https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JnM2X_TuVFU&feature=youtu.be
Lip-syincing refers to when the actor/actress pretend to be singing along with the lyrics rather than actually singing the song. This helps the producer of music videos to be able to cut between shots, matching the singer's mouth with the lyrics in which will help our coursework by making it easier for us to match the mouth with the lyrics, making editing much easier in the studio.
SHOOTING DAY
On the shooting day we were assigned into 3 groups with 3 different stations which we can film in. Each station has a camera, a tripod, a playback manager and a set prop ready to be shot. I was assigned to be the floor manager where I had to make sure everybody was doing what they were supposed to be doing as well as telling the camera-people from each station which kind of shot we were taking and when to start/stop. It was a hard role to take as the class is usually very noisy and I had to shout a couple of times to get their attention but it was good practice. I had to give instruction such as: quiet on set, sound rolling, camera rolling... ACTION! I also had to take role of a camera-man which I enjoyed the most as well as being the actor lip syncing in the video.
Time-code is one of the most important thing in music video. It is the thing which keeps everything in time and make it much easier for the editor to edit the music video.
I learned many things from this task, mainly about how a music video should be shot and how time-code works. This prepare me for the real shoot in the upcoming month in which will be my real coursework.
EDITING DAY
On the editing day, our shooting groups were divided into 2 more separate group, making it around 2-3 people in the group. We were taught about how to match time-code of each different shots which makes the editing much easier and makes the continuity much simpler to follow. The main difference between editing a music video and editing the A1 thriller is that music video requires you to always match the time code as the mouth has to be exactly the same time as the lyrics of the song otherwise the video will look very amateur. Time code is still one of the most important thing in music video editing, but if it wasn't there then me and my group still found a way around it by putting all the videos to start at the same place and cut it from there.
Finally, the lip-sync activity has been very useful for me for preparing me for the real shoot as it taught me how a music video should be shot including the order of shots, different angles we can use, how to edit a music video properly and how a time-code works.
