Categories of Music Videos - Narrative - Charli XCX "Boom Clap"

A narrative music video is a video that has the ability the use visual communication to tell a story throughout, linking to the lyrics of the song. This keeps the target audience's attention for longer and makes the video easier to remember. An example of this is in the song "Boom Clap" by Charli XCX, who created a song used in the popular film "The Fault in Our Stars", telling a romantic love story throughout. A lot of narrative music videos take relevant clips from films and edit it into the video to connect both together into one.