The document discusses how editing plays a key role in music videos by directing the narrative flow and underscoring visual structures. It notes that music video editing is particularly responsive to the music itself, enabling relationships between the song and images. Continuity editing from films is less common in music videos as it could overtake the song. Music video editing exceeds film editing by responding strongly to musical features like rhythm, tone, melody and structure. Close-ups of the artist are often edited in a way that allows the audience to grasp a musical element and commit it to memory amid the rich, dissolving images.