Twinkle Twinkle Little Star As-Live

Today we had to edit the footage of the chorus of our song we had filmed last week into an As-Live video. We worked on our own to prove that we could edit videos individually and to prepare us for next years coursework when we create the whole music video by ourselves. This is how mine turned out.

Analysing an As-Live Video

Kings and Queens - 30 Seconds to Mars

Before anyone starts playing their instruments or singing, all of the people in the video are filmed so the audiences knows who will be featured in the video.

More or less the entire first verse is filmed with a single shot that slightly zooms in of the lead singer singing.

There are a few cross-dissolves used throughout the video to add a nice effect and to keep the audience interested.

There are some children that add backing vocals to the song and they are also filmed throughout the video along with their conductor, mainly when they are singing.

Analysing a Narrative Video

Love is a Battlefield - Pat Benatar

The narrative story is about a woman who runs away from home and becomes a prostitute. At the end, her and the other prostitute's rebel to the owner of the prostitution club and have a 'dance-off' with him in order to claim their freedom.

Even as a narrative video, the singer still lip syncs to the video.

There are clips that cut back to her previous life back at her old home such as when she send a letter to her brother.

The start of the video and the end are the same scene of the singer on a bus, thinking about her life and what has happened throughout the middle section of the video.

Rewriting my Verse

I was assigned to rewrite the lyrics to this verse of the original song:


When the blazing sun is gone
When there's nothing he shines upon
Then you show your little light,
And Twinkle, twinkle, through the night.


These are the ideas I came up with:

When the fame and fortune is gone
In which your stardom shines upon
Your eyes go for what is in sight
And lights the stars up in the night
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When the sun is high and you are gone
There's no need for your shining song
But later its another night
When fame is what lights up your sight
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Into the night and you are gone
Straight to the place where you belong
You are what glows in the night
Your shining rays of silver light

Original Lyrics to Twinkle Twinkle Little Star

Twinkle, twinkle, little star star la ba la
How I wonder what you are
Up above the world so high
Like a diamond in the sky

When the blazing sun is gone
When there's nothing he shines upon
Then you show your little light,
And Twinkle, twinkle, through the night.

In the dark blue sky
You keep
And through my curtains often peek
For you never shut your eyes
Till the sun is in the sky

Then a traveller in the dark
Thanks you for your tiny spark
He couldn't see which way to go
if you didn't twinkle so

No, I don't know
What you are
Twinkle, twinkle, little star

Twinkle, twinkle, little star
How I wonder what you are

Up above
the world so high
Like a diamond
in the sky

Like a diamond
Like a diamond
Like a diamond
Like a diamond
You shine your little light (like a diamond)
And twinkle, twinkle through the night

Twinkle, twinkle, little star
How I wonder what you are

Ideas

I'm in a group doing a music video for the song 'Twinkle Twinkle Little Star' and these are some ideas our group came up with:

.Change the lyrics to the song apart from the chorus.
.Change the meaning of the star to a celebrity in order to create a more contemporary song about what is happening now as celebrities are very big.
.Rap some parts of the song and/or use a techno beat.