Morning in the studio

On Thursday the 20th of June we did a lip sinking activity in the studio. The purpose of this was so we had some sort of basis of lip sinking and working in the studio before beginning on our pop videos in September.

We got into the studio and there were three work shop stations; a green screen, cave set and bed sit. The cave set used a tracking shot and spider dolly while the other sets used a standard tripod to get the still shots.

THE GREEN SCREEN:
 
Our group did the green screen first. We light up the green screen and set up the camera. It was very important to stand at least a meter in front of the green screen to eliminate shadows, the floor was marked with tap to make sure we abide by this rule.
The green screen allowed an image of background set to be edited onto it in post production. The green colour allows there to be the cleanest possible image.




THE CAVE SET (WORKING WITH THE SPIDER DOLLY):

This set was so that we could use the spider dolly and see how it worked. Also creating a smooth tracking shot. When doing this shot it found it was important to leave moving space in the direction of the moving person. We also found it was important to make sure the wire was straight so that the camera did not jult.  


BED SET:

This set consists of a sofa, some walls and a window to create a room kind of feeling. The camera was placed at a lower angle so that the sofa was in frame.

With all of these sets we were able to create something new every time. This made it interesting when we came to editing it together.


EDITING & LIP SINKING:

We then went up to the editing sweat and learnt how to sink the music in time with the footage we had recorded. First we put in the audio. Then choosing the clip we wanted to place this with we used the three beats to count in the begging to sink it up with the music. This made sure that peoples mouth were moving in time with the music. We then used the blade tool to cut and edit the footage other in time with the music. We did this in final cut pro. We did this activity quite quickly and ruffly as we already had the basis of using final cut pro from our thriller task in AS. This part of the task was to enable us to understand how to lip sink and sink the footage with the music to make it look convincingly. I learnt from this that there is no such think as bad lip sinking in the editing side of things just someone not lip sinking convincingly enough.