Preliminary Lipsync

In our group we chose to do our practice lip-sync to Chunky, a featured song on the film Madagascar by Will.I.Am.
Through out the production of this i learnt several things.
First of all it was how to use the cameras and the use of the tripods to create the desired angle which is useful to keep the camera steady and if there is no free hands spare.
This also helped me reinforce my knowledge about camera angles having to think oh what type of angles would be best and to accumulate more ideas to use for our final piece.
The area that i learnt most in was the editing process using the software Final Cut Express. I learnt the basics of the process for example the components of the software like the browser, viewer, canvas, timeline etc. I learnt how to import,capture and render our video clips. I learnt how to cut the clips, we all took a fair share on editing the video so everyone learnt the basics of it. We also learnt useful parts of the program like the In and Out points which make editing the clips much easier and efficient which will help greatly in our final product. We also spent a small time browsing on the effects we could use but this really was the benefit for our next piece rather than our current.
All in all it was a successful practice though their were a few minor slip ups when we were recording, however for that next time we know that its important to make the recording as perfect as possible so that it does not need to be redone as this is slightly annoying and time consuming.