Lip syncing practise

To practise and get an insight of what lip syncing is actually like we used two member of our group to test it out. It showed us that it was quite difficult to get the timing right so that the lips matched up with the actual song. But this was fairly easy to edit as whilst we were filming we played the song so that they knew the timings of the song, so when we edited in the original music, there was little editing needed to be done.

The difficulties that were shown whilst carrying out our practise exercises, was that the syncing looked too forced and fake, due to over pronouncing and moving the mouth too much, this made it look very fake and clear to see that they weren't actually singing the song. But after we practised it more and more, they became more natural. However if this happens in the real music video and the actor is miming the words too much, then we can get them to sing through the song so that they wont feel the need to make it look real, because they will be actually singing and we will just silence the video when we play the music over it.

Another problem we may encounter is the confidence in front of the camera. This is because even though the two people we used were very confident girls, when put in front of the camera they became less confident and found it much harder to act natural and feel comfortable whilst being recorded, so if the future actor we choose for our music video struggles to be as confident as we need her to be then this would be a very big problem. To solve it we could get them to just practise a lot in front of the camera before we start filming what we need and do whatever they need to feel comfortable. For example if they don't like us watching whilst she lip syncs then we would face a different direction, as this would make her feel better and overall perform better.

However this exercise has helped us learn how to position our actor in the camera and what angles look best in different locations, because as you can see, the girls weren't directly in front of the camera they were actually at the side of the shot because it made it look less basic which has already helped us gain a better idea of what is best for our official video.