(21/9/10) week 2 of the music video topic

We spent the morning looking at more music videos with good examples of lip syncing such as the song 'There She Goes' by 'Six Pence, None the Richer'(below), while we were watching Mr. Duran also ran us through the use of different camera angles. Mr. Duran told us that students frequently came back from filming their band to find fatal problems in there filming such as no interesting camera angles (close ups, over shoulder, etc) or they filmed it in a dim room which meant their video was dark and dull. We then were given an mp3 player with 'There She Goes' on it, a portable speaker and a video camera and were told to go outside and film each other lip syncing the words to the song. Me and Michael decided it would be easier to mime 'Three Little Birds' by 'Bob Marley'. After about ten minutes of me and Michael arguing who should go first I managed to conquer my embarrassment and mime words while Michael filmed this excruciating episode. After that Michael did the same but just before I started filming he managed to poke him self in the eye, which meant he was squinting the whole time.It was unfortunate ,but still a rather funny event. (couldn't get the original 'There She Goes' so I got the American version.) Today was fun and satisfying. I successfully learnt to use film editing soft ware to lip-sync . It was also really useful to see to students past work and to learn valuable tips on camera angles. I think I now appreciate that when filming you need plenty of different shots such as close ups ,otherwise successful editing can become a real challenge!