Lip Dub 05: the Year of the Swag

Behind the Scenes with FOX 50 Creative Services Producer Phillipe Charles:

The 2015 FOX 50 Lip Dub Promo gang.

It's the 5th year of the FOX 50 Lip Dub Project, and we really wanted to make some NOISE (which isn't easy to do when you're lip syncing.) Every year we turn our promo itself into a lip dub video and recruit CBC employees to get their dance on and bust some sweet lip syncing that would make Milli Vanilli jealous. But this year we wanted to make an even bigger bang or as the kids say we wanted to TURN UP!

The cool thing about a lip dub is that, even though participants lip sync to someone else's song, they can make the performance COMPLETELY their own. That's what we wanted to show in this year's Lip Dub promo. So, the concept of the video was a group of eager Lip Dubbers literally taking over an unsuspecting rapper's performance. Hip Hop was the perfect theme because, not only is it a very popular genre amongst high school kids, it is also the subject of Empire, the biggest show on FOX right now.

The making of the FOX 50 Lip Dub Promo 2015.

Personally, as the music producer, I was very excited because Hip Hop is my musical home base and I'm pretty familiar with it. But I was super impressed by how well everyone else completely embodied the hip hop swag! They quickly learned the choreography, embraced their rapper names, got the wardrobe just right, and brought the kind of attitude that would send Kanye West scrambling on stage to declare a Grammy was deserved!

The FOX 50 Lip Dub Project is one the most fulfilling things that we do at FOX 50 because we get to give back to our local community by rewarding creativity and school unity! But it's also a blast to work with talented coworkers who know how to BRING IT!

Directors: Phillipe Charles, Marc Derro

Camera/Lights/Set Design: Scott Reid, Glenn Dion

Main Lip Dubbers: Phillipe Charles, Jason Matthews, Melissa Carney, Lynda Loveland

Extras/Dancers: Sierra Clark, Keyetta Mangum, Karin Fullington, Terri Overby, Doug Dickman, Brad Schaible, Debbie Bare, LaTonya Jones

Music Producer: Phillipe Charles

Graphic Designer/Sign Maker: Gayle Hardy

Find out more about the FOX 50 Lip Dub Project, watch the promo and find out how to enter HERE

Thanks to FOX 50's Phillipe Charles for this capcom story & to FOX 50's Karin Fullington for these capcom photos.

The 2015 FOX 50 Lip Dub Promo gang.

The making of the FOX 50 Lip Dub Promo 2015.

The making of the FOX 50 Lip Dub Promo 2015.

The making of the FOX 50 Lip Dub Promo 2015.

FOX 50s Lip Dub

FOX 50s Melissa Carney (left) & Karin Fullington, aka MC Hard & K-Dawg.

FOX 50s Terri Overby (left) & FOX 50s Sierra Clarke, aka T-Ohhhh and Pound Cake

FOX 50s Marc Derro (l to r), Glenn Dion & Scott Reid set the shoot up on the monitor, watching FOX 50s Jason Matthews in action.

FOX 50s Doug Dickman, aka Doug E Stiff

FOX 50s Melissa Carney, aka MC Hard

FOX 50s Sierra Clarke, aka Pound Cake

FOX 50s Karin Fullington, aka K-Dawg

FOX 50s Phillipe Charles, aka PC Charles

FOX 50s LaTonya Jones, aka Lil T

FOX 50s Terri Overby, aka T-Ohhhh

FOX 50s Jason Matthews, aka Staff

FOX 50s Phillipe Charles checks out the monitor.

The making of the FOX 50 Lip Dub Promo 2015.

FOX 50s Jason Matthews (l to r), Phillipe Charles & Melissa Carney, aka Stiff, PC Charles & MC Hard.

FOX 50s Brad Schaible, aka OD Master Brad

WRAL-TVs Keyetta Mangum, aka Killer K

WRAL-TVs Lynda Loveland, aka Big Shorty

WRAL-TVs Debbie Bare, aka Snack Cake

LINK:	http://www.capitolbroadcasting.com/2015/02/23/lip-dub-2015-the-year-of...
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