – short self contained scenes usually thematically linked.
• Parallel – cross cutting between two scenes that meet at the climax
• Linear – runs in chronological order

The narrative can be any one of the following:

• Amplified – The video links to the key themes and messages of the lyrics and aids them.
• Disjunctive – The video and lyrics have very little to do with each other.
• Illustrative – The narrative illustrates the lyrics directly.

In order to prepare for shooting our narrative, we compiled this document of initial planning and ideas for our amplified narrative.

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