Picking someone to lip-sync to any song is a difficult choice so we decided to do a 'tester day' in order to find out who had the right confidence and skills to pull off a long tiring day of lip-syncing and who would be ideal to pick for when we actually get round to choosing a song and lead singer.
On the shoot day, we had three cameras all in different positions: a tracking camera, a camera in front of a green screen and a low shot in front of a sofa. This made us use all of our different skills and also let us start to get used to the camera on tracks which is commonly used in music videos.
Here are some pictures of my friends Katie and Lulu performing in front of the cameras:
We all had to get in front of the camera and have a go at lip-syncing whilst the song was played through a speaker in the recording studio. We used an electric version of a clapperboard by using our teacher's iPad which also helped with setting and linking the times in unison when we were editing. It was helpful to have the start time on screen as this helped us get started in the editing process as we could link the time on the screen to the time on the editing bar. When we had shots without the clapperboard in, we used a significant moment in the song (in our case, a big bass drum noise) to sync everything together. It is useful to know how to edit things like this for when we start our own music videos for the A2 course.
Here is our finished video:
Overall, I felt the task was fairly successful as we learnt all of the basics for when we film and edit our own music video in the next academic year. I am also actually quite proud of everyone in my video and will be using them for my official video next year.
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