Lip Sync Practise

Girls Aloud - Sound of the Underground

Evaluation
1. What do you think you learnt from the Lip Sync workshop? It could be specific things about making a music video OR general things about the production process.
What I learnt most with the lip sync practise is that you really have to not be embarassed to perform and lip sync because it will show in the performance and will not look right when it comes to edit the song to the images. In the video, Laura and I tried to lose all inihibitions and just enjoy making the video, and I think that it really shows in the final edit. However, I have learnt that you really need to learn the words as there is a rather obvious bit in the video when neither Laura or I knew the words and therefore we had to use a clip that covered up best that we didn't know the words, but it is still rather obvious.

I also learnt to shoot the whole song more than once. In our lip sync practice we performed the whole song with both of us twice and the whole song individually once each as well. This left us with loads of footage to choose from, and meant that there is equal coverage of both of us in the video.

2. For you, what was the best bit?
My favourite bit, despite the initial embarassment of dancing around the drama room to Girls Aloud and singing along, was filming the lip sync because we ended up having a lot of fun and attempting to make up a routine in about 5 minutes and then remember it when we had to perform, at points in the video it is obvious we forgot. My favourite bit of the video is the shot of me just spinning around in the back randomly when I ran out of ideas for dancing, and also of the chorus parts of Laura and I dancing together.

3. How do you think the work we have done will impact on your group project?
The lip sync practise could be quite useful for when we come to do our group work as we are all willing to be in our music video and we can use these lip sync videos to see who is confident, who is good at lip syncing, who has good ideas of what to do with the camera and what kinds of songs people are keen to do from their song choice, although I think we are pretty sure we won't be doing a Girls Aloud song...