Lip Sync

Today I lip synced to the song "Dude Looks Like a Lady" by "Areosmith" in preparation for the creation of a music video that I am going to create with a group in the near future. The first process I went through was getting the lyrics to the song and making sure that I roughly knew how to mouth them. After I got the lyrics to the song I then took a shot of me lip syncing normally looking at the camera. Once I had completed my first take I then did an incidental take that could be cut up and inserted in the editing process to make the lip sync more enjoyable to watch.

After I had my two takes done it was time to move onto the editing process, the first thing I had to do was insert the music track into the time line, when the I had imported the track I then had to import my first take. When I finished importing my first take I had to line it up with the song and make sure that my mouth movements were in time with the singing in the song. The next process I went through was inserting my incidental take and also lining that up with the song on a second editing track. My original take was imported into a editing track that is automatically prioritised higher than the incidental track which means that when Final Cut plays it plays the first track opposed to both the first and second. To incorporate the incidental shots it means that I had to cut the first track so that the incidental track would automatically play when there was a break in the first track. Once I had everything editied the way I wanted I added a slow motion effect at then which helps signify the end of the song.