Lip Syncing task

I recently completed a task in lip syncing, wherein I chose a song that I felt I confidently knew the lyrics for and proceeded to mime the song in front of the mac's camera. This exercise was intended to teach us the difficulties of lip syncing and also prepare us for the process of editing together the performance with the lyrics.

At first I chose a video with the lyrics of my song so that I would be able to hear the song and read the words as I went just in case I had any difficulties with the words. I had chosen to lip sync the song "All I need" by 'Within Temptation' as this is a song that I am very fond of and I'm sure that I know the lyrics well enough to accurately lip sync to them. I decided to do two takes showing me at different angles but with no incidental shots as I felt that generally they would be inappropriate based on the nature of the song. I then converted the audio from the same video I used for filming into an audio track and put it along with the footage into final cut I proceeded to sync the audio with the imagery and moved the footage onto different tracks and cut out the parts of the 1st track I felt were not as good as some of the shots I had in my 2nd lot of footage.

I think that overall the filming went as well as could be expected and the results were fairly good as I did sync with the words quite well. This meant the the editing process was also much more successful and in fact the end result showed decent syncing with the words and showed good syncing with the two different pieces of footage. I think that this activity has helped me a lot with preparing me for the actual coursework that I will soon be producing.

The main difficulty of the exercise was getting past my shy nature and actually performing the song even just to the mac. However I was able to overcome this and film the song twice. The other main issue was ensuring that the footage was in sync with the audio and cutting away from one footage track to the other at the appropriate time.