Reflecting on the AS year: Lip Sync Tutorial

At the end of the AS year we were giving an introduction to A2 media this included a rough step by step guide to what we were going to be achieving in A2, therefore we examined music videos and looked at the conventions of the music videos, we were told to forget what we learnt editing wise as filming a thriller is different to a music video, for example the continuity isn't so important yet jump cuts and beat matching is a lot more familiar within music videos. The biggest convention we noticed was lips sync, on of the purposes of a music videos is to give the artist recognition and by having an artist on screen lip singing allows the audience to identify  the artist. 

My groups assigned song was 'Freak Out' by La Freak, we were given a camera and the period of one two lessons to record a person lip singing and then edit the music to match the footage we were told to include 6 different angels in music terms this is the base tracks, this is popular amongst editing music videos to allow footage to have movement. We considered the conventions of music videos and took some inspiration from videos we had watch, therefore we included a range of locations create a more exciting visual effect, as music videos are up beat and having a static piece of footage, wouldn't give the song justice. Props such as disco ball and disco lights, also to create a more exciting piece of footage. The person who had to lip sing sang one verse and the chorus's, after filming we uploaded the footage to Final Cut Pro, where we had to include the the audio and match the beat we used black arrows to signify this. this differed from making a thriller as the layout overlapped rather than sided up, by editing the base tracks  the persons lip singing the song showed continuity of the lyrics yet from different angles, it was important to get the timing correct otherwise the lip singing would look out of place and the lyrics wouldn't match the audio.