Last week of school, we carried out a simple exercise to prepare us for the challenge of the music videos 2017. It served the purpose to become familiar with the technique of lip syncing and also have a bit of fun with friends. There were three sets (a fireplace with a Beatles poster, a light wall with a dolly set in front, and a sofa with a green screen. They were useful for a better time management between the groups of performers, who were helped by a floor manager and a play back organiser in charge of the timing.
After the filming, we were arranged into smaller groups to edit the footage. I worked with my old partners from the opening sequence exercise, Ellis and Emma, and we were taught two main ways of editing a lip syc:
- Sync up the shots with the snare which played before the song began so that the music and video are in time, arranging the footage easily by just cutting out the bits that are not selected.
- Match up the timing from the playback person by using the zoomed in shot of it before the actual filming and the sound track with the same numbers.
In our group, we found it easier and quicker to use the snare sounds to guide us, as it is a more intuitive way than having to search for the numbers. We chose a variety of videos which we found creative enough from a number of performers and each one of us took turns to edit it as we all want to get experience for the future. We refused to cut each shot in the beat of the song because we believed it would get too boring and repetitive, so we explored various other ways of cutting for a while and the result turned out pretty well:
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