Lip syncing practice

Lip-syncing practice

It was hard to lip sync for the first time in front of the camera as we found that the individual needs to feel extremely confident in order to make their lip movements seem more believeable. This is a video of my group and I practicing our lip syncing. The reason behind this was to learn how to move our lips to the lyrics in a naturalistic way that would ultimately make the audience believe we was singing the lyrics ourselves. 

We found it hard because of the speed of the song. Due to it being slow, we found that it was increasingly difficult to use body and lip movements in a way that would amplify our confidence across to the audience to ultimately make the music video look believable.

The main problems we endured were finding confidence to perform in front of the camera. Therefore to overcome this we found that making the individual feel as comfortable as possible was a key element in making the music video as good as it could be. We did this by giving the actress their instructions on what to do in the video, but when we began to record we wouldn't stare at them. For instance we would either look into the camera or look away; but never directly at the individual - this would help us avoid laughing or messing up. After the shot was finished, we would analyse our video and come up with ideas and solutions on how we could improve.