also, lest you think we intend to rest on our laurels when this somethingness is all said and done. the last line of the next thing is currently: "are you contractually obliged to be an asshole, or is that still a hobby?"
more on that later...
Monday, June 26, 2006
cutting syllables
we've been working on adr (automated dialog replacement, for you laymen) and foley (original sound effects) for the last week or so, and so far:so good. the editing of this adr is really the only difficult part. there are little tricks to getting things to synch up (e.g. i prefer to leave the original "scratch" track in place and slide the adr track back and forth by a frame or two until the echo is as minimal as possible), but it's such detailed, meticulous work. it's funny, you can actually cut an entire syllable out of a word that lasts a frame or two too long and, as long as the lips synch up, the brain just fills in what's missing. the scary part is that it's impossible for me to know how these lines are going to sound to an audience. i mean, i've lived with the scratch tracks for so long that, even in their imperfections, they sound right to me. this is where our post-production audio dude/dudette comes in. hopefully, when all is said and done, he/she'll take these clean new tracks and dirty 'em up a little bit. fit them with the right amount of reverb and eq them into normalcy so they closely match our production audio.
but besides the adr, the fun part of the last couple weeks has been recording the little details: a flight attendant's announcement over the airport pa, aaron's voice mail recordings, the little whistle that joe's nose makes when he exhales with vigor.
anyway, things are coming together quite nicely. i'm about a week or so away from a locking down picture and i feel really confident in the project as a whole right now. (but this might be because i haven't shown it to anyone in quite a while - even joe just the weekend got to take a look at it for the first time in over a month.) hopefully, we'll be able to finish strong.
but besides the adr, the fun part of the last couple weeks has been recording the little details: a flight attendant's announcement over the airport pa, aaron's voice mail recordings, the little whistle that joe's nose makes when he exhales with vigor.
anyway, things are coming together quite nicely. i'm about a week or so away from a locking down picture and i feel really confident in the project as a whole right now. (but this might be because i haven't shown it to anyone in quite a while - even joe just the weekend got to take a look at it for the first time in over a month.) hopefully, we'll be able to finish strong.
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