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254 SoundWeek 10

• Archival Project Due in Lab Next Week!

•Be prepared to show your project in lab next

week. External drive or thumb drive, please.

• Hand in your PTF file and post finished projectto my site before the NEXT lab.

• This week in lab: Work On Projects! Plus, the newand improved TA Theater, or “how to use a wirelessmic”

•By next Monday: Barbera Ching in Wojic “Sounding the

American Heart” (surprise quiz!)

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ADR

• Ain’t nothing “automatic” about it! Used in both

fiction and non-fiction.

• Master & Commander, T2, etc. The majority of these

films are “looped.”

• Challenge: matching sound quality and performance.

• One strategy: record “wild” takes immediately after

scene was shot.

• In the studio ADR--break dialog into overlapping

chunks

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ADR Tools

• FCP “Voice Over Tool” allows you to recordmultiple takes while watching a clip and listening todialog on headphones.

• Puts the recorded audio on an empty track in FCP

• Once all clips are recorded, export OMF to ProTools and use VocAlign plug in.

• VocAlign makes micro cuts, and time compressionsand expansion to lock new audio to original. Prettyamazing. Watch for gaps.

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Voice Over

•Is there a predjudice against VO in fiction films?

• What are the qualities of the voice, especially

the voice of the narrator?

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• One way to Actor-Proof a film (for those actors

who can’t walk and talk)

• Narrators need to be directed even more thanactors.

• Write your own VO and say it yourself--use the

VO tool in FCP.

• Mix up dialog and narration to avoid monotony.

VO How to:

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• The following Gods Must Be Crazy clip lampoons the“Voice of God”.

VO in Non-Fiction Film

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• With this is in mind, many folks say: “Show, don’t tell.”But doesn’t just “showing” promote the idea that

“reality” is not constructed by the filmmaker?

• “Salesmen” is classic verite documentary. Is it any less“constructed” than a film with voice over?

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Alternatives to VO

• “Tarnation”: Using Titles, Sound Design,overlapping audio

• “What’s Up Fatlip?” Using sucky audio

because the story is compelling.

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