Today’s Live Twitter Songwriting Exercise is “Songwriting from a Photograph”
You will be writing a SONG CHORUS based upon the photo on this page. Please read the instructions fully before continuing – there’s no rush… 
Instructions:
1. Properties of a Chorus
- A chorus is usually based around the language of thoughts and feelings
- It summarises the song and is repeated several times within the song
- It is the most memorable part of the song – the part that you want people to sing along to
- It contains the song’s title – which is often repeated within the chorus to get people to remember it
- The most powerful positions for the title within the chorus are the first or last lines (or both)
2. Analyse the Photo…
- Look at the photograph. What is happening here? Who is the girl? Don’t just jump to obvious conclusions. There are many possible interpretations of this photo.
- What is the story behind this photo?
- What is the girl thinking and feeling? What emotions she is going through?
- Who are the other people involved in this story and what are they thinking and feeling?
3. Decide Upon a Title for Your Song
- This should be fairly short and memorable
- It should summarise what the song is about
- Don’t be afraid to repeat the title in the chorus
4. Write You Chorus
- You are going to have to fit your chorus into a single tweet (140 chars!) so it’s going to have to be quite short
- Separate the lines of your chorus with commas
- You will need to put #SongEx on the end of the tweet so that people can see it (#SongEx Hashtag)
- It’s fine to use abbreviations as long as people can still understand
5. Send out your chorus on Twitter
- DON’T send it to us – just send it as a general tweet
- DON’T forget to put #SongEx on the end of your tweet – or nobody will see it!
- DON’T write a long chorus and split it up into several tweets – the fun of this is the creativity that comes out when you are faced with a severe restriction like this
- DO enter several times if you want to – as long as it is with totally different choruses each time
- ABOVE ALL – Have Fun!
We will retweet (RT) as many entries as we can and then over the weekend we will post all entries to this website.
LET THE SONGWRITING BEGIN!
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Sorry its meant to read ‘a fort built around her being’
Sorry it meant to read ‘a fort built around her being’
When I come to close
She becomes comatose
From an overdose
Of some bad love I suppose
Her heart calcified from the bleed
Now there’s a stone where it should be
A for built around her being
Echoes of pain’s sound for seeing
There’s damage done to repair
She needs a spark with some air
She needs a gun with a flare
I guess its not a chorus but a verse. I struggle with chorus’ but do well with refrains.