Lip Syncing Practice

This is our lip syncing practice. This task was set by our teacher to have a go at trying to match our lip movements to the artists in the song. It was a fun task but quite embarrassing! Even though I'm close friends with Claudia and tend to sing in front of her all the time, it was hard to be serious and perform in front of a camera! As the song went on and I felt more comfortable I was able to relax and act more, however I think in some parts I feel like I am over-acting and Claudia is a little too tense and serious when performing.
Claudia seems more natural in front of the camera and her voice and look suit the voice of the artist, even  down to the way Claudia sings along, it really matches who she is.
We both tried to incorporate facial expressions and body language to add more effect to the video but it proved harder than we thought, especially to make it look natural and realistic. Only half of the song was used purely because we had only recently discovered the song and didn't know all of the lyrics. After we watched the footage back, we both realised that knowing every lyric word for word, including emotion and length of note is extremely important. If a word is missed or the mouth closes before the actual singing does, it sticks out badly! We immediately knew that lip syncing was a remarkably important role and will make the video either brilliant or awful. So the pressure was on, however as a group we decided Claudia would suit this role a lot more than I would, reasons being; she is natural in front of the camera (and with practice there will be improvements - remembering this is the first time we have both done this!), she suits the song, she is confident and can relax in front of me so that wouldn't be an issue and we both just think the overall effect will be much better with Claudia as the artist. The lip syncing is something we want to get on point, this means Claudia will have to have our song on repeat, learning the lyrics, timings and singing along! This will hopefully get into her brain and she will become fluent to the lyrics and performing the song.
From this task we have successfully chosen who will be our artist and established the importance of this aspect.