Lip Sync Exercise

To prepare for the lip sync exercise, Katie told us a week before which song we would be lip syncing to and we all made sure to learn the lyrics so that our lip syncing would be accurate and realistic on the day. The song was 'Shape of You' by Ed Sheeran.

The aim of this exercise was to get us acquainted with lip syncing and editing to make the sure the syncing looks realistic, as this is a challenge we will have to face next year when making our music videos.

In the studio, we had three different areas - one with a sofa and a green screen, another with a blue wall and fireplace and finally a blank white wall with coloured lights. For the third location we used a dolly to create a tracking shot. We all had a go at using the dolly. The person operating the dolly is called the 'dolly grip.'

In order to cut the video, we went to the edit suite and Matt taught us two methods for editing the lip syncing clips :

1. Use the snare, which plays before the song starts, in order to sync up the lip movements with the song.
or
2. Use the playback person (who was shown at the beginning of all the clips), match up the soundtrack with the same numbers

Our group chose to use the first method as we thought it would be easier and quicker. Each of us took turns to edit to make sure that everyone got some experience in this type of editing.

I found this task very enjoyable and it was great to see everyone's finished products at the end - even though we had all used the same footage, everyone's video looked unique and each group had put their own spin on it. If I was to do this task again I would make sure that when filming we got a good variety of shots and backgrounds so that we had more to choose from when it came to editing.

Below is the finished product !

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