Reflecting back on the AS year: Lip Sync Tutorial

At the end of the AS Year we were introduced to the interesting and exciting topic that is MUSIC VIDEOS :) *cheers loudly and claps*

The first thing that we had learnt to do was how to edit lip syncing in time with the music. This was taught to us by none other than our Media Technician Micky...

We were given a music video of a band performing their song in different perspectives, such as from the back; the side; the front and showcasing the different players like the guitarist; bassist and drummer. However most of the footage was of the lead singer. Also we were given the audio of the track in which the band were performing.

Firstly, we chose the different videos of the footage that we wanted. These were slightly longer clips, which needed to be shortened in order to keep the audience entertained and to have the conventional jump cuts that all music videos have. These videos needed to be muted as we only use the sound from the audio.

A master shot (base track) of the lead singer was used to give the video a structure, so from there we made base markings on every fourth beat in order to cut to a different shot on every fourth beat and for the lip sync to remain accurate in all places because the markings were made from the very beginning of the video in line of the same place at the beginning of the audio.

The presentation of the video on the timeline was completely different to how the timeline looked in our thriller sequences. This is because there are more cuts and the footage is generally very short and rigid. I also learned that timing in the lip sync is clinical because if there is even a slight off beat it can look very messy and can be noticable with the audio.