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It is a technique where you speed up the song for the band to play along with on set and at the same time you record slow motion. If you do this right when you bring it into your timeline the singers lips and the band's instruments will be in sync to the song but they will be in slow motion.
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If you bring the singers back to original music speed sync aren't you just going back to "normal" thus eliminating any kind of "slow mo effect" e.g. bringing 140% back to 100%. Not sure I caught where the slow mo was, would you explain more on this.

And awesome music video! I wish there was an extended behind the scenes on all your music vids to learn from.

Thanks

JM
 
Well Marvin, I believe its as follows:
Theoretically, say you double the speed of a song and film them singing to the sped up version.
You than take it in post and slow it down to the real version of the song, so 100% of the song speed. So now your lips and any other rhythmical movements are still synced but in slow motion.
Those are my thoughts on it, I have not done this personally so I may be a bit off. But I believe its correct theoretically.
 
But if you have the talent sing and perform and move at 140% than slow it down to 100% speed, which is the speed that matches the song, then everything is back to 100% anyways.. strumming the guitar in 100%, lips synced back to 100%, etc. So why not just have the talent perform in normal 100% speed to begin with?
 
Because everything else in the shot is now in slow-mo. If you use the technique to, say, get a guitar player rocking out... his hands will be strumming the guitar in sync, but his hair whipping around, his jacket blowing open, and any jumping up and down as well as whatever's going on in the background will all be in slo-mo. It's really kind of a neat looking effect.
 
I guess another way to think about it is that anything synced to the music will be at 140% (strumming, drumming and singing), but everything else is only at 100%. Slow the synced stuff to 100%, and now everything else in the shot is at, what, 60% (not sure on the exact math)?
 
Mike Harvey said:
Because everything else in the shot is now in slow-mo. If you use the technique to, say, get a guitar player rocking out... his hands will be strumming the guitar in sync, but his hair whipping around, his jacket blowing open, and any jumping up and down as well as whatever's going on in the background will all be in slo-mo. It's really kind of a neat looking effect.
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Great explanation, I was trying to think of the way to word it, but you definitely described it perfectly.
 
Haha sorry i couldn't be more of assistance. Well put Mike :)
We used this in one take of the wide shot, one take of the silhouette shot, the CU of the piano keys, and the drummer's insert at the end with the leaves falling.


You can see a great example of this technique in the beginning with the wide shot where he is swinging the mic to the beat of the song and it is in slow motion. Neat trick, but i never like to play it to big in the video, it's more of a spice rather than an ingredient it self if you know what i mean.. haha
 
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