A2 Media Introduction

For my A2 Media Studies coursework I will be asked to plan, shoot and edit a music video. To help me learn and develop the techniques needed for this project our first task was to learn how to lip synch to the words of a song, whilst dubbing the voice of the person singing with the song choice.

For this me, Sophie and Faye sung the first verse and chorus of the Bon Jovi song, Living On A Prayer whilst being recorded on camera. Once this was achieved we then had to both import and edit the film footage so that the timing of the singing would be in time and match that of the words in the song.

For this we used Adobe Premier Pro, a video editing software. By taking A2 Film Studies alongside A2 Media I already had basic knowledge of how the system works. Firstly we had to unlink our voices, (to do this we had to right click on the part of the sound that we didn't want and select unlink. We then had to click away from the sound before returning to it and pressing delete), before importing the Bon Jovi song Living On A Prayer onto the video.

After this we had to shorten the song so that we only had the first verse and chorus of the song and that it therefore matched in time with our singing.

By completing this process I improved my established skills of using Adobe Premier Pro and further learnt how to complete such process as unlinking our voices and being able to successfully match our lip syncing with the actual music. This will provide me with a starting point on which I can continue with hopefully improving on my skills in further music video projects.

The link below is of our final completed take on lip syncing to Bon Jovi's Living On A Prayer;

http://www.youtube.com/user/SophieGriff91#p/a/u/2/HjRxSRl1tJs