Restricted narration is where the audience and the characters of the music video learn story information at the same time. This is mainly used to create suspense, as in horror movies. Some horror directors have consciously used Omniscient rather than Restricted narration to create fear of the protagonist who does not know what the viewer knows.
Omniscient narration is where the viewer is not tied to one character and has a god-like view of the story, usually knowing all the thoughts and movements of characters. E.g in a horror film the viewer will know where the 'good' and 'bad' guys are, creating suspense until their paths meet.
In Busted's music video for 'What I go to school for' the director has followed the path involving restricted narration. Throughout the video we are following the band members and we are supposed to empathise with their feelings and actions along the storyline. There is a brief moment of omniscient narration when we see inside the teachers house and can see what she is doing, this is still slightly restricted as this is a first person view from one the the characters we are with.
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