Account Of Lip Sync Exercise

We entered the studio at about 9am and began to set up our cameras in front of three different set pieces, one green screen, one fake stone wall and a kind of living room set-up with wallpapered walls, a wooden floor, a couch and a window. In front of the stone we put a tracking dolly, the other two setups were stationary shots, the couch camera usually kept high-angle, the green screen one pretty much eye level and all of them had varied degrees of close up shots. Upon completion of the shot setups some issues were already apparent, the studio is quite a small space as it is and with three different sets operating simultaneously in there, things were crowded and hectic. The choice in music was an issue on a personal level, listening to the same appalling song again and again for an entire morning, but sometimes you just have to deal. I think overall though the shoot went pretty well, the tracking shots especially turned out very clear and professional looking, the green screen was probably the worst, the shots just didn't really capture any attention during editing and I thought that they looked boring. The couch wasn't too bad, wasn't great either. I think it also had a lot to do with the lighting setup, the wall had really effective side lighting so it looked professional, whereas the others were front lit, which doesn't bring out the actor/singer/lip-syncer's features as well, they look slightly two dimensional. The studio is a really good space to work in, if there are fewer bodies in there, we had two (maybe more) different classes in there all shooting at the same time, so it really could not be utilised to the extent that it usually can. One thing I will say though, there were no sound issues, which is one of those small, everyday blessings that are so uplifting in our lives. Editing was also a breeze compared to our previous thrillers, it is much easier to know when to make cuts if there is a beat and lyrics, though I must stress that we didn't just cut on the beats, I've wasted enough time watching music videos to know better than that. Unlike our thrillers, we also had a lot of useable material to work with, as opposed to trying to peice together something from nothing. The only problem we had really during editing was the fact that the computer kept crashing whenever we tried to drag a clip onto the timeline, technology can be so tempramental, but Matt came and sorted that for us. As a team I thought we worked pretty effectively, we got the job done and we did it as best we could, which as it turns out was pretty damn good. Pats on the back all round I think. The morning shoot and the editing that followed really went very well and was a fun process to be involved in.