In the studio/Practicing filming music promos and lip syncing

On Tuesday morning, we had a block morning devoted entirely to media and practicing filming people lip syncing to the song 'Rather Be - Clean Bandit'. When we came into the studio, three different cameras were set up, all Sony NX5 but one on tracks so that we could have a go with tracking someone.

The three different cameras had different sets. So one had a green screen, one had a sofa set up with a wooden back drop and one had clear, see-through flats with colourful lights behind.



We got into three groups and between us, each camera we came to, we would take it in turns using and practicing with the cameras, being filmed etc.

I had a go both filming and being in front of the camera. It was good to get the experience of both because I now know what I'm doing for A2 and it was a good experience to practice in front of the camera so that if I had friends in A2 doing music vids and asked me I would be more comfortable to do it.

When editing all of our filmed bits, being able to see all the different sets made the video look very interesting and cool as they all contrasted. Making the music video was really interesting. We edited them on Final Cut Pro 7 on the Apple Mac computers. To keep the music video interesting and up beat to match the song, we had to keep the length of shots different. I also had to practice matching up the video with the song. The audio track of the song was pasted in Final Cut, and it was our job to pick and choose the bits of filming we wanted to use and to then match it up with the timing on the clapperboard in order to allow us to synchronise the videos with the audio track.

This is some filming me and my group did behind the filming of our little lip syncing/music video practice exercise... Credit to Toby for pasting it all together:



This is the Final Cut: