Editing: Montage and Continuity

There are two ways of editing a music video. You can do montage, which is a series of clips put to music or continuity, used when telling a story. This means you could do two types of music videos: Narrative (A story) or Abstract (no story).
A good example of a montage is the training scenes in the Rocky films. The clips are not strught after each other and do not try to establish a link with every clip. It simply cuts back and forth to different clips while keeping to the music.