Lip Syncing Practise

When practicing lip syncing, we decided to go into a group and each have ago of filming and performing. This gave us a good idea of all aspects of lip syncing and  it allowed us to play around with different genres of music.

The first song that we tried was 'Broke' by Hannah Grace. When filming this we found it easy to film as we wasn't focusing on complex camera work. We used a close up of my mouth and shoulders in this practice shot. As this was our first time being filmed we found it quite hard to concentrate and we all found it embarrassing. We practiced the lip syncing before we picked our final song this helped us to become more confident around each other when performing. The editing of this first shot was tricky as the lip movement wouldn't match with the song. From this experience we have learnt to take a number of shots before we actually starting to edit the final music video.







The second and third tries of lip syncing we decided to try group lip syncing. Doing this enabled us to gain the skills for a duet song meaning that when picking a song we will know that we have the skills to use one for our final music video. 

We chose the song 'Love Is An Open Door' from Frozen. We chose this as we thought that it was more upbeat and would challenge our skills even further. From these shots we found that the change in rhythm and pace helped us as we found that the up beat songs are easier to lip sync. 

This time around we filmed many shots which allowed us to get the lip syncing more precise than the first time. We found when editing this song it was easier to get our lips completely in sync with the song.  We all took turns in doing different things during the task and found that after a few takes the people that were performing preferred it rather than filming. This made us realise what roles we would like to take when making our music video. We all have now gained skills on lip syncing. We also learnt to make the person fit the voice of the singer. For example, Vanessa played a man as there were no males available but in our final music video we will be use to fit the artist and the voice correctly.