Treatment: Music Video

Song: Closer
Artist: The Tiny
Album: Close Enough

CLOSER

A TREATMENT FOR A MUSIC VIDEO

By

KEVIN MCCARTHY

Apartment.

Boston.

Day.

Wide of a bright white mantelpiece filled to the edge with PICTURES IN FRAMES, all of the same couple. Reverse shot, focused on the back of the frames, of the living room, a WOMAN is moving out of focus in the background (she is the woman in the pictures).

Park.

Boston.

Day.

A MAN and a WOMAN (the same woman in the apartment) sit on a bench. Both on are opposite ends of the bench only their torsos and legs visible. They cut off at the neck.

A series of shots in the apartment and the park (maybe slow motion)…

• a framed photo of the couple younger kissing
• a photo of the couple posing in front of the State House
• wide of the bench, faces still not visible, the two people are closer
• a photo of the couple graduating, standing within their class
• a photo of the couple at a party with friends, wide smiles, on the couch
• the camera is closer to the bench, the people closer as well
• a photo of the couple playing frisbee outside
• a photo of the couple standing in front of the Charles River
• camera closer to the bench, people closer
• a photo of the couple at the local theater waiting in line with friends
• a photo couple at the Aquarium looking at the manatees

As the Aquarium framed photo is shown in a close up on the mantelpiece, a woman’s hand pulls it out of frame.

Wide of the mantelpiece, the woman is now removing the photos one by one from the mantelpiece and placing them into a box in her arms. When half of the images are taken down the woman places the box on the ground on the left side of the mantelpiece.

Cutting between park and apartment.

The two sitting at the bench are now shown closer, their knees almost touching, nothing else is in the image to draw attention away from them.

Wide of the mantelpiece. The woman is taking down the last of the photographs and placing them in the box. Only a few remain.

The two people at the bench are now touching, their heads resting on each others. It is the couple from the photos. We can see every moment they make contact.

Cut to a close up of the last photograph placed in the box. It is of the couple sitting on the bench, heads resting on one another.

Wide shot of the empty mantelpiece with the now full box sitting slightly to the left in front of it. The woman has left the room.

Fade to black.