Illustration

Illustration is the story of a music video when the video follows a specific story often told by the lyrics of the song. This can be don’t by showing certain things happening at certain times in conjunction with other things happening around, like the lyrics or even a certain change in the music. Often, if a music video does contain a story it doesn’t have just that story in the video. For example they might have shots going back to the band or artist singing the song before cutting back to the story. Others, however, can contain purely narrative images, like Ed Sheeran’s video of ‘the A team’.

Ed Sheeran - the A team