Lip sync Tutorial.

We learnt how to cut and edit the original song together with the video. To do this, we had to mark a certain word in the song, mark the same word in the video and then match the two points together. To make this a lot easier, instead of doing it by ear, we opened the wave form of the audio of the video and the song. This was somewhat difficult as if wrong, then the video would be out of sync with the song. We did this with all the clips that included lip syncing from all the different angles they were shot from.


There is quite a big difference between editing music videos and short films. Music videos can easily have more cuts than a short film as with music videos, the amount of cuts depends on the pace of the song and how fast or slow they want the pace to be. With quicker and more cuts, the pace will be faster and could involve a lot of different aspects. With slower and less cuts, the pace will be slower. As this was a disco song, we decided to make it not too fast, but not slow, it was a medium pace that showed the singing and dancing, two very important aspects in disco music.
The concept for music videos, can be completely unrelated to the song in a literal sense but be telling the story, it it's own form. Like in the uncensored, "Kids In love" music video by Mayday Parade. The video seems very unrelated to the song but there it shows there is a much deeper meaning to the song and the video.


The way in which you editing for a music video is also very different. For a music video, we were advised to film a minimum of 3-4 base tracks. Instead of cutting down every clip, all the tracks are layered on top of each other and once they are matched with the song; having them all on top of each other, makes it easier and allows us to have everything ready in place so that we don't have to figure out where the clips go go in song. This makes more sense than individually doing it as they all start  from the same point (The beginning of the song). We would lock the sound in place so that it wouldn't move while we were editing the rest of the video. We then marked the point on the time to the beat of the music, in this case it was a 4/4 beat that we marked it to. After this, we simply had to watch through and decide what clips we wanted to stay and which ones we wanted to go. 

We used lots of close ups of the characters. The singer played by myself, and the "the greatest dancer" played by Japhet. The use of lots of close ups in a music video serve some of the main purposes as they do in films. To show emotion, to identify the characters, and to show what they are doing. With music videos where the singer is actually in the video singing, it allows the audience to feel closer to the artist and when the artist is singing directly into the camera, to make the audience feel like they are singing it to them.






As you can see from the pictures below, we used different angles. We had the advantage of being able to control the colour and intensity of the lighting. We used red as it helps create a disco club feeling. Also, the use of "The greatest dancer" also helps create a disco club feeling as there wouldn't be just one person a in disco club, and although there would be more than two people in a club, it shows the focus is on the only these two characters and that she is only focused on the greatest dancer.