{"id":231,"date":"2009-12-22T10:06:47","date_gmt":"2009-12-22T18:06:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/coldstreams.com\/video\/?p=231"},"modified":"2009-12-22T10:06:47","modified_gmt":"2009-12-22T18:06:47","slug":"the-lip-dub-video-phenomena-about-to-sweep-youtube","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/3d\/2009\/12\/22\/the-lip-dub-video-phenomena-about-to-sweep-youtube\/","title":{"rendered":"The “Lip Dub” video phenomena about to sweep YouTube"},"content":{"rendered":"

Back in July of 2008, students at Hochschule Furtwangen University created a video they called “University LipDub #1<\/a>“. Go watch it – its fun! Created as a single long moving camera shot, the video features numerous students collectively lip synching to a piece of music.<\/p>\n

They created a web site, universitylipdub.com<\/a> to encourage other campuses to create similar videos – they even included some tips on how to make your own. And they encouraged other universities to create their own. (They were not the first with this idea – for example, a group of Microsoft employees made their own lip dub back in December 2007<\/a>. The founder of Vimeo first suggested the idea and coined the term “lip dub”.)<\/p>\n

The idea for these may have originated, in part, from the incredible Russian Ark<\/a> – the only feature film produced with a single take. Over 2,000 actors and 3 live orchestras – 300 years of Russian history come to life in this spectacular motion pictured filmed in a single day in the Hermitage Museum in St Petersburg, Russia. (I was mesmerized by the spectacle of this amazing movie. This is a six star movie.)<\/p>\n

It took until the 2nd half of 2009 for the lip dub phenomena to begin to take off. We are in only the earliest stage of this – these videos are likely to sweep the online world within the next few months.<\/p>\n