Lip Syncing Research

We wanted to gain some further knowledge on how to create successful lip syncing therefore, we took to the well known video sharing platform that is 'YouTube' to do some research. The Tonight Show With Jimmy Fallon is a successful late night talk show, presented by Jimmy Fallon. Within his show he has a segment called 'Lip Sync Battle' in which celebrities choose two songs each to lip sync too and they 'battle' against each other and Jimmy himself - above is an example of Anne Hathaway's version of 'Wrecking Ball.' By watching a numerous amount of these videos we discovered how to create successful lip syncing when focusing on a few minor elements. We were able to analyse the key characteristics in a lot of detail whilst the contestants were performing which then helps us progress our version.

I found that the main element to a successful lip sync is the timing; even is you are a millisecond out of time, the whole thing can look awful and unrealistic. In the example you can see that Hathaway is fairly in time, showing that practise and knowledge of the song is key.

Facial expressions are also important when it comes to lip syncing - if you're 'singing' a sad song yet your face looks happy, it will look quite obvious that you're lip syncing. In the parts where the song sounds more powerful, the artist must look as if they are exaggerating their mouth movement to match with the song. Overall, if your facial expressions do not match the song, it will make your video look unprofessional.

These are all points that we need to take into consideration when lip syncing in our video as we want our project to look as professional as possible. As a group, we will be holding lip syncing auditions to decide who is the best candidate for our video.