Dizzee Rascal music video exercise

Here is our finished video for our music video task.

Music video Lipsync Exercise

For our third exercise, we were asked to choose a song in groups of 3/4, not knowing what the song was at first. We were then told the song and asked to do a lipsync video in our groups.

I worked with Matt L, Alie, Mike and Kirk, and we were given Dizzee Rascal - Dance With Me. This was in my opinion the hardest song to do, as it was the fastest, had the most lyrics, and we had the longest period of the song to fill up compared to everybody else. However, this was a challenge but we thought having a good attempt was the best way to do it.

The pictures show stills from our lip syncing video, the lip sync timeline on Final Cut, and the markers we added to the song in order to lip sync correctly. We then had to find a location and were given 45 minutes to an hour to complete the task. We chose the woods outside and we then had to mime or 'lip sync' the words to the song, we could even sing it if we wanted to, as the original track had to go over the top anyway.

As a group, we found this extremely hard as we had to lip sync the words, which were very fastly spoken. In the end, I think we did a good job in terms of our completed video. This exercise really made you think about the importance of mise en scene, location, camerawork and editing in terms of a music video and how they affected the final outcome.

'You wanna what?' lipsync exercise

For our music video, the second exercise we done was to get the group to understand how lip syncing worked and how the video and sound merged together. We had a demonstration in class about how to lipsync on Final Cut, and it was explained what process you would go through in order to do it.

First, you would have to obviously upload all the footage. Then using the CD player track on the actual footage sound, you would find a part in the song which would be significant, for example a chorus or a particular word. Then, you would mute the CD player sound from the actual footage and add the audio track in.

Finding the same part of the song, eg the chorus, (Also showing the music wavelines) and marking it with a marker, would enable you to place the video and music together. Providing the video is lip synced or sung right, the track would match. You would then add other performances in and cut away unwated parts, enabling you to be able to cut from different angles, locations etc and different characters - this would make sure you had a correct lip synced video.

The video was just a starter exercise, but made sure I knew how to lip sync correctly and I learnt that the correct timing and lip syncing is effective is very important in terms of making a music video.