The school has not done a lip dub since 2019. A group of this year’s Wolf Pack Crew seniors decided it was time to bring it back on April 1 as a part of their project. Senior Eugene Giam is helping put it together.
“The lip dub is a video where there’s [going to] be a camera, and all the different clubs and activities are [going to] be in specific spots,” Giam said. “It’s a big end-of-the-year thing where it’s celebrating what all the clubs have done and just giving everybody the recognition.”
Giam has been reaching out to all the lip-syncers to make the event happen, as well as being in videos for the promotion. WPC has worked on this with the help of WolfByte. Sophomore Raina Hilaly is a part of WolfByte, helping make the video product.
“We’re doing the route, the camera work and we’re figuring out how to distribute ourselves with WPC to make sure everyone’s in the hallways correctly,” Hilaly said. “We assigned roles, like, we assigned the person who’s [going to] be walking back with the camera [and] we also made the audio.”
Hilaly said with how big the project has been, it is difficult to communicate with all the people involved. Giam agreed and said it has been difficult to schedule the lip dub as well as meeting with so many people.
“It’s really hard to reach out to a bunch of people and get them to respond. It takes a lot of time to get back from people,” Giam said. “We had to contact all the lip-syncers. I had to email, like, 90 people, [and] that took a while [as] not everyone checks their emails.”
Giam worked alongside WPC sponsor Margaret Davidson. Davidson has been facilitating all of the work on the lip dub. Davidson said she helps, but it is mostly student-run. Davidson has seen past lip dubs but feels this year’s will be different.
“I think Southwest school spirit has increased. So, I think it’ll be more hype than normal or at least than what you saw in the years past,” Davidson said. “The goal is to make it more fun than the [past] years have been.”
The students who are lip-syncing will be wearing clothing to represent their sport or activity. WPC wants and encourages all of the students who are not singing to dress up as well.
“For the day of dress, make sure you go all out in school colors,” Davidson said. “If you’re in a group or sport or club, dress out in those things that you guys typically wear, and just come ready to be excited and show off some spirit.
The lip-sync is meant to raise school spirit and bring everyone together. Davidson and Giam both said they hope the school does it again in the future alongside WolfByte.
“I hope that we’re able to do this in years to come,” Hilaly said. “ I know this is a senior project, but it is something that our school has done before, so hopefully we’re able to do it maybe every four years.”
