Wednesday 7 October 2015

Research and Planning: Lip-syncing Sample Exercise (2)

Lip-syncing Sample Exercise

Initially, in order to check our ability to:
  • operate a camera 
  • lip-sync accompanied by music in the background 

We decided to do a test of the the song we are going to choose for our music video. We also did this to determine if we would need to use certain lighting or sit with ambient, natural light, and even then what layout we would go for (our actress in the middle of the screen, or the right/left sides of the camera. We ultimately found no differences between lighting and no lighting so decided to just simply stick with general, natural lighting. This could have been because the area we decided to film in, an open courtyard was well lit.

For this video, Lia lip-syncs to the song of "Feeling Myself" by Nicki Minaj, featuring Beyonce.





"Change the game with that digital drop,

know where you was when that digital drop,

I stop the world.

*beat* *beat*

Male or female it makes no difference,

I stop the world,

World: stop. Carry on."




The problems that we will encounter during the music video filming are varying. We have to take into account the environmental effects on our hearing of the music and eyesight so we can focus on the camera and film a good shot. Another problem will be the timing of the high definition, original song file to Lia's lip syncing, which might be too fast or too slow. As it was too fast pre-editing, we used the slow motion and speed up function in order to match it perfectly, so that would solve our problem.

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