Reflecting back on the AS year: Lip Sync

In June after our exam, on the media lesson we had to create a task which meant to prepare us for an A2 year; we had to create a music video. 

For me it was really random task, I did not what to do when teacher gave my group a song 'Respect'. We had to use 4 or 5 different shots. We had only a one lesson to finish this task. We did not think about location, about style, about anything. We just went into one of the free computer rooms, placed a camera and starting to take footage. We could not decide who is going to sing or even what we should do. We asked other student to help us with singing, but after 5 minutes we decided to do it only within our group. Reem was a lead singer, I was in chorus. While she was singing I was dancing and having lots of fun.
After, when we actually done this task, we realised that we missed lots of opportunities to make our video look much better. 

We could use different location to make different shots looks more distinguish. I think that for the first time our lip sync was not bad as it could be. For a little amount of time, we managed to learn lyrics. We looked quite confidence in front of camera. 

I learnt that we should take one footage for a whole song, rather than stopping between like in the Thriller opening.  However, we have to take many more footage to create a variety of different shots and angles to make music video interesting.

In terms of editing, there is a big difference between a film and music video. We have to put 'marker' using M in the particular moments of each footage. This will help us to make sure that the music matches singing. Moreover if we decided to put marker with each beat eg. 1-2-3 and marker-1-2-3 and marker until end, it will make our music video livelier.