Sonny and Cher exercise evaluation

In this post I will be evaluating my second lip syncing exercise to see if I have improved from the  last one that I done.

So to film this lip sync exercise we done the same as before and done different takes so we had a variety of footage to use. 1 shot was positioned on both singers and 2 shots were positioned from the side to see just one singer, there was a dolly shot that moved around the singers and the last shot was a low angle looking up at both. We used the same equipment (camera, tripod and dolly) and the singers sung out loud again to have to correct mouth movements to make the lip syncing realistic and believable.

We used the same technique to edit which is called layering. This is the best technique we have learned to edit music videos and it provides quick editing of multiple layers so that the sequence is more cohesive and the best take is playing at the best time.

I think this exercise went very well as I was able to easily sync together the audio to the visuals meaning that the singers sang in time very well. This means that the sequence looked more professional as the timing was good. Furthermore the continuity of the sequence was very good as we made sure that they kept doing to same actions each take for example the hand of the microphone pole was always there when it needed to be. Lastly, in this second exercise we fixed the issue of framing as we put the shorter singer on a chair so she would be the same height as the other; this is an issue we had last time so this time we improvised to solve this.

However not everything in the exercise when well. The lighting is causing both singers foreheads to glow and isn't very flattering. Therefore this makes the sequence less professional. Another issue is that as the dolly was being used on carpet the effect was less smooth and this is noticeable as the camera shakes and doesn't look steady.

From this exercise we were told to focus more on editing to the beat as this is what real music videos tend to do. Therefore in this exercise we learned how to make our final music video more professional.