Lip Syncing

In preparation for the filming and editing of my music video, I completed a lip syncing task to demonstrate my ability to edit a music video in time with a backing song in order to create a video that looks as though it is legitimately being sung by the actor(s). 

The song that I chose was Gotye's 'Somebody That I Used To Know' and it contains an actor and an actress to play the roles of the two vocalists. I myself am in the music video and I found it challenging at first to lip sync in time with the song however after the first day I realized that if I actually were to sing the song aloud whilst the song is being played, then it would look more convincing when the clip is muted and the backing track added on to the clip. 

Myself and Talia (the actress in the video) remain relatively still in the video in an attempt to replicate the actual music video for the song, to an extent. Filming was relatively hard due to the fact that neither of us have any acting or lip-syncing experience; this resulted in many outtakes of us laughing or coming in at the wrong time. Moreover, I had to set up the shot by placing one of my friends of the same height in the shot, then I would press play on the camera with the monitor facing myself so I could see the shot, and I would take his place - this ensured that the shot was framed as I had intended... My friend was too shy to actually lip sync for me hence my role as actor and director as well as the editor of the video.

Ultimately, I believe that this project was extremely effective in developing my filming and editing skills, specifically for a music video as I now feel prepared to film my actual music video - I will tell the actor to sing aloud, over the song playing from my phone in the background, as this will ensure that he is exactly in time with the music video; this is vital as if it isn't perfectly in time, then the lip-syncing will look unconvincing as it will look like he is lip-syncing rather than actually singing the song.