Skills learnt from lipsync tutorial.

During the weeks before the summer break my I started a project to prepare me for the work we are doing in A2 media studies. The project started with a tutorial in which we started the creation of a small and basic music package. The tutorial showed us an effective and useful way to use final cut pro and various angles of camera shots of a band performing a song which we also had an mp3 file of.

Marisa ( a college technician) showed us how to do this effectively and taught us steps to put a music video together synchronising the music and the video.

By seleceting the MP3 track we would use for the music in the video we could put a marker by pressing M when the singer said a certain word.

We then did the same thing with the videos and put a marker in when the singer said the same word in them. This allowed us to then move the videos on to the timeline and put them in line with the audio.

Then using the ‘double razor blade’ tool we cut parts of the tracks in to pieces on the beet, then removed strips of the video to create a dynamic and interesting video with multiple shots.

Once I started I found the lip syncing was really quite easy, although I faced some difficulties while forgetting to take the sound off from the video tracks and got a weird overlapped sound, I also had difficulties cutting the track to the beat as I am terrible at finding the beat to music! :(

The hardest part by par was marking all the tracks at the same point as the markers were so precise that it would be very easy to mark a word too close to the end of it and end up with your tracks being totally out of sync at the end, but after a few attempts I found it quite easy and could notice the same pattern in the audio when the specific word was sung. 

In another of our lessons we filmed a member of our group lip syncing to the song ‘If I can’t have you’ by Yvonne Elliman. We filmed the girl singing the song three times all in different locations and I took responsibility in editing the video. When I took over editing it was really difficult to do as the track our ‘singer’ lip synced to was different to the MP3 we were using to create the film. Once I discovered this I found the correct track and used the technique we were taught in lesson one to sync all the film, we then cut it up on the beat. It was way more difficult than the first video we made because some parts of the film were not suitable for use and the issues with the Mp3 track slowed us down. I am fairly pleased with the end result as it is all in sync however the combination of unplanned camera work, dodgy choreography and not knowing the lyrics did cause some problems but has helped me know what to do for our final film!