The syllabus tells us that for one of our preliminary tasks we have to lip sync to the first thirty seconds to a song of our choice. Jack and I decided to choose a popualr song by The Script called The Man Who Can't Be Moved'
This is a song that I am very familiar with, and I know all of the words to, so I imagined that it would be reasonably easy to do. We decided to do a narrative music video, meaning that a story was being told in the music video, and that the lyrics of the song matched what was happening on screen. So the song is about a man who is heartbroken, and wants the girl that he first saw in the street to wait for her just incase she was to ever come back. So we simply found a corner of the school playground, and decided that this would be where we would film. We then played the song through my phone and I 'mimed' along to it, but this turned out to be a lot more difficult that I first thought it would be, as I quickly learnt that you have to open your mouth much wider than necessary when miming otherwise it just looks like you're mumbling when you watch it back on the video camera. We then decided that the video would be made to look better if I was to sit down with cardboard on me to make me look 'homeless'. The photo below shows us in the filming process.
I had an idea that I thought would work really well for the final line of our clip, the lyrics sang "Got some words on cardboard, got your picture in my hand, saying if you see this girl can you tell her where I am". So I thought it would be a good idea to write "If you see this girl can you tell her where I am" on a piece of cardboard as I sang along to the lyrics. In hindsight, this probably wasn't a very good idea as it was really hard to sync the song with me miming each individual word. In terms of editing, it was extremely fiddly and time consuming, and this was only for a thirty second clip of a song, so editing the final product was going to take a very very long time. The video was put onto out Facebook (http://www.facebook.com/MitchellCooperProductions) and YouTube (http://www.youtube.com/user/MCProductions02) pages. The final product is shown below.
Overall, I was quite disappointed with this task and felt that we could have done a lot better than we did, so if we get the time, I would like us to try again with the lip sync task. The lip sync was appalling compared to some of the better ones that we have seen.
C x
This is a song that I am very familiar with, and I know all of the words to, so I imagined that it would be reasonably easy to do. We decided to do a narrative music video, meaning that a story was being told in the music video, and that the lyrics of the song matched what was happening on screen. So the song is about a man who is heartbroken, and wants the girl that he first saw in the street to wait for her just incase she was to ever come back. So we simply found a corner of the school playground, and decided that this would be where we would film. We then played the song through my phone and I 'mimed' along to it, but this turned out to be a lot more difficult that I first thought it would be, as I quickly learnt that you have to open your mouth much wider than necessary when miming otherwise it just looks like you're mumbling when you watch it back on the video camera. We then decided that the video would be made to look better if I was to sit down with cardboard on me to make me look 'homeless'. The photo below shows us in the filming process.
I had an idea that I thought would work really well for the final line of our clip, the lyrics sang "Got some words on cardboard, got your picture in my hand, saying if you see this girl can you tell her where I am". So I thought it would be a good idea to write "If you see this girl can you tell her where I am" on a piece of cardboard as I sang along to the lyrics. In hindsight, this probably wasn't a very good idea as it was really hard to sync the song with me miming each individual word. In terms of editing, it was extremely fiddly and time consuming, and this was only for a thirty second clip of a song, so editing the final product was going to take a very very long time. The video was put onto out Facebook (http://www.facebook.com/MitchellCooperProductions) and YouTube (http://www.youtube.com/user/MCProductions02) pages. The final product is shown below.
Overall, I was quite disappointed with this task and felt that we could have done a lot better than we did, so if we get the time, I would like us to try again with the lip sync task. The lip sync was appalling compared to some of the better ones that we have seen.
C x
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