Narrative and Performance used together

These two main forms of music video are found to be used together in a lot of music videos these days because these are seen to be most effective and interesting. I think this is because by just having a performance video it can sometimes get quite boring if it just them performing and very repetitive. If the music video is fully narrative this can also sometimes have cons as well because I think sometimes if there is no lip sychronising within the video and it tells a full story this can sometimes destract the viewer from the actual song as they get too engrossed in the story telling and this can sometimes be a bad thing. This is the reason why most artists choose to mix the two forms together and sometimes tell a story whilst performing.

Some examples I found of this are:

Dizzee Rascal "Dream". This has Dizzee Rascal rapping the whole song whilst a woman is playing the piano but I would say it also has some kind of narration because there are other characters within the video that are puppets that are telling a story related to the lyrics. The woman also introduces the video like the beginning of a story.


The Gorillaz song "Clint Eastwood" is also a mix of forms as although it is not actually the band that are shown in the video, they have cartoon characters that represent them and are playing instruments in the video. This aspect of the video makes it a performance video but it also kind of tells a story throughout the video which makes it narrative.


The song "Boys and Girls" by Good Charlotte. This video at the beginning shows the band in a gig performing the song which shows the performance side of the video but it is also narrative because the video switches to showing actors telling a story within a neighbourhood. I could not manage to embed this video into my blog but this is the link to YouTube where you can view the video.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WYRjUTV9jgQ

Lady GaGa and Beyonce's video "Telephone" is a good example of a mix of forms. Although the song is only around 3 minutes long the video is a total of just over 9 minutes because there is a lot of acting scenes in the video to tell a detailed story which is why it makes it a narrative video. There is also a couple of scenes where the performers are singing and dancing for example in the diner which also shows the performance side of the video.