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Above is our completed lip syncing product of Moto Moto from Madagascar 2. We recorded and edited the footage for just 60 seconds, as it was purely a practice to use the program for the first time, though it allowed us to try out everything we needed.

The shoot itself proved to be an issue, we struggled finding a venue as we didn't know of any vacant classrooms in the school, so finding one was time consuming. When we eventually found one, setting up the camera with the tripod took time, as none of us had ever used either before. Next, we had to decide on the camera angles and shots to use, as well as any dance routines - we hadn't planned any of this at all!

From this task we learned that:

• In our real music video we need to facially over exaggerate every single word - even if it feels ridiculous, it's easier and more comfortable for the audience to watch.
• We need to record each frame more than once, as the footage we found was not always suitable - we had to go out and film on two separate occasions! It's better to have too much to use rather than too little.
• We found that we should be listening to the track at the time of lip syncing so that we're all in time with not only each other, but the track itself. We found that as we didn't do this with the chorus, the recordings didn't fit as accurately when we were putting it to the track.
• Every single shot needs to have been carefully planned, as we went out with just a rough plan and found that our ideas weren't developed enough to do everything without planning more. We need to consider: location, costume, actions, lighting (our lighting was very dark and shadowed, to an upbeat, content song - we edited the recordings to make it brighter, however this lost a lot of the quality), and most importantly; CAMERA ANGLES, before setting out to record.