Lip Sync Tutorial-Planning

The lip sync tutorial as given away by the title taught me how to sync a soundtrack to the movements of someones lips who is miming the same song.

 To begin our preliminary we first had to shoot some footage for the soundtrack. Our given soundtrack was "He's the greatest dancer" by Sister Sledge. We used a variation of shots, some shots of the shoot are shown below.

We used a Close Up of Hannah to convey the fact that she is the lead and the main character and therefore is the narrator and participant.

We used a Medium Shot to clearly show that Japhet is the greatest dancer mentioned in the song.

We used another Close Up to show that she met the man so it fitted in with the normality-problem-solution narrative structure.

Looking at our preliminary I am proud of it as it does fit the late 70's disco theme with the coloured lighting and natural yet posed footage. The mention of the disco within the lyrics also fits the footage we shot as it is shot in the dark with a splash of red lighting which would replicate a disco in this era.

The new skills that I acquired and new tools that I learnt to use through doing this are simply learning how to match the mouth movement to the soundtrack and adding/editing/aligning markers. The markers weren't particularly hard it was just where to put them that was time costing.

Editing in a music video is different to that of a title sequence of a thriller. The differences are:

Timing- the cuts are generally made to the beat rather than randomized.

Cutting- the cuts are generally done between a few bases as in the song is shot fully through a few times in different locations at different angles with different costume and then cut accordingly.