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90s music ‘lip dubbed’ at high school
April 6th, 2010 at Tue, 6th, 2010 at 10:19 am by elizabethburlingameThis week, Oak Harbor High School will join the dozens of schools who have produced a music video “lip dub” style.
Lip dubbing is a special type of video where the camera has to keep moving and it must be completed without any editing. In other words, in one continuous shot. This makes the shooting really difficult. The music video will be used in a competition between between Oak Harbor, Anacortes, Burlington-Edison, Mount Vernon and Sedro Wooley high schools.
Video teacher Chris Douthitt said the crew will use special camera equipment, costumes, visual effects, a large cast of characters and a medley of songs from the 90s.
“With our split campus and because we’ve had to work on it during spring break, there’s no telling how it will all go. My hope is it will be very cool,” Douthitt said.
The lip dub style has become hugely popular with high schools and universities, and many include non-stop shots of students lip-syncing with props, choreography and instruments.
All videos will be shown in Anacortes at Broadniak Hall on Monday evening April 12. More to come in the Saturday’s edition of the Whidbey News-Times.
Here are some great examples of lip dub videos. The first one is from Shorewood High School in Shorewood, Wash. Students creatively sung the songs backwards and played the footage in reverse:
Another from Shorecrest High School:
elizabethburlingame Liz Burlingame has covered features and education for about two years at the Whidbey News-Times. She graduated from the University of Washington in 2008. Liz is a former intern for 710 KIRO radio and The Seattle Times. She first began blogging during the presidential race for The Huffington Post's "Off the Bus" series, "The Dallas Morning News," site and a student-run Web site. In 2008, she went on a state-wide bus trip with the guv and blogged for Crosscut.com. Her News-Times blog will cover arts and entertainment on the island.
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