Day Three

Day: Wednesday
Who: Paul Sutton
Where: MR8
Time: 10-6

Today we looked at lip syncing, we watched lots of videos in the morning of all different standards, after each one discussing whether or not they would be classified as drama. In most cases the answer was yes. As much as I like watching them some of them didn't meet the methodology behind the project, which is to juxtapose a song to the visuals in order to repurpose it, some of the videos that we saw weren't very good due to the fact they didn't meet the proposed methodology of lipsyncing.

We then made our own, instead of just letting us go off and do them, paul got us in groups and asked us to make 5 pieces of drama, mixing between action and still images. We then performed them very quickly going round the circle and Paul played a track over the top, then was then a discussion as to what the use of the track did, this helped to form more of our methodology for lipsyncing, for example we all said the music added a level of pace and humour to the piece, it also took away any awkwardness from both a performers position and the audiences. These were just a couple of important things we felt we should consider when making our own.

When trying to find songs and contexts that juxtapose each other but that complimented our themes was difficult, in the end we ended up working semi individually with each of us coming up with our own concept and idea and the two others acting as crew and doing the videoing and playing the music...this worked best for our group due to the differences in what we had all done already and also our levels of understanding of the task. Me and Fran spent a good hour trying to explain the both the lip syncing task and the stratar map task in the end Paul had to come and talk to us, specifically arlinda and explain everything.

During the day I filmed two lip syncs one, was 1000 miles and we filmed it as my lip syncing in a strange place with random people. The second one of mine was fly me to the moon which we filmed with me laying on the grass and I have tagged it to Abington Park due to the history and tourist attraction that it has become especially in the last decade.

I also assisted with arlindas student union video and Frans ghost town that I filmed and came up with the idea for this was helpful for two of us as we were both doing hauntings of northampton lines. The versatility of the lip syncs cab be shown through this example as I used it for the haunting of an old pub and Fran used it as the haunting of the magician within the university building.

When looking at my lip syncs I have worked within the methodology of the subject, my lip sync to 1000 miles is about feeling like an outsider whereas the song it's self is about feeling at home and working to make someone smile. My video is not only a juxtaposition but also repurpose's the song.

My second lip sync is about flying to the moon and my video was shot with me laying on the ground, so it was straight away a visual juxtaposition, no to mention the songs lyrics were about being in love and wishing to kiss someone, I then attached this song to Abington Park and spoke about the hangings, repurposing the song as a trip to heaven from the gallows instead of the romantic love song everyone knows it as.

I did initially struggle with the use of lip syncing for the map, just due to the confusion on how it was useful in terms of showing our surroundings...but after watching some more YouTube clips it started to make more sense and meant I made some effective lip syncs for my map.