Prelim planning/brainstorms

- When I was first given the task of the lip synch prelim, I began to write up this note page where I viewed various music videos to see what shots are used. The time we were given to complete is was quite limited and so was the location as we only had 6 hours.

- This was a problem for me in AS media when I filmed my thriller prelim. I was overthinking and attempted making things more difficult for myself. I learnt from that process that with filming and many other things 'less is more'. I remembered this as I planned the lip synch task and kept it simple, therefore meaning I can spend more time editing and making it seem legitimate.

This is the lyrics sheet in which I assigned the right lyrics to who is singing (Me or Ben)

Prelim mindmap

- My mindmap is the next stage from the first, rational ideas of my brainstorms. I begun envisioning what I want in shots and how things would look through the camera. To keep my thoughts organised, I look to use mindmaps to state clearly each sections of what needs to be thought of.

Prelim storyboard

This is the final process of preparation for filming, the storyboard. Most of the initial ideas from the brainstorms and mindmap have been finalised onto the storyboard. The shots that we have used in the video have all been portrayed.

Beginning with the close up of the lips had been changed when we filmed it. I found out that lighting on the lips can be hard for how much time we had to complete it so the shot changed to a close up of the face in the final peice.

The rest of the diagrams were all included. I also stated on the storyboard that the lyrics correspond to each singer, being David bowie and Mick Jagger. Each correspond to who is singing what at what time. I allocated myself the part of Mick Jagger with my filming partner for the task Ben to play the part of David Bowie. I feel in the videos that involve collaborations that the parts sung by a different artist must be highlighted.

Lip Synch Prelim task

Evaluation:

As an introduction to our new A2 Media course, we were given the task to record and edit a small music video. We were only given a verse and chorus to lip synch to and the whole meaning behind it was to discover how hard the process of lip synching actually is. 6 hours was our time limit to get the task completed. I can confirm now that I understand just how hard lip synching is.

- Filming in a public location is hard anyway with ambient sounds, however when you are lip synching lyrics from a song, it gets even harder.

There must be someway that you can hear the track being played to you at a clear and loud volume. This isn't always easy to achieve.

- Learning the track must be done as well. It tends to be that singers facial expressions adapt to what note they are singing, whether it'd be at a high or low pitch.

Knowing this and when to do it at the right times is quite a skill to execute on camera. This means I need to choose talented actors for my real music video.

- The editing side of lip synching also isn't that easy. All other audio but the actual track must be deleted so the track is playing behind the video.

However, getting pieces of raw footage captured on your camera and putting the lip synch to the music is hard to do, requires a bit of luck! It is like a jigsaw of all the different scenes, lyrics and lip synching to put together as one.

- This can be hindered if the skill of lip synching on camera isn't done well, making editing so much harder.

- I figured on my task that it is best to get things filmed in order instead of coming back to scenes, which I did. It is hard to interpret what is being lip synched on video without any audio so following the lyrics word for word and line for line should help as a technique.