1. The group chose to film a lip syncing video to the song "A Team" by Ed Sheeran after accidentally filming over their initial footage of "You Belong With Me" by Taylor Swift.
2. They filmed each member lip syncing to their parts of the song individually against a glass background without much camera movement.
3. Editing was difficult without audio, but they were able to cut the clips and arrange the lip syncing in time to the music by reading lips, though it was challenging at times.
2. What Happened?
• We started of by choosing a song, at the
beginning we were going to do a song by Taylor
Swift called ‘You Belong With Me’
• We started filming around school, doing
tracking shots with us lip singing and the camera
following us and then going through doors and
stuff.
• We then re-winded to see if we got everything we
needed and we decided to film a bit more to have
extra shots to work with.
3. ...
• Unfortunately we didn't then forward it back so
we filmed over everything we just filmed and we
only realised once we uploaded the tape onto
adobe premiere system.
• So we then decided to just do a simple video
without walking around school and making it
more difficult to edit.
• Therefore we would be focusing more on the lip
synching.
4. ... Change of song – NEW START
• The new song we decided on doing is Ed
Sheeran – A Team
• We all sang half of the song with a glass
background behind us and we all stood in
around the same place.
• This was a fast and easy approach to the task
and it focused on the main point – Lip synching.
• We had the music and lyrics behind the camera
so when each person had their turn they could
sing along.
5. Filming...
• We all swapped whilst filming we filmed one
person each.
• There was not much movement in the camera we
kept it in one place so we focused on lip
synching.
• There was equal sharing with the filming.
• It took us about an hour doing a couple of shots
of each other so we’d have a lot to work with
when editing.
6. Editing...
• We had issues with uploading our footage onto
the adobe premiere system as we filmed in HD
which we need to remember NOT to do when we
do the real thing.
• So Mr yadgar uploaded it onto his computer as
its the only computer that takes HD footage.
• However along the way we lost our sound but
still had the moving images.
7. ...
• So we uploaded it onto the system and then using
the RAZOR tool cut up each clips separating each
persons clip.
• We all then went to the editing suite when we had
frees.
• I spent around 3 hours editing, as we were in a
group of 5 we all had to make sure we all had equal
editing time.
• I found it quite difficult without having the sound of
what we filmed because u had to read the lips and
sometimes it was a bit hard to see which part of the
song it was.
8. ...
• There was enough footage to work with and i placed
some of them in the correct places which takes a lot
of concentration and patience to get it in the exact
correct place.
• Its good that we took extra bits of us having fun so
we could place them in the parts where the lyrics
aren't being said.
• After we got everything in the right place we then
put transitions and effects which is quite long and
difficult to play around with as there’s so much you
can do
9. The good? The bad? How it went overall?
• The positive part is I believe we ended up with a
good lip synching task that did fit the criteria of the
task we were given
• The negative part is that yes, we did do some things
wrong with filming over our footage in the first song
we choose and then filming in HD in the final song
we choose, BUT we learn from our mistakes and will
know not to do it in the real thing.
• Overall it went well editing skills are better and now
had experience with lip synching so will be ready for
the real thing.
