Best way to make a music video with me in motion?
December 10, 2023 1:23 PM Subscribe
It's possible that I've asked this question before in various ways, but I still feel stuck, so here goes:
I'd like to make some music videos. I"ve actually made some music videos ("The Big One;" "Assisted Living" (those are live performances, taken with a phone or iPad); "Cat Videos" and "Still Me" (music tracks done separately and later added to iMovie video)
BUT now I want to make a video where I'm doing stuff while singing. But of course if I sing while doing stuff the music isn't going to come out good/uniform/etc. SO --- is my only REAL option to record the song first and then lip sync as I do stuff? I believe I am not going to be good at this! I know that if I'm turned to the side, for example, or crouching, etc. the viewer will not be looking directly at my mouth, but still, much of the time I will be looking at the camera, and I fear that my mouth movements are just not going to be synched well enough to make this look good.
Are there any other ways to accomplish this? THAnKS!!!!!
I'd like to make some music videos. I"ve actually made some music videos ("The Big One;" "Assisted Living" (those are live performances, taken with a phone or iPad); "Cat Videos" and "Still Me" (music tracks done separately and later added to iMovie video)
BUT now I want to make a video where I'm doing stuff while singing. But of course if I sing while doing stuff the music isn't going to come out good/uniform/etc. SO --- is my only REAL option to record the song first and then lip sync as I do stuff? I believe I am not going to be good at this! I know that if I'm turned to the side, for example, or crouching, etc. the viewer will not be looking directly at my mouth, but still, much of the time I will be looking at the camera, and I fear that my mouth movements are just not going to be synched well enough to make this look good.
Are there any other ways to accomplish this? THAnKS!!!!!
I see artists on IG doing this and @lolayounggg comes to mind. They're usually outside or in semi-public spaces like laundromats, singing live to a backing track but they also wear headphones and hold honking big microphones.
That said, you might be worrying too much about the lip sync. For most viewers, I think it's about the emotion and the body language. From the other direction of what you're doing - I've sat in on animation post production, where an actor is recording dialogue to match scenes that were animated to some temporary lines that were added later in the process. It's not really about matching the lip movements. On a basic level, it's about matching the overall timing of the temporarily recorded line but mostly it's about matching the energy/dynamics of the animation.
posted by brachiopod at 5:06 PM on December 10, 2023 [1 favorite]
That said, you might be worrying too much about the lip sync. For most viewers, I think it's about the emotion and the body language. From the other direction of what you're doing - I've sat in on animation post production, where an actor is recording dialogue to match scenes that were animated to some temporary lines that were added later in the process. It's not really about matching the lip movements. On a basic level, it's about matching the overall timing of the temporarily recorded line but mostly it's about matching the energy/dynamics of the animation.
posted by brachiopod at 5:06 PM on December 10, 2023 [1 favorite]
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Instead of thinking of it like lip syncing, think of it as singing along with the recording of yourself. You can probably do that in pretty close to unison! And there's no reason to try to be quiet on the video if you're going to be throwing the audio out anyway!
Besides that, make a few takes from different camera angles, and then you can cut back and forth to pick the one for each part where the mouth movements line up best.
posted by aubilenon at 1:46 PM on December 10, 2023 [6 favorites]