Ideas For Narrative For Music Video

When creating my surveymonkey survey, I had written a question asking about ideas for a music video to the song I am using. I had some good suggestions that I took into consideration when planning my music video.

• An abstract video, no real meaning just for aesthetics, pink/pastel colours, childhood elements such as teddy bears and dolls

• A video from childhood to adolescence, showing how girls learn that they have to become attractive to fit in at a young age (playing with barbies, toy makeup etc) 

• A video in which a girl tries to be like everybody else but decides she'd rather be herself instead.

For the first idea, I thought that this would be a good way of making my video aesthetically pleasing (the majority of those asked in the survey look for aesthetics the most in a video) but I didn't think I'd be able to achieve this as abstract videos require lots of editing and also I wouldn't be sure how to fill up the song's timing with just pretty visuals.

The second suggestion sounded really interesting and effective and I strongly considered the idea but I decided it would be difficult to get children in the video and retrieve the props needed to make it work.

The third idea is what gave me the most inspiration for a narrative video as it'd be relatable and also easy to film. Although I also think this idea might be too cliche and decided I needed to twist it and add more in order to make it effective and not boring. So my final idea for a narrative was to feature a girl who discovers the world of beauty and fashion and altering your appearance. She becomes very caught up in it all, changing her appearance drastically and trying to become skinner based on what she'd seen in TV's, magazines and mainly the girls around her whom she watches to try and take notes on how to become like them. She soon becomes obsessed with this lifestyle and it takes over her life. At the end of the video, nearing or at the end of the song, the narrative suddenly changes and focuses on the girl that the previous girl was watching and trying to be, but it turns out she is living the exact same lifestyle. The message of the narrative is that everybody is feeling the same way about themselves, even the most attractive of girls and models in magazines and it is not possible to be perfect to society as it is entirely subjective.