Lip syncing practise

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This is our lip syncing practise to Drake - Redemption. 

We used purchased Drake - Redemption from iTunes and used the software iMovie to edit the sound in and place the soundtrack to the correct time of which our artist (Ayo's) mouth was moving.

We chose to different locations which allowed natural lighting to come into place (lighting from the sun). We used natural lighting because this was our available lighting. (We tested the available lighting to see if it was sufficient for filming and it was).

What were the challenges of lip syncing? Was it difficult to be convincing?

While filming this lip syncing task the biggest challenge was the words not matching the mouth movement on the artist. We had to time the music perfectly when editing it in. It was difficult to be convincing when lip syncing because some words don't require your mouth to be open as much which makes it harder to try and work out what word is being said.


Should artists of different genres lip sync in different ways

Yes, genres like rock they will be more aggressive and body language would also come into place to get the lyrics across more.


How will you use this task to improve the planning and quality of your final music video?

Doing lip syncing practise has benefit my group a lot as we gained basic understanding of how to import the music and edit it to the correct timing. We will now expand this knowledge for our final music video trying our best to make it as realistic as possible which will require us to look at other factors which will affect the sound. If we are filming in an area where diegetic sound is being produced in our music video we can't have just the song playing and the lip syncing happening we would have to incorporate the diegetic sound as well to keep it as realistic as possible.