Reflecting Back On The AS Year- Evaluation on Lip Sync Tutorial and Digipak

During the process off created our own music video for our chosen song, we were taught the step-by-step method of overlaying the lip-synch lyrics to a song on top of the chosen songs soundtrack. To do this we used the programme Final Cut Pro to watch the video clips of the artist lip-synching the lyrics to the song and matching the lyrics to the soundtrack. We had a variety of different video clips of the artists shot at different angles singing the lyrics to the song.

We first had to insert the submix of the soundtrack onto the timeline. Clicking on the audio option, we were then able to see the sound waves of the song which would make it easier for us to mark the beats of the song and where the chorus off the song was, so it would be easier for us to overlay the video clips of the artists singing the chorus. We had to use 'M' to mark onto the submix where the chorus was and every beat within the song. On the submix, red dots would appear which would indicate where the chorus was and the different beats with the song.

Using this same method, we had to mark on the video clips where the chorus occurred and drag the video clip on the timeline on top of the submix. We had to ensure that both the submix marker and the video clip marker were underneath each other.  We then had to do the same process for 5 video clips and overlay them to the soundtrack. Eventually, using the slicer tool we would cut the through the video clips were each marker point was and eliminate the video clip we didn't want to be shown.

We then had the opportunity to do our own task and take a song and make a video to the soundtrack including us lip-synching the lyrics to the song. Our chosen song was ' LE FREAK'. We used the JVC cameras and camera equipment to shoot our film. We chose to shoot in college and use random people to sing the lines to the chorus. Both Milan and me took lead to sing the lyrics to the verses and Adam was our cameraman.  We then used the flip camera to take photos for our CD cover Me, Milan and John are included in our CD cover whilst Adam was our photographer.

We then uploaded our footage and photos onto out hardrive and imported it on to Final Cut Pro, we used the same method as we used for our Practise run off matching the video clips and lip-synching lyrics to the soundtrack. When we finished we had to covert our footage to MP4 by making it a QuickTime movie and import it through Handbrake.

To create our CD cover, we used the programme 'Photoshop Elements 4.0', through this programme it enabled us to add effects and create a CD cover. We decided to use bright colours to go with the fun theme ' le freak’, we though that the bright colours will contrast well with the theme of the tune. We also included the barcode for our CD and included the production company logo.