Narrative Sequence is the term for a music video or a video in general that has a set story to it that is implied either through the video itself or the song that is played over the video, Most music videos do not have a set narrative and are just the band or singer performing, whereas some have a whole story, like a mini-movie, that portrays the song. Others and possibly the most common are narrative-based music videos with shots of performance mixed in.

Simple music video of the band performing in some form of warehouse with flashing colorful lights, Although this is a music video it does not have a set narrative/Story it is a performance from the band. The start of the song has a few small slithers of light that illuminate each one of the band members. When the chorus begins the lights around the room become purple with white stop lights before it stops when it’s back to its regular lyrics, at that point all the lights turn back off to soft purple light.

disjunctive Music Video (No Narrative, All Performance)

The main singer dancing around in some sort of waiting room but the floors and furniture are moving around while the walls stay still. halfway through the video, it cuts to a hallway with some backup dancers sliding back while the main star is running toward the camera like they’re on a treadmill. towards the end of the video, it goes back to the room from the beginning but there is a pool of blood forming on the floor from one of the sofas.

Experimental Music Video (No narrative, Some Performance, Overall pretty weird and unusual)

Animated Music Video (all Narrative, no performance, Really unusual and has this dark vibe only using red, white, and black)

The 3 main characters running away from some black wolf/monster, these 3 characters are a businessman, a teenager who smokes and skates, and a regular man in casual clothing riding a moped. They all seem to have some sort of issue apart from the man on the moped. The businessman seems to have some form of drinking problem possibly due to his stressful job. The teenager has a smoking problem. As they all run away they converge together when they are all knocked down the man in casual clothes stands up and faces the wolves who are meant to symbolize fear and how running from it doesn’t work and you should just face it.

Ideas For Music videos

High School Spirit – A music video about a student who lost their lives in an accident with their high school sweetheart and now wanders the world looking for her for them to meet at their favorite place, the swings

Mother Unnatural – A man sits at his computer and is slowly becoming a recluse, his research leads him to find out how technology has destroyed the natural order of the world, mothers can decide the color and features of their child, and how the future will be made of technologies, he tries to spread his words and warning online but everyone calls him crazy and insane which eventually drives him to insanity

High School Spirit v2.0 – A story about a Student under all this pressure, abusive family, abusive friends, and girlfriend, he dies in an accident, and for him to wake up and be a ghost he goes around to see that all his burdens of life are gone and he can now, for the first time ever, Relax and enjoy what he’s doing. (I would use a song like Redbones – Come and get your love or Norman Greenbaum’s – Spirit In the Sky)

I love the idea of  High School Spirit v2.0