As you might imagine, this involved making a quick music video and trying to lip sync it correctly. Firstly, we had to choose a song that we all knew the words to. Bohemian Rhapsody, of course. Then we filmed it at locations around school, and finally we created a video on Premiere Pro.
This is one of the videos our group created, it experiments a bit with transitions and intercutting different scenes, but it's primary purpose is to get us used to lip syncing.
What I learnt
Do the full song at each location
Personally I would already have done this, but because Bohemian Rhapsody is such a long song, and we as a team were so lazy, we instead did a different part of the song at each location. What I learnt from this task however, is that there needs to be lots of cuts throughout the video in order to make it visually appealing. This is a convention stated in the Andrew Goodwin theory. To do this, not only do you need lots of locations etcetera, etcetera, but you need to be able to cut back to those locations throughout the song. Take this location:
Personally I would already have done this, but because Bohemian Rhapsody is such a long song, and we as a team were so lazy, we instead did a different part of the song at each location. What I learnt from this task however, is that there needs to be lots of cuts throughout the video in order to make it visually appealing. This is a convention stated in the Andrew Goodwin theory. To do this, not only do you need lots of locations etcetera, etcetera, but you need to be able to cut back to those locations throughout the song. Take this location:
We only filmed the opening paragraph of the song in this location, and due to the nature of the shot, it had to be shown as one. What we should have done, is film the whole song at this location, and film it several times to get different camera angles etc. Thus, we would be able to keep cutting back to this location throughout the song in order to make the video more visually appealing.
Make sure to know the words exactly and how they are said
In the picture on the left, I have just finished miming the word 'me', however, the song holds that note for a lot longer than I did. Thus for the rest of the scene we are left with a picture of me and brad smiling at the camera whilst Freddie continues to sing. This just emphasizes the need to rehearse when doing my final video. You can't lip sync if your lips aren't moving.
In this shot we agreed that if we didn't already know, and if there was no audio, we wouldn't be able to make out what Brad was saying. This has lead me to believe that the singer should always say their lines as if they were actually singing, and accentuate their mouth and body movements to accentuate this.
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