If you are not familiar with lip dub videos, now is the time to lean about them as they are the next big wave of videos to hit YouTube. So what is a lib dub video?
A lip dub is a type of video that combines lip synching and audio dubbing to make a music video.
Often they look like simple music videos. However, many involve a lot of preparation and production. Often lip dubs are done in a single unedited shot that travels through different rooms and situations.
On December 14, 2006 the term 'Lip Dubbing' was coined, the founder of Vimeo, Jake Lodwaick posted a video entitled Lip Dubbing: Endless Dream. In the video's description, he wrote, "I walked around with a song playing in my headphones, and recorded myself singing. When I got home I opened it in iMovie and added an MP3 of the actual song, and synchronized it with my video. Is there a name for this? If not, I suggest 'lip dubbing
I was first introduced into the world of lib dubbing by my friend Jon. He went to Honduras with Canada World Youth and when he returned he showed me their version of Hey Soul Sister. At the time it was just the RAW footage, so I offered to do the editing & dubbing for him.
Here is the end result:
Jon told me that he got his inspiration from a video that was made by a university in Montreal with their lib dub version of I've got a feeling by The Black Eyed Peas. I was blow away with the amount of people involved and home much practice it must have taken. See for your self.
Pretty awesome right? That video was made in 2 Hours 15 Mins on September 10th 2009; There were 172 communication students involved.
So now comes the interesting part. Universities have always been competitive against each other, trying to be the fastest, strongest or just trying to one up each other, and in this case we all benefit from it because as you will see in this next video The University of British Colombia (UBC) have now raised the bar even higher, with there lip dub version of Raise Your Glass by Pink & Celebrity Status by Marianas Trench.
The video starts with a parody of the Old Spice Commercial and just keeps getting better and better.
AMAZING Right!!! Scuba diving, a helicopter and over 1000 people. This one is going to be hard to beat.
The video was made on March 26, 2011 and features Marianas Trench's Josh Ramsay, Ian Casselman, Mike Ayley, and Matt Webb, with Kirsten Wicklund, and Daniel Magder.
The creators also partnered with the Make-A-Wish Foundation so that every hit this video gets, money will be sent to Make-A-Wish.
I know that this is only the start of the lip dup battle between universities and I for one encourage it.
Jon, Laurent and I had a couple of drinks one night and decided to make our own lib dub video, it is shot in a different style were the camera is in a fixed position and we are moving in and out of frame. So if you have not had enough of a video fix yet check out our version of Bohemian Rhapsody
So tell me, "What song would you lip dub & why". Leave your comments or creative responses below and If you want to be among the first to get my video recommendations; Sign up to my mailing list on the right hand side and I will email you when ever I make a recommendation. :)
