Reflecting Back On The AS Year - Lip Sync Assignment

As we approached the end of the AS year we began to prepare for the A2 year by starting some assignments that would help us with the main task of A2. We started our lessons by having a tutorial on how to edit a music videos in Final Cut Pro. After which we were all put into groups and allocated a 80's song, which we had to lip sync. We had to then film it in 6 different camera angles (known as base tracks) from start to finish allowing us more things to work with once we got to editing. The tutorial we had learnt from the media technicians came in to practise. One thing I noticed when editing music videos was that I had to use the razor blade tool much more often than with film editing, similarly there were a lot more layers used one on top of the other with the music video and you had to be very careful to place them correctly with the black arrow pointing down rather than sideways as it split the whole thing. Perhaps the hardest part was learning to lip sync in FCP and finding the right beat to place a marker and editing the clips in such way that the movement of our lips synced well with the song.  Unfortunately my group and I we're not able to complete the task as we didn't have enough time to edit the shots we filmed to a suitable standard.