Closer by The Kings Of Leon.

The Kings of Leon released there album “Only by the Night” in September 2008. And from the start Closer has become a very well liked dark gothic song, so with this they have had to create a music video which represents the true representation of the song. 

The music video starts of  with the words Patricia, from hear the hole video is pictured in black and white, the director has done this to represent the dark urban feel of the video . the music starts and we follow a young man walking thro a room at a mid shorts and then there is a short reverse shot of him walking out of the room. As the drums kike in there is a cross cut of a hand with a ring on it, and then once again on the drum beat we come back to the young man on a buss looking out of the window, all of the short edits are at the speed and on the same beat so it makes it interesting to listen and watching the music on the beat. As the man is looking out of the window there is a close up of his nose and his eyes.

The necked seen we see his feet walking down the pavement and at the point there is a fast zoom out were we see the hole man walking with a hoody.  At this point the director is still making the image very dark , and is prorating the urban youth atmosphere to the video.

As the music careys on there is a constant fast zoom out which is carys on showing the man walking thro the street. And then once again on the beat there is a mid shot of the mans face,  this is the first time we have a full facial view of the mans face,  we see he is leistering to music thro his head phones, this is quite clever because this might represent that he is listening to the song we are also listening to. The necked edit is a hand held shot of the mans back walking throw the same street all very interesting!!! There is jump cut of him walking away from the camera. There is a fade to black are the necked scene is of the moon looking thro some tree branches. Then on the beat the lyrics start and there is a fast short of the man looking up from the flour to the camera, and then we go back to the feet walking along the pavement.

The necked part we have very fast edits which are very slick, two of the shorts are stills of the urban streets and bins and then there use the same short of the close up short of the mans nose and eyes. All of this are very fast edits which make the film much more interesting.

The necked edit is of the man walking down a street signing to the lyrics once again there are some very fast edits of him walking on side on shorts low shorts al sort of things which create a very fast slick feeling to the video. These fast edits include a women Turing round a looking at him, to him walking in a park, the fast edits carry on when he walks past a coffee shop, were the same women is looking at him walking past the shop window.  As this is hapering there is a short reverse short of the girl and the man and back to the girl in the girls shot there is a focus pull on another girl in the background.

 The necked few shorts are all based on short reverse short in the Coffey shop and once again it is all based on very fast edits and makes the hole film very fast and silk.

The necked few scenes the director goes back to the urban street feel were there are motorbikes and yet we still see the man walking past the motorbikes and they still play on the part of the women looking at him.

I really like how they have done the fast editing all the way thro, but I feel that it is a little bit to much, there is one scene were he is stroking so tennis wire which creates a vey interesting image.

The necked scene we see a sun set in coaler, which is very different contrast compared to the black and white photography thro the rest of the video. Then we go back to the man walking thro the streets with his hood up and of Corse this is gone back in to black and white, the director plays on fast editing the hole way thro the video and he uses very similar scenes with similar back grounds.

The very last scene the man is on one side of  the road and the girl is on the otter side, there is a high angel pan following her running across the road and then this leads to them both getting with each other.

Over all it is a very nice slick music video with lots and lots of fast edits, I love the song and I feel the video works very well with the song.

William Heynes