Lip Syncing

In our Lip Syncing Project we got given a song of a certain artist and then we had to go out and record some footage to make a music video. The main objective for this project was to edit our recording exactly in time with the music. This was practice for our making of the real music video. To start off with got given our song which was "weekend in new England" but we then asked if we could change this to "Mandy". Once we had our song we thought it would be a good idea to put the song onto a portable device so that we could listen to the song and how the tune goes because we did not have a ipod lead we recorded it to my phone which did not have a great sound quality but we could make out what it was saying. We then went to Alexendra park round the back of the college and then we started to film our lip syncing. We new that the song was a slow boy band song plus we had all boys in our group so we decided to go with a boy band type video. One of our chorus we recorded was us standing by the side of each other, you could say that we took this from boy bands like westlife and boyzone, so we did use intertextuality. Most of our shots were mid shots which were used in the chorus but we did have one wide shot of a tree to open and close our video.

Later in the day once we had got all of our shots we then moved onto editing. In editing we had to make slugs which would help us to keep in time with the song and so we could then put our clips into the track much easier. While making the song we came up with a problem as we could not get rid of the sound we recorded in the clips, but we then realised that you have to lock each track of sound or video, so once we locked the video footage we could then delete.