In the studio, we had three different sets;

• one with a green screen and a sofa
• one with neon lighting panels 
• one in an apartment setting. 

The camera facing the green screen and facing the apartment setting was set in a still positioning and set directly in front of the set. However the levels used for each were slightly different, the one facing the sofa was lower than the one facing the apartment. On the setting with the neon lights, there was a camera set up on a track (dolly).

We assigned each other different roles, such as: Floor manager, playback, camera man, performer and director. These roles allowed it to be filmed properly and meant we were able to edit the film in time to the music. The director would take charge of what the cameramen and performers are doing, the performers and cameramen would do as they are told, the playback would take charge of playing the song and the floor manager would make sure everyone is ready and everything is going to plan. We learnt how to use the dolly safely, capturing everything we needed. We also learnt to focus on the play back before then focusing on the performers, this meaning the video could sync up perfectly with the music.

In the editing suite, we started off by organising and naming our rushes and then syncing each up to the music. To do this we looked at the timer that the playback held which we made sure to focus on at the start of each shot whenever we were able to so that we could sync it perfectly to the music, at points we were unable to do this method as the camera was set facing a different direction (this problem occurred on the green screen set), when this happened, we listened to the snare drum and synced it as closely as we could to that. Making sure that the music and video is synced up perfectly is vital so this is what we spent the most time doing. One thing our grouped struggled with was continuity with editing, we tried to come up with as many original ideas on set as we could by using the set in different ways or performing different routines but there wasn't many angles of the same shots. This meaning there wasn't much of an order to our video. Once we selected parts we thought were best for each section of the song, we cut and pasted the footage into a timeline which eventually turned into a longer video. We made sure to keep saving the video as we went to ensure all of the edited video didn't get lost. Editing this lip sync was more challenging for us than when making our thrillers because of the troubles with continuity and making sure it is constantly in sync with the lyrics.

Next time we will make sure to get lots of shots of the same action to ensure the video has good continuity so that the video visually looks better and the cuts would be more effective and cleaner. This tasked helped me to prepare by letting me practice syncing the music to the video and by viewing the mistakes we made and how we can change them.