One Day Lip-Sync Project

For this task I had to record and edit a video of me and 2 other people lip syncing along to a song. The purpose of this task was to make sure we could effectively film for our own music video, and that we knew how to use the editing software and could edit film and audio together in sync with each other.

We started off with a short brief, so that we knew exactly what it was that we had to do and how long we had to do it. We were then given our song; the song our group received was ‘Ice Ice Baby’ by the rapper Vanilla Ice. As we didn’t have the equipment needed to put the mp3 file straight onto a phone or an mp3 player we recorded it from a computer onto a mobile phone so we had a track to play along to. We then printed off the lyrics to the song from a website so we could learn the words and could mime along.

We then went about filming for our music video. As the song was a rap track we thought we should find a run down and urban area to start filming. We went behind an old abandoned ice cream factory located near the college. This area featured a lot of graffiti and run down looking buildings, we thought this image would work well and fit in with the song. We then decided who would mime along to each part. George decided to mime along to the first verse so we filmed his part first. We set the camera up on a tri-pod pointing towards a wall with graffiti on it and we then stood so George was standing closer to the camera with the phone hidden in his pocket, miming along to the track with me and matt standing behind him on either side dancing to the track. When the chorus kicked in we all stayed in the same positions but we all joined in and sang along. We then set up the camera so it was pointing at a different wall with graffiti and filmed Matts verse with me and George dancing behind him. We then set up the camera so it was looking at a rundown building with some broken windows and I stood in front and did my verse with George and Matt dancing behind me.

After returning to the college to charge up the camera’s battery we went to the nearby park to film some more. We all filmed our parts again near a bench, and again but walking around with the camera following us around. We filmed our parts multiple times to make sure that we had plenty of shots to choose from when it comes to editing them all together. We also filmed some bits together for the ‘ice ice baby’ part, and the ‘word to your mother’ part. We also filmed ourselves walking around the park so we had some footage to fill in the instrumental parts of the song.

We then returned to the college and uploaded our footage onto final cut pro and went about editing it. First of all we put the original mp3 of the vanilla ice song onto the sound timeline and then muted the sound of the footage we filmed. We then started editing the footage together. Adding the clips of us singing or dancing during certain parts of the song, then cutting the clip and moving it so the clip is in sync with the song. We decided to edit our own verses ourselves so we all had experience with the software and got equal editing time. We added various effects to different clips such as changing the speed of certain clips and changing the colour set up of different clips. Once we had finished the initial editing we re-watched it to make sure it was all the clips were in sync with the music track and after some final tweaking we had our finished product.
Here is our lip sync project -

Overall I am happy with how the filming and the editing went as we didn't run into any real problems and the entire process went pretty smoothly. I am also happy with how the video turned out and I think that we made a high quality video given the time we had to film and edit it.