Lip Synch - If you wanna be my lover

This is our lipsynching video that we did to the Spice Girls, ‘If you wanna be my lover.’ This was good to do as it was useful to see what was needed to make lipsynching in a music video successful. We had fun but we also learnt a lot from it and we could see what it would be like for our actors in the video, as well as experiencing some directing skills.

From this I learnt that the actors must know the lyrics of the song really well in order to make it look realistic and believable. They also have to actually sing the song; otherwise it will look like they are actually miming to the lyrics. If there is more than one actor then they must all sing the whole song through and we will film this, as well as taking a couple of takes, so that we have variety and can choose what parts we want from the footage. From our video we can also see that we need a lot of close-up shots of the people, as our video doesn’t have much variety and we tended to stay at medium shots, which makes us seem more distant and less engaging. Editing and shot types are really important for a music video. We learnt that the editing looks good when it’s choppy and not neat, ie. cutting shots before a line of the song finishes and cutting to the beat of the music. Variation of shots is also important and there should be a range of angles and distances, as well as movement so as for it not to look too static.