NEW IDEA!

Recently I went to a event at one of the Sense centers, where my mum works, and met some of the students there. Sense is a charity that provides education and care for deaf/blind adults and children. Whilst I was there I was watching the students using sign language and it got me thinking if there are any music videos out there which incorporate sign language. I had a look when I got home on YouTube and there were a few but not that many. Although people who are deaf can't hear the music they can still feel the beat from the music, and some people who are partially deaf can still hear some of the music they just need help to understand the lyrics.

I think for my music video I might like to make a video for people who are deaf which uses sign language. I think this would be a good project because, alothough there are music videos out there which use sign language most of them aren't very creative, and it would be nice to make a video that has a particular purpose.


INSPIRATION:   LEE'S BSL MUSIC VIDEOS


Whilst looking on the internet for music videos which incoroporate sign language I found the page of LEES a deaf studies student at Bristol University. I really like his videos he basically takes popular songs and then signs along to them, whilst beeing as expressive as possible. I like Lee's videos as I think he tries really hard to make his videos as accessible as possible to people who have hearing imparements. Overall Lee has uploaded an impressive 361 videos across a wide variety of music genres.

Lee's Profile: 

 

Name: Lee

Channel Views: 55,266

Total Upload Views: 404,201

Joined: 4 Jun 2008

Last Visit Date: 2 weeks ago

Subscribers: 1,655

 

I'm here to make songs accessible for the D/deaf and hard of hearing. There's aren't many people doing BSL songs, and those have have been making them have stopped. I love signing songs, and I hope you'll enjoy them as well. So please subscribe and I'll make some more!

Unfortunately I don't take requests. I do sign a variety of music genres and artists so I'm bound to do your favourite!

About Me:

 

Heyup people! I'm Lee, 19 years old, and a Deaf Studies student at the University of Bristol (hoping to become a BSL interpreter). I love to sign and I love music, so I thought why not put the 2 together!

And I'm hearing, let me clarify that, but that's not to say that Deaf people can't sign songs, cuz they are amazing at signing songs themselves. Actually everyone can sign songs if they believe they can and they want to. It annoys me when people say "I'll never be as good as you", cuz everyone can do anything they want to if they put their minds to it. Cliche I know, but it's a precious cliche.

 

I think Lee's music videos are really inspirational and I would like to try and creat something similar.

Lip Syncing Video FINISHED

I have now finished my Lip Syncing video. The song we choose to do was 'Anyone Else But You' by the Mouldy Peaches. We filmed the footage one together, and then both individually. To make sure our mouths were moving in time to the music we played the music in the background, and mouthed along as it was filmed.
Afterwards I edited the footage using Adobe Elements. I found this really difficult as I had never done this before. We took the sound of the footage and placed the track over the top. It was really difficult to make sure the sound fitted in time with our mouths but eventually I started to get the hang of it. I didn't finish the whole video but I definetly did enough to make sure I understood how it is done, and it has definetly prepared me for when I am shooting my own video.

The video is bellow- enjoy!