2018 Lip Dub Journal

Phillip Cheramie, Critic

Boutte, LA-
After watching the Final Lip Dub video, what are you final thoughts on how the video came out? What are some things that you liked about it? What are some things that needed to be improved (and how could we have improved them)? I think the video came out very professionally. -> The steady Cam worked really well and made it look like we were hired to record it. It had a very smooth transition between AM and PM as well as a very creative ending. I think the people’s knowledge of the lyrics could have been better in the AM half of the Lip Dub and that was up to them but they did not take their role seriously.

Do you think we accomplished our goal of making a video that appropriately promotes the Satellite Center? Did we avoid the same mistakes that other groups had in past years? -> I believe our video did adequately promote the Satellite Center as a whole, and although we did not avoid all past mistakes, we corrected what we could and made it better.

What was the biggest challenge we faced throughout the course of the project? Do you think we overcame that challenge or were the issues reflected in the video? What is your #1 takeaway from this project? ->   The biggest challenge was definitely working with the AM class because our two classes had somewhat differing opinions on how the video should have looked. I think we did overcome these challenges when we all realized this video wasn’t a competition but a group effort to make the best video we could. My biggest takeaway from this project was definitely that if you are confident and loud people will listen to what you have to say and more importantly they will act upon what you have said.

When planning this project again in the future, what should I do differently? What advice do you have for the next group that comes along to complete this video? -> You should allow more time for practice runs and to find out who hasn’t memorized their lines to make the video more visually appealing. Make it very clear to the class that you represent that they need to know their few lines forwards and backwards.