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1. Choose an historical figure who said something important or meaningful (Trump or any living people do not count).
2. Find an image depicting them that is clearly showing their mouth. And find a quote.
3. Record the quote.
4. Animate their mouth moving as if they are saying the quote. It is best to draw the mouth open, then create a keyframe somewhere else and draw the mouth closed, then just copy and paste the open or closed frames into the timeline as needed to animate to the quote.
You can do this assignment two ways. The first way is to use the whole image as your background and just draw a mouth on a new layer and animate it. The second way is you can redraw the image completely or partially. You can also animate something else in the shot, like the eyes or a something else moving.
1. Add your image as a layer.
2. Create a new layer for the mouth.
3. Draw the new mouth.
4. Right click around frame 5 and choose Insert Blank Keyframe.
Draw the mouth open or closed (depending on how it started). Mine was open. Add frames to your background so you can see it in frame 5.
5. For my picture, the mouth started open so it looks terrible when I close it. So I brought the image into Photoshop and Clone Stamped the mouth away. Remember to use Option-click to set the place where the clone stamp picks up pixels and then paint like a brush over the thing you want to remove.
Adding the sound
1. Add a layer for the soundtrack and drag the soundtrack to the stage.
2. Add frames to the soundtrack until the sound ends. Add frames to the other layers as well to make them last as long as the sound.
3. Go to where the waveform is big and add a blank keyframe in the mouth layer. Then go back to the keyframe where your mouth is big, click it, and Command-C to copy it.
4. Go to the blank keyframe and use the menu to Edit > Paste in Place. This puts the lips exactly where they were before.
5. Go to where the waveform is small and Insert a blank keyframe. Copy/Paste in Place the small mouth.
6. Go through the timeline and copy/paste your keyframes to make the mouth move.
You may find you need some "oh" sounds or some other mouth shapes. Go in and put them where you need them to make the person look like they are speaking the words.
Export your animation to Final Cut and finish it with environment sounds or music, a title, and upload to Youtube.
We are keeping it simple but if you want to know how the pros do it, take a look here.
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