In this lesson we practiced lip synching to Glee’s version of Journey’s song ‘Don’t Stop Believing’. Practicing lip synching is essential when producing a music video as the actors that you use need to be able to mime and sing along in time to the song. It is used to make it appear as though the actors have musical ability despite the fact that they’re not professional singers.
Our class split into two groups and whilst one performed, the other recorded them and vice versa. We set up 5 cameras on tripods. I found that the more practice I had, the more easier I found it to lip sync along to the song when we recorded it in class to observe how well we performed. We watched the playback of the recordings that we took to identify where we performed at our weakest and our strongest i.e. we could determine whether we found it hard to sing along and dance at the same time or whether we couldn’t mime along to the lyrics in time.
The experience also allowed us to familarise ourselves with the technical equipment involved in recording. This is so we could gain a better understanding of how to use it for when we produce our own music video. The recordings will also be edited on the Apple Macs using specialist software, which enables us to practice editing and editing techniques for when we edit our actual music video. Overall, it was very fun to do! Look out for the video coming soon, but in the mean time check out our pictures below!
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