Lyrical lip-synching.(video)

Velocity Design Group in New York City helped HBO coordinate a sing-along for a television branding campaign featuring 35 of the network's hottest stars from shows such as The Sopranos and Sex and the City. In the spot, the individual actors and actresses are shown in quick succession singing--or, more accurately, lip-synching--to Mel Torme's rendition of "Comin" Home Baby."

To create the spot, producer Kathy Rocklein and the Velocity staff sifted through scores of tapes from the shows to find the longest moments of serendipitous synchronization of the actors' lip movements to the song lyrics.

While some of the snippets appeared perfectly synchronized to segments of the song, others were not. For these, the group had to put words, or more accurately, lyrics, into each star's mouth by juxtaposing the numerous ...