Lip sync project

The idea

for our lip sync project we were put into groups of four and each given a song to make a short music video for as practise for our final videos, we were each given 1 day to complete our lip sync video. my group was; me, Frazer ,Luke and Rob, unfortunately Rob was ill and did not appear in our video, but we managed without him. The theme for our form group was songs by Barry Manilow. The song our group was given originally was 'Weekend in new england'. we discussed video ideas for this song, but eventually decided we would rather do the song 'Mandy'.

Filming

When it came down to filming. We decided to go up to the park behind the college, because the park offers a range of spectacular views and the perfect set for our romantic, passionate lip sync. we decided that it would be most effective if each of us had one verse each to sync. we opened up the video sequence with an establishing shot of the big oak tree in the middle of the park. it then focuses on luke who is sitting against the tree as he begins to sing the song. we felt that this image was effective to capture the mood of the song. i then appear from behind the tree whilst miming the lyrics and to give look a reasuring hug. The rest of the sequence is a mixture of panning and still shots with us miming the song through out. The sequence ends with us running into the distance and then finnishes on the shot of the tree.

summary

I feel that our sequence went very well becuase as well as being entertaining and funny, we also mannaged to capture the emotion beind the lyrics of the song. i think that the shots we used and our post production ideas worked effectively. if i did the project again i would take more time to learn the words.


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