Do your own lip-sync
Group activity : Choose a video and lip-sync it yourselves!
We have learnt about some of the techniques used and problems faced by the creators of the first films with sound and music, including how to synchronize images and words.
Now, would you like to create your own lipdub film? A lipdub video combines lip synching and audio dubbing.
This may sound too complicated and time-consuming: there are many spectacular school lipdub videos on YouTube in which the whole school has been involved. But at the end of this page there are examples of two that are perhaps less ambitious than some and don't take so much time to make as a video that includes the whole school, but they are still good!
So go for it! It will be fun!
Prepare it well.....
You will need your teacher's help to coordinate you all, so ask her/him nicely!
You will need a good video (in English, obviously!) You can either choose a video in which a lot of people talk and/or sing maybe in turns, so that all of you in class can get a chance to lip-sync at least one line. Or -and perhaps this will be easier to find - you need a good song which you can lip-sync in turns, even though the same person is singing the original song.
Perhaps other teachers at school would like to take part too! You will probably need to use some time at break or lunchtime if you would like other teachers to participate.
You will also need a camera and the right software for editing your video. There are lots of programmes that can do this, such as Moviemaker, which is one of the simplest. If you like, go ahead to Unit 5 in this project to see how to use Lightworks, which is another good programme.
You have probably seen some spectacular school lipdubs on youtube, but they are difficult to make because,
among other things, you need the collaboration of the whole school,
quite a lot of resources and quite a lot of time!
But take heart!! Here are two examples of school lipdubs (one serious, one funny) that are perhaps not quite so complicated and ambitious, but they are good: you can do this too!!!
This is an example of a school video that didn't need any spectacular scenery, background or movement.
It's different because the students played their own version of the song and then also lipdubbed and mimed it.
musicavalga Mad World Licencia YouTube
And here, the teachers at the Cherwell School in Oxford, England,
make their own funny lipdub video for their students! Brilliant!
CherwellResources The teachers lipdub Abba! Licencia YouTube
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