Lip Sync Technique

Music Video - First Lip Sync Task - It Was A Good Day (Ice Cube)

We started by choosing a song we could all lip sync to. We chose the song It Was A Good Day - Ice Cube. We chose this song because we could all lip sync to it as the words were not that complicated and the song was rather slow, which meant everyone could keep up. To create our music video we then went to our location and filmed the different camera angles. We found the song on a mobile and then held the camera whist filming. The person in the shot would lip sync to the music, which we would overlay with the real track throughout the editing process.

We then took the footage and uploaded it to Final Cut to start the editing the video. To create the music video we had to use the main technique of lining the sound from the camera shots, to the sound on the actual mp3 track. To do this we selected the sound wave display button at the bottom of the screen, which brought up the waves on the mp3 file.

we then created markers on the sound wave and uploaded the footage. The sound from the footage was then also marked at the same points and we then had to link up the markers from the footage with the video. This should have created a clear overlap, which would have meant the footage would be exactly on top of the sound at the correct points. However in some of our shots we did not put the mobile, with the m3 on next to the camera and therefore it was very difficult to match the sound to the video.