Reflection of Lip Sync Exercise/Tutorial.

Filming was quite a longer process than we all originally thought it would be. As the whole group decided that the main lead singer for the actual final music video (Charlotte) should equally be assigned to the role of a singer for this exercise mainly because we want her to get used to the role and requirements it takes, and to boost up her confidence.
Additionally, it would make the rest of us film directors (Me, Yasmeen and Zeyneb) get used to the fundamental skills such as:

• Steady hands when using handheld camera
• Focusing shots
• Different types of shots and angles to use whilst filming
• Using the settings in the video camera
• Deciding what is a good shot or not (e.g. rule of three, no space above head)

Because we had a short amount of time to memorise the lyrics, Charlotte found it additionally difficult to sing in time with the song so we had a lot of bad footage in the beginning. Also, as it was our first time filming this process sequence, some of our directing did not follow essential skills for a standard professional music video.

Whilst editing, we only had one base track that went the whole way. However, we had many other footage of different actions and camera shots so we combined this in the Lip Sync exercise music video.
Lip syncing Charlotte and the actual singer in the music track was challenging, as we had to get used to finding the correct timing so there is no delay or lag which would look like a very amateur project. Putting in-points in time with the beat was quite hard but once we done it, using the blade tool was relatively easy to cut out other visual base tracks to have a decent transition and range of different shots in the Lip Sync exercise music video.

However, despite all the flaws we faced, we have gained valuable insight to develop our ideas and skills to improve our media knowledge and skills to hopefully create a good final music video.