WHAT IS A LIPDUB?

A lip dub is a type of video that combines lip synching and audio dubbing to make a
music video. It is made by filming individuals or a group of people lip synching while
listening to a song or any recorded audio then dubbing over it in post editing with the
original audio of the song. There is often some form of mobile audio device used such
as an iPod. Often, they look like simple music videos, although many involve a lot of
preparation and are well produced. The most popular lip dubs are done in a single
unedited shot that often travels through different rooms and situations in, say, an office
building. They have become popular with the advent of mass participatory video
content sites like YouTube. Tom Johnson, a technical writer who blogs about Web 2.0's
effect on communication, describes a good lip dub as having the characteristics, or at
least the appearance, of:

 Spontaneity.
 Authenticity: The people, production and situation appear real.
 Participation: "The video doesn’t consist of one person’s spectacular lip sync,
but that of a group, all participating together in this one spontaneous effort,
which seems to communicate the attitude and mood of the song."
 Fun: the people in the video are having a lot of fun.

ONE LIPDUB WAS CREATED IN BERGA (in “El negre”) Have you seen it? Go
here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JddZmAsJHiA

THE MOST IMPORTANT LIPDUB ALREADY CREATED!!!

June 2010 - Swissquote Bank (Switzerland)

Lip dub made by a swiss bank on the David Guetta "Money" song. 150 employee and
no video production company for this lipdub.

June 2010 - Universidad Miguel Hernández (Spain)

Students of the first class of journalism (2005-2010) produced the first lip dub of
University Miguel Hernández de Elche (UMH), audiovisual project called
"spotperiodismo.es". Four months of planning to carry out the recording in May 2010 in
the Atzavares building, where students study journalism. The lib dub includes a tribute
to classic films of journalism and is dedicated to the sponsor of the promotion, which
was named Doctor Honoris Causa by the UMH, journalist Rosa María Calaf.

June 2010 - Universitat de Vic (Catalonia, Spain)

This lip dub features over 900 people lipsynching to the song "Hey, Soul Sister" by
Train. The video has gone viral and was featured on CBC Newsworld on the week of
June 6, 2010.
June 2010 - Universitat Pompeu Fabra (Catalonia, Spain)

A group of students of the Pompeu Fabra University (UPF) presented in June of 2010 a
lip dub with 1,200 participants, a current world record. Participants included students,
teachers and administrative personnel. The chosen song was "Wake Me Up Before You
Go-Go" and the last scene included 700 persons dancing at the same time.

May 2010 - ComSabana (Colombia)

This is the First university lip dub in Colombia, by the School of Communications of
Universidad de La Sabana. It is the first university lip dub that uses many different
stagings in every single scenario where it was recorded, and it is the first one, which
was produced only by students. The idea for the ComSabana LipDub was to join
together the students from both academic programs from that School, Social
Communications and Journalism, and Audiovisual Communications and Multimedia,
whose until the recording were divided.

April 2010 - Lipdub at Calvin College (United States)

A lipdub by film production students at Calvin College, featuring the song "So Much
Love" by Rocket Summer.

April 2010 - National Taiwan University (Taiwan)

The very first lipdub video in Chinese, for the Art Festival of National Taiwan
University.

March 2010 - L'institute Français de Tel Aviv (Israel)

The first lip dub in Tel Aviv, made by the crew and students of the French institute in
Tel Aviv. The song is Rockollection by Laurent Voulzy.

February 2010 - HIT (Israel)

The first lip dub in Israel, made by 4th year Visual Communications Students, at the
Holon Technological Institute's School of Design. The song is "Let's Get it Started" by
the Black Eyed Peas.

February 2010 - FCOM Navarra (Spain)

The lip dub from Navarra School of Communication, also known as FCOM, is currently
the one with more participants in the world, with nearly 400. It was recorded on
February 10, 2010, and is further underlined by the appearance of a horse at the
beginning of the video. Was conducted to celebrate the day of the Patron. It is
considered that the song "Ramalla Ding Dong" used for this lip dub is one of the bests
in the world for this kind of videos.
January 2010 - Erasmus lip dub - Newcastle (UK)

The lip dub "Erasmus Newcastle" is considered the first lip dub in Europe recorded by
Erasmus exchange students, with a participation of 27 persons of six different countries.
It is famous as well because it is the first lip dub recorded by students members of one
university (Newcastle University). It is set in Newcastle (UK) and it was produced by
Spanish Erasmus students. The song is "Summer Cat", of Billie the Vision & The
Dancers.

September 2009 - I Gotta Feeling (Canada)

The most famous lip dub is the University of Quebec at Montreal's (UQAM), and is
known as the "I Gotta Feeling" lip dub because of the song by the Black Eyed Peas.
Directed by Luc-Olivier Cloutier and Marie-Eve Hebert, it was recorded on September
10 in the afternoon, and was also shown on CNN. So far it has the highest volume of
views, with over 6 million in YouTube. Also, its behind the scenes is the most watched
of the universities that have uploaded them, with more than 230 000 copies.

May 2009 - EMLYON lip dub (France)

The is the first successful lip dub to use two songs in one video by the EMLYON
Business School in France. An extract of the song "Video Killed the Radio Star" by
Buggles, is put on the song "Pop the Music" of Triim, which extends throughout the
video.

June 2008 - University lip dub # 1 - Germany

The first University lip dub was made by Furtwangen University in Germany, and was
recorded on June 22, 2008. Lip dub reflected in university life as it happens on a normal
day of classes. This video created afterwards the UniversityLipdub.com project.

Information taken from Wikipedia.

LET’S CREATE A LIPDUB OF OUR HIGH SCHOOL!!!

Now in groups of 3-4 prepare a lipdub which will be filmed with all the 4th of ESO
students in our high school.

- Choose a long English song.

- What is the song about?
- Which way can we follow around the school?
- What can you do in the video? How can you be dressed? Are you good at
anything special? What do we need (ballons, signs, etc.)?
- Think about a dance to perform at the end of the video.

Hand in your ideas to the teacher at the end of the class.