Evaluating Lip Sync tutorial

In my opinion the lip sync tutorial was very successful. It taught use how to use final cut pro more effectively for our music video. We learnt that the most common shot types in music videos are; close ups, extreme close ups, tracking shot of the artist, and medium close ups.

Carol Vernalils music video theory helped us to edit our footage together. As she taught us to edit to the beat, use obvious edits and jump cuts. Music videos don't follow the same structure as a film as such and its doesn't follow the 180* rule also it can change pace for no reason. The edits don't have to be explain there just there to emphasis the video and make it look for attractive and appealing for the audience to engage with.

With the lip sync we got taught to add markers into the final cut on every 4th beat and to a certain word or phase so we could match our clips with the original song. So it helped us to edit to the beat effectively and we could just place our clips where a specific marker was because we knew a certain word or phrase started there along with our clip so it would match up correctly. (Image of the markers below)

 If you can see there is red markers on the top of the time line of clips. Those markers are in sync with the beat of the song so we could add clips to the correctly places without trying to match the image to the song as it was almost done for you as the markers where there.

This method of editing made our lip sync practice video very good as it helped us to edit it faster and we then had time to add special effects and transitions to the clip.





Furthermore videos contain base tracks. A base track is when you film the whole song from one angle. You do this several times from many different angles and you can edit the video together more efficiently and you just put them all together and cut the bits you don't want and it comes together nicely and none of the song is missing.
In our practice video we filmed 5-6 base tracks which was very effective as it made it much easier to edit saved time and made the editing organised.
From this I know to film as many base tracks as I can for the real production as I realized you can never have enough base tracks even if you use one for 6 seconds its still useful to have the option to use more.