Lip Syncing Exercise

We created some lip syncing videos, as practice for when we film our music video. We decided to film two to highlight the difference between lip syncing song vs rapping.

The Internet - Under Control: Lip Sync

This is the chorus of Under Control, the song we're planning to film our music video to. We felt it was important to get some experience with lip syncing before filming.

The chorus itself is quite slow which made lip syncing fairly easy to do. The technique we used was playing the song out loud and lip syncing to that; when it came to editing we matched the music to the video, which didn't take too long. When filming in the locations we plan to, especially London Underground and Camden, it might prove difficult to do so as the location is loud which means listening to the track will be hard. This is something we can't do anything about for now, as it depends on how busy the location is when we arrive. One idea is to use speakers when filming in loud locations, but then it might be difficult to place them out of shot during filming. I've noticed that I found it difficult to look directly at the camera when filming, which is something I'll have to improve on when we actually film as it's crucial that in music videos there are shots where the audience can clearly identify the artist and therefore build a relationship with them, which is a theory Andrew Goodwin states. 

Overall, I found lip syncing to this relatively easy, which gives me hope for when we film. 

Nicki Minaj ft. Beyonce - Feeling Myself: Lip Sync 

This is the chorus to Feeling myself, we chose this song to highlight how different it is lip syncing to a fast paced rap compared to a song. 

The chorus is fairly fast, but I didn't find it too difficult to rap to, I found that it was a lot easier to lip sync at the camera compared to Under Control. 

There was many challenges we faced as this was the first time I had ever lip-synced on camera. We decided to play the song from my phone which sat next to me out of frame; this worked as we were alone, but when filming in Camden which will most likely be busy - it might prove difficult to use this method when filming the music video as the background noise might be too loud to hear the music. Another challenge we faced was the weather conditions, it was quite windy when we filmed which wasn't too much of a problem but again when filming in a busy location if the weather isn't that good such as rain or wind, this could have an adverse affect on our filming and delay us. Although there is no real way we can control the weather to suit us when filming; we can plan our filming schedule so that if it does happen to rain, we can film some shots inside and wait for the weather to improve. We have the benefit of creating a conceptual music video which means that we've decided not to have a set narrative but rather aesthetically pleasing shots that all together create the similar feeling of the music.