Another one of our preperation tasks was lip syncing. This was a new concept so we began by looking at other videos on youtube to get an idea on what to do and how successful they can look if they are done properly. At first this looked extremely tricky however as the task went on it became apparent later that timing is everything in the task. We began by getting into groups which I was in with Darren, Jack, Ricky and Dan with Maxwell doing the camera and all the shots. We decided to do the song 'thats what makes you beautiful' by one direction. We had to plan the whole process of the video and again as there were 5 of us, gave each other a character each with my character being Louis. Over a few lessons we finished our planing and did our filming. This was the first time we had done filming in sync with music and in the end you could tell that the video wasnt really successful. After we got our filming done we had to begin editing on the imacs. We had never edited before however I believe that I picked it up rather well and we edited through the song rather quickly. There were many concepts to do with the editing and we used some of these in the video however most we didnt really touch. We finally came up with our video and had to upload it onto youtube. The main point was to get the lip syncing correct throughout the video and ours looked really good.

Here is the link to our video:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yxda7mUI5uI&list=UUzCuzU6TJVKZ_Khku1FndtQ&index=9&feature=plcp

After we uploaded the video we saw that there was a delay in the song. We saw this delay to be of 6 seconds which is why the lip syncing is really poor.

In conclusion to the task I learnt lots of valuable experiences. The main experience was the lip syncing. We could tell that to get it right it was going to be hard and we had good practise on getting it perfect however it turned out unfortunate.  This definately has helped me though to get a decent idea of the good levels we need but also has given me skills that I can use in the future for our final production piece especially with moving and editing of certain different clips that need to be put together as one. I have also learnt from the task that we should take more shots and slower shots instead of it all in one. We in the task didnt give ourselves enough cover or opportunities to make it look better and this could be seen in the end video where some parts we were laughing etc. Overall I believe that this task was very valuable to me especially for my final production as it all has the same principles of what I need to do for my final piece and this gives me previous experience in doing this to a high level.