To raise school spirit around LHS, the Practical Leadership class has arranged for students to create a school wide lip dub. On May 1st, every student and faculty member at Liberty will gather at various locations around the school to mouth the words to various songs such as Roar by Katy Perry, Good Time by Owl City, I Like it Like That by Hot Chelle Rae and several others.
“We planned it on a school day, so we expect majority of students to be here for it,” Practical Leadership teacher, Marla Badalucco said.
For those of you who don’t know what a lip dub is, it’s a type of video that combines lip syncing and audio dubbing (an overlay of audio on video) to make a music video shot in only one take.
May 1st will be a scheduled EOC day from the start of school until around noon, then since all students are required to stay until 3:15 for an entire school day the rest of the time will be set aside to record the lip dub.
Every single person will have a chance for their faces to be shown as a camera runs around the school recording the video in only one take. Every single sports team and club will filmed and one representative from each group will step forward to mouth the words to a fraction of the mash-up.
Several other schools in the Kansas City area have made lip dubs like Staley and Oak Park created a 13-minute remix of Tik Tok by Ke$ha.
“We really want students to get involved in the school” Junior Michael McHale said “Practical Leadership has some awesome and fun ideas that we really would like to introduce to everyone”
There’s a little bit of a time gap until this happens, but that should help build more anticipation for when the day finally comes. This lip dub will not only be a great opportunity to interact with fellow students, it’ll also give those who don’t go to LHS a pang of jealousy when the video is released. They’ll wish their school had thought of it first.
Get ready, LHS! Step up to the plate and don’t be shy! We want the world to know what the Blue Jays are made of!
