Twilight Zone

A Video my buddy Frank Graves thought up after hearing the song. I just happened to have all the TZ's on tape! This was in 1983, so it wasn't common. So we threw this together and won some CPS awards for editing and concept

Category:

Entertainment

Tags:

• Twilight
• Zone
• Rod
• Serling
• Manhattan
• Transfer
• Whitney
• Young
• High
• School

[HessNineteen67]

I just wanna thank everyone for their comments. I really never thought this video would get the hits it's getting from the places it's getting. It's pretty cool to see this thing taking off.

[antblue363]

Best editing I ever saw .

[HessNineteen67]

Thanks. We did win some awards for it.

[JohnnySwitchblade]

Forgive me, I'm but 17 (though my music and films tastes say otherwise)...

How did one go about editing a videotape with music and all that pizazz back in the early 80s?

[HessNineteen67]

It wasn't that hard actually. If you have used any computer based editors we were doing the same thing, assemble editing, but with two industrial 1/2 inch machines and a time code controller. You lay a video blue control track on the master tape, then lay your audio track over that, then you just assemble your video over those two to the music. It's pretty simple. the hardest part was getting all the footage together to be honest.

[jht1414]

So you did this without even using a computer! That's awesome!!!!!!!

[HessNineteen67]

This was done in 1984, so, yeah. No computers.

[hebneh]

Reading the comments, I now understand the video glitches and less-than-perfect appearance of this video...it was done in the early '80s! Which is the dark ages for editing, especially amateur video work. Seen in that light, it's terrific!

[Giverney13]

Great job!!! I think you ought to title it also as Twilight Zone Mashup-it is tight work friend! So many are attached to computers, ipods, games, blackberry, cells, and few can act without a machine assisting-I prefer without the machine-as the real talent can be shown-not the props and crutches...Take care

[5548612]

yOU'RE AWESOME... LUV THE Visuals.... *****

[XxslitwristsxX]

dude. my school did a tap piece to this song, it was amazing!!!!

[MrTonedeff]

@Bluesdirections yes you are right on the money about graydon.his style is cool and he influenced steve lukather and is godfather to one of lukes kids! i also like jay on the christopher cross debut on the tracks say you,ll be mine and never be the same!with david foster he formed the supergroup Airplay ,they did the track nothin you can do about it that MAN HAT TRANS did on the Extensions album!

[Bluesdirections]

Three members of Toto. Figures. They were great session musos. Brilliant guitar solo by Jay Graydon.

[SuperMikeyg]

AWESOME !

[MrTonedeff]

great tune produced by jay graydon with solo by graydon,jeff porcaro on drums ,steve lukather on rhythm guitar,david hungate bass( 3 members of toto at the time) and david foster on keyboards.the solo is awesome graydon is incredible.check him out on steely dan song peg brilliant! he also co wrote after the love is gone with david foster and bill champlin they won two grammies in 1980! manhattan can sing for sure great harmonies!

[yoni0063]

Great job guys! I was an FM DJ back in the day, used to spin that record til it wore out! LOL

[paul51]

Another gem from the past . . . and an excellent, well put together video!!