YSUnity looks to lip-dub video to get group more views on campus
Richard Queale REPORTER
Issue date: 2/9/10 Section: Features
If you've visited YouTube in the past few months, then you've most likely run across lip-dub videos. They have become an Internet sensation, and high schools and colleges around the world have wasted no time developing their own.
For those who don't know what a lip dub is, it's a music video that combines lip-synching and audio dubbing.
YSUnity, a student organization at Youngstown State University that promotes the awareness of issues relating to lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, questioning, inter-sex students and their allies, has decided to make a viral video. The event has been named Project Lip dub and is run by YSUnity Vice President Nick Iacobucci.
After weeks of consideration, YSUnity members have decided to use Blue October's "Jump Rope" for their lip dub. Iacobucci said the lip dub will be filmed April 5 at the M-1 parking deck, the pedestrian bridge and Kilcawley Center.
Lip-dub videos have been popular online lately with many receiving millions of views and even garnering media coverage.
The University of Quebec-Montreal's communications department did a lip dub to the Black Eyed Peas' song "I Got a Feeling" in 2009. More than 172 students were involved in the lip dub, and since its debut on YouTube it has received more than 4.5 million views.
YSUnity hopes the event will have similar success on the YSU campus and help draw more attention to the group.
"We're basically trying to get widely noticed on campus," Iacobucci said. "That is our main focus."
YSUnity will be holding sign-ups for Project Lip dub all month and will have tables set up in Kilcawley Center on Feb. 18 and 26. Also, anyone who can't make it to Kilcawley Center on those days can go to
http://www.ysu.edu/stu_org/ysunity/ysunity_007.htm and fill out a form.
YSUnity encourages individuals, groups and organizations to take part in this event.
"Our sign-ups are open to anyone interested," Iacobucci said. "We are aiming to get other student organizations and individuals to join the lip dub."
YSUnity President Javonne LaFontaine said the group holds meetings in Kilcawley Center's Cochran Room on Tuesdays at 3:30 p.m.
"If people want to participate, we are very open and welcoming to anyone that can contribute to our meetings," LaFontaine said. "Our overall goal is to make YSU's campus a more understanding and safer place.
For those who don't know what a lip dub is, it's a music video that combines lip-synching and audio dubbing.
YSUnity, a student organization at Youngstown State University that promotes the awareness of issues relating to lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, questioning, inter-sex students and their allies, has decided to make a viral video. The event has been named Project Lip dub and is run by YSUnity Vice President Nick Iacobucci.
After weeks of consideration, YSUnity members have decided to use Blue October's "Jump Rope" for their lip dub. Iacobucci said the lip dub will be filmed April 5 at the M-1 parking deck, the pedestrian bridge and Kilcawley Center.
Lip-dub videos have been popular online lately with many receiving millions of views and even garnering media coverage.
The University of Quebec-Montreal's communications department did a lip dub to the Black Eyed Peas' song "I Got a Feeling" in 2009. More than 172 students were involved in the lip dub, and since its debut on YouTube it has received more than 4.5 million views.
YSUnity hopes the event will have similar success on the YSU campus and help draw more attention to the group.
"We're basically trying to get widely noticed on campus," Iacobucci said. "That is our main focus."
YSUnity will be holding sign-ups for Project Lip dub all month and will have tables set up in Kilcawley Center on Feb. 18 and 26. Also, anyone who can't make it to Kilcawley Center on those days can go to
http://www.ysu.edu/stu_org/ysunity/ysunity_007.htm and fill out a form.
YSUnity encourages individuals, groups and organizations to take part in this event.
"Our sign-ups are open to anyone interested," Iacobucci said. "We are aiming to get other student organizations and individuals to join the lip dub."
YSUnity President Javonne LaFontaine said the group holds meetings in Kilcawley Center's Cochran Room on Tuesdays at 3:30 p.m.
"If people want to participate, we are very open and welcoming to anyone that can contribute to our meetings," LaFontaine said. "Our overall goal is to make YSU's campus a more understanding and safer place.
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