Lip Sync Task

Today we head down to the studies to have a practical lesson on shooting music videos and lip syncing. To be able to accurately sync video with music in non real time the actor or artist must follow the soundtrack previously recorded and attempt to replicate the lyrics of the song in time with the music, this is known as lip syncing. So what this means is that when we come to the editing stage the editors can quickly and accurately sync the pre-recorded music to the lyrics.

In the seminar we began the track with a clapper board, so we can sync all the film clips up accurately as the clapper would play 5 or so seconds before the song would begin. All the actors in the piece were my fellow students. Here is what we created in this short session.

I was pared up with another student in the editing suite who myself and her did not gel well together and took us a while to finish the project, on average the other videos created by my fellow students lasted around 40 seconds while ours was just over 20 seconds which highlights the time consuming process of syncing up the audio to video. Its a slow and boring process, I believe we get bored when our brains aren't stimulate therefore we get some sort of discomfort to make us seek stimulation, this is the same with problem solving. If your not problem solving you will get bored quickly and that is what happened with this project, it was just matching up numbers of each film frame, which did not make this a fun task. However I learn't a bit about the general process. Although when it comes to it I will most likely use software like Pluraleyes to sync up the footage to video.