Lip Synching Task

We were given the task by our teacher to film ourselves lip-synching to a song of our choice, and then try to edit the footage that we got, in Final Cut, to get it in time with the soundtrack itself.

Here is our finished product:

Firstly, we had to choose our song. For this choice, we had to make sure both of us knew the words otherwise it wouldn't look too good. We had found this song a while back and we both like this song quite a lot, which in this case was quite handy.

From here, we had to decide how we should film the different sections of our lip sync video. We decided on doing a clean run through from start to end to begin with, so that we could pick out certain sections of the footage that were able to fit to the soundtrack. After we did this, we then had to decide on a variety of other shots to include within the video, so that we could keep our audience interested throughout. I decided that we could have sections of myself miming the song and then piece both sections together in order for it to look like there was another artist sing as well as myself and my partner.

Once all of the footage had been recorded, it was time to edit it all together. Firstly, we imported all the footage from iMovie into Final Cut. We then transferred the main section of footage onto the timeline on Final cut. Then came the tricky part. We had to sync the soundtrack and the footage together first before we added any other layer of footage to the timeline. This was the hardest part of the task, simply because we had to 'guess' roughly how much footage we had to cut so that our miming of the song was perfectly in time with the artist's voice on the soundtrack. After this was done, it was then just a simple job of removing sections of the footage that were not needed and replacing them with other footage that we wanted to include. All we had to do after everything was in place was to add any effects that we also wanted to include.