Here are some examples of Christain music videos; either all performance, part performance part narrative or all narrative.
Audio Adrenaline - Get Down
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tnnbbmRDwVk
Unfortunately this one wouldn't let me have an embedding code. This is a part performace, part story video. Mostly dominated by story, it tells of a guy who is having a normal day at work and out and about, but things aren't going well for him. "I get down, and He lifts me up" is the prominent line in the song, meaning that although he is having a bad day, he knows God is there to get him through. Thre aren't many symbollic things in the video such as a Cross or a Bible or something, yet there is a strong reference to Christianity in the lyrics throughout the whole song.
Carrie Underwood - Jesus Take The Wheel
This video, to some extent, is like our video ideas. It has characters that start off with problems - one with a baby crying and another is a couple arguing - and they turn out ok in the end with the help of Christ. Again, like previously and like our video, it is part performance, part story. The narrative works well because there are three seperate situations that are happening. I think that the purpose of this video is to target all non-Christians by using normal situations that quite possibly will happen in that person's future. That way they can relate to it more easily.
Our God He Reigns - Simon Brading and 29th Chapter
This is purely a performance. When I went to the Newday festival in August, they performed this song, however this video is performed at Newday 2008. It shows that as long as you have something happening in the performance that's interesting, in this case the crowd and the hilariously weird rappers, then a full performance video can work. Although, it can become a bit of a monotony having to watch it all the way through!
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