Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site utcsri.UUCP Path: utzoo!utcsri!elf From: elf@utcsri.UUCP (Eugene Fiume) Newsgroups: net.music Subject: Re: Videos, in general (and Godley and Creme) Message-ID: <1219@utcsri.UUCP> Date: Tue, 2-Jul-85 09:13:43 EDT Article-I.D.: utcsri.1219 Posted: Tue Jul 2 09:13:43 1985 Date-Received: Tue, 2-Jul-85 09:34:39 EDT References: <1584@dciem.UUCP> <4557@mit-eddie.UUCP> Distribution: net Organization: CSRI, University of Toronto Lines: 27 [] > 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 {decvax|allegra}!utcsri!elf