One Day Lip Sync Project

For the one day lip sync project, my group and I were assigned "Winner Takes It All" the popular song by ABBA. We all decided the best way to learn the song on a basic level was to listen to it via an I-Pod dock as we filmed, until we eventually got the gist of it. Upon discussion, we decided to have a lonely and somewhat depressed person having an abstract, imaginative figure lip syncing the lyrics and following him throughout his woeful day. We originally plan to script each verse but due to time restrictions, were unable to do so and resorted to using some of the same footage for larger parts of the song. Once filming was finished, we then put the project on to Final Cut Pro. Editing proved difficult because of the large amounts of cutting we had to do to ensure each scene flowed with the song, once completed however, we compressed our video and then burnt the project on to disc.

We did however run into a few problems during shooting as one member of the three-man group was not present on the day and the other had a brief doctors appointment. On top of all this there was a prolonged problem with the IMac computers, meaning less time to edit and compress the footage.

Despite these setbacks, I think we did very well with our video. The lip syncing was very well edited alongside the narrative. If we did not encounter crew problems, then the video would have fuller footage and an all round polished look.