Suzanna Chang / en This All-Star Party Show Goes On /news/all-star-party-show-goes <span class="field field--name-title field--type-string field--label-hidden">This All-Star Party Show Goes On</span> <span class="field field--name-uid field--type-entity-reference field--label-hidden"><span>sgupta</span></span> <span class="field field--name-created field--type-created field--label-hidden"><time datetime="2011-11-03T10:18:31-04:00" title="Thursday, November 3, 2011 - 10:18" class="datetime">Thu, 11/03/2011 - 10:18</time> </span> <div class="clearfix text-formatted field field--name-field-cutline-long field--type-text-long field--label-above"> <div class="field__label">Cutline</div> <div class="field__item">老司机直播 Lip Dub behind the scenes (Photo by Jason Shum)</div> </div> <div class="field field--name-field-author-reporters field--type-entity-reference field--label-hidden field__items"> <div class="field__item"><a href="/news/authors-reporters/suzanna-chang" hreflang="en">Suzanna Chang</a></div> </div> <div class="field field--name-field-author-legacy field--type-string field--label-above"> <div class="field__label">Author legacy</div> <div class="field__item">Suzanna Chang</div> </div> <div class="field field--name-field-story-tags field--type-entity-reference field--label-hidden field__items"> <div class="field__item"><a href="/news/tags/student-life" hreflang="en">Student Life</a></div> <div class="field__item"><a href="/news/tags/features" hreflang="en">Features</a></div> <div class="field__item"><a href="/news/tags/digital-media" hreflang="en">Digital Media</a></div> </div> <div class="field field--name-field-subheadline field--type-string-long field--label-above"> <div class="field__label">Subheadline</div> <div class="field__item">Behind the scenes at the 老司机直播 lipdub video shoot</div> </div> <div class="clearfix text-formatted field field--name-body field--type-text-with-summary field--label-hidden field__item"><p>It鈥檚 a warm autumn evening, and the scene on Kings鈥 College Circle is chaos. Music blares from a cube truck stuffed with electronics, and <strong>Sandra Zhou</strong>, a second-year psychology major, is shouting instructions to a group of students 鈥 among the several hundred who have volunteered to take part in today鈥檚 video shoot.<br> <br> Zhou has been on set for 12 hours already. She鈥檚 clutching a half-eaten slice of pizza in one hand. A group of rowdy engineering students arrive wearing coveralls, road crew vests and hard hats. Meanwhile, a lone Range Rover keeps circling King鈥檚 College Circle, getting in the students鈥 way. 鈥淕uys 鈥 car!鈥 shouts Zhou, her voice sounding hoarse. Her megaphone broke earlier.<br> <br> Once today鈥檚 shoot is finished, and the editing and post-production complete, the video 鈥 or lipdub, as this particular genre is called 鈥 will be posted to YouTube and will show, in what is apparently one long, roaming shot, hundreds of 老司机直播 students dancing in costume, lip-synching, performing gymnastics, and otherwise whooping it up to a mash-up of three popular songs. (A teaser, posted <a href="http://bit.ly/pxRCOc">here</a>, shows 老司机直播 president <strong>David Naylor</strong> busting out a few moves of his own).<br> <br> Lipdubs have become popular with university students across North America as a way of demonstrating how exciting their school is. The Universit茅 du Qu茅bec 脿 Montr茅al started the trend in Canada two years ago with a <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-zcOFN_VBVo">spirited romp through the Pavillon Judith-Jasmin</a> to the tune of 鈥淚 Gotta Feeling鈥 by the Black Eyed Peas. Not to be outdone, <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dpp3quce1Vo">UBC produced a video</a> last year that involved celebrity cameos, underwater footage, and a flash mob. It鈥檚 been viewed 1.3 million times on YouTube.<br> <br> At 老司机直播, more than 600 students participated in three days of shooting in mid-September at all three campuses. Planning took months. The song selection, which Zhou says the organizing committee spent a long time considering, includes excerpts from All Star by Smash Mouth, Party Rock Anthem by LMFAO, and The Show Goes On by Lupe Fiasco. In the end, they chose songs that had an 鈥渁nthemic鈥 feel. (Enjoy some behind-the-scenes <a href="http://www.news.utoronto.ca/content/u-t-lipdub">photos</a>.)<br> <br> As the sun sinks below Knox College, preparations for the night-time shoot on King鈥檚 College Circle begin. <strong>Lindsey Middleton</strong>, a UTM theatre student, and alumnus <strong>Allan Zacca</strong> light up their fire poi and stick and start twirling, while dozens of other students 鈥 including one in a cow costume 鈥 crack their glow sticks.<br> <br> <strong>Jason An</strong>, who is studying neuroscience at Innis, couldn鈥檛 imagine being anywhere else tonight. 鈥淚 just thought it was a great idea,鈥 he says, 鈥渋t鈥檚 exactly what 老司机直播 needs.鈥<br> <br> The final cut of the video is scheduled for release on YouTube on Nov. 4.</p> </div> <div class="field field--name-field-news-home-page-banner field--type-boolean field--label-above"> <div class="field__label">News home page banner</div> <div class="field__item">Off</div> </div> <div class="field field--name-field-picpath field--type-string field--label-above"> <div class="field__label">picpath</div> <div class="field__item">sites/default/files/LipDub_LOL_11_11_02.jpg</div> </div> Thu, 03 Nov 2011 14:18:31 +0000 sgupta 3189 at