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From: elf@utcsri.UUCP (Eugene Fiume)
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Subject: Re: Videos, in general (and Godley and Creme)
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Date: Tue, 2-Jul-85 09:13:43 EDT
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> There are lots of awful videos
> that use no lip-synching, and lots of great videos that do use
> lip-synching.  Whether lip-synching is used or not should be determined
> by what the video is trying to convey.  For example, if is is decided
> that the song should be presented as a message from the artist (or a
> character put on by the artist) to you the viewer, then lip-synching
> seems very appropriate.
> 
> 				 Doug Alan
 				  nessus@mit-eddie.UUCP (or ARPA)

I largely disagree with this (thereby agreeing with Jeff), but that's just
a matter of personal whim.  But check out Godley and Creme's new video for
"Cry".  There, the lip-synch technique is taken to an extreme, with
different faces dissolving into one another, all of which are "synching"
the words to the song.  I find the video somewhat disturbing but very
entertaining.  The dissovling reminds me somewhat of "composite videos"
that have been in the SIGGRAPH film show the last couple of outings.  I
think some MITer's (MITians?) did those.  Does anyone have more info on
whether Godley and Creme borrowed their technique?


Eugene Fiume
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