Thursday, 23 September 2010

Lip Synch Tutorial

In our media lesson we had to create a music video focusing mainly on lip syncing. Our groups were all given a song and lyrics to which we had to learn and film a person singing to, the whole way through the song from various different angles, then edit our videos on final cut pro and sync the soundtrack of the song successfully with the video's lip movement.

Throughout this activity, i learned new skills such as how to use markers on final cut pro to get close syncing results. I also found out how to make a pop video with various different shots, as in each shot we did we had to film the whole song the whole way to the end from each different angle/location we were filming from, and then synced from the same point of the begining of each video to the same point on the soundtrack.

The part i found most challenging with this task is getting the markers to be in the same place on every video and sound track, as alot of the time, the lip movement would start just before or just after the soundtrack.

One thing i also learned that is it best to film a music video actualy singing rather than miming as this makes syncing alot easier as the lip movement is more likely to be correctly timed with the music.

Compared to my thriller film, the edting and filming of a music video differs. Firstly, the thriller i made was filmed shot by shot, not the whole scene through, where as the whole music video is filmed with the whole seen through, and the process is repeated again and again. Also, with editing out thrillers, the clips were added one by one in a line next to eachother in the order the events happend, however with the music video, each of the clips is added to the timeline on top of eachother, placed in sync with the soundtrack,and sliced up using the knife tool with deleting segments of the clips in different places.

This is our final video from our lip sync tutorial. The Song is called Hes the greatest dancer by by Sister Sledge.






Here are the photos from our video shoot, which show how we managed to film the music video.







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