G324: Lip Syncing

Lip Syncing is the movement of lips to a pre recorded song to give the appearance that the person who is performing is the one who is singing.

The film track and music track are recorded separately during the creation of a music video, the artists usually lip-sync to their songs and often imitate playing musical instruments as well. Artists also sometimes move their lips at a faster speed from the track, to create videos with a slow-motion effect in the final clip. Some artists have also been known to lip-sync backwards for music videos such that, when reversed, the singer is seen to sing forwards while time appears to move backwards for his or her surroundings these make interesting music videos when watched.

Lip syncing is done quite often when the artist is performing at a live concert because they are auto tuned in the actual track and don't want to sound bad on stage. Lip syncing is improtant because the artist can't always sing to the song for the whole time they are performing on the stage, especially if they are dancing at the same time.



This person on YouTube has done a compilation of different songs and he has lip-synced to them, I thought this would be a good example of lip syncing when he clearly isn't actually singing every song.