lip flap

English

Noun

lip flap (countable and uncountable, plural lip flaps)

1. (film) A failure in audio-video synchronization, so that an actor's lips move but no sound is heard.
2. (film) A movement of an actor's lips, which is to be matched as closely as possible in a dubbed version of the film.
   • 1972, Filmmakers Newsletter‎^[1], volume 5, number 7, part 12, page 46:

     […] pick it up earlier or later where there is no lip-flap. But if you must take it there, then you must precede it with another shot of the same speaker at a different angle, hopefully closer.

   • 2009, Shawn Klomparens, Two Years, No Rain‎^[2], page 49:

     “So when we translate,” Lam was saying, “it's all about what we call lip flaps. Like, how many times does mouth move? We match translation more to mouth than to what words really mean.

   • 2010, Josef Steiff, Tristan D. Tamplin, Anime and Philosophy: Wide Eyed Wonder‎^[3]:

     For the dubbed version, we would start with this translated script and then work to create a new script, which would closely match the lip flaps and intonations of the character onscreen

3. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see lip,‎ flap.