I Love You Dad / Father’s Day
There was a lot of dialogue required for ADR. All outdoors shots needed to be redubbed as the weather conditions ruined any and all sound recordings, which hugely impacted the dialogue beyond anything. The first ADR we recorded was for Thomas Klos, who played a construction worker in the film. He required very little direction in terms of his ADR performance, besides reminding him to shout and getting extra takes for different inflections. Next we had to focus on the main actor, Alex Morningstar, who was great to meet and work with, and whose lines were the most important to get right as his availability was quite limited. Directing Alex was a great exercise in learning which words to use to get the right performance, such as suggesting he yell rather than shout, as “shout” was getting us rather timid results, whereas “yell” got us just the right sound on the first attempt. our final ADR performance was from Danny, who played the 2nd construction worker. Having him ADR was an interesting experience as his character had to respond to some ad-libbed lines from Tom as his first line, rather than scripted interaction. This meant having him run through some test responses to set levels and check inflection and volume before giving him the go ahead, which worked like a dream.
In technical terms, I adjusted the height of the microphone for each actor and reset the levels for each actors performance, as well as giving regular directions in terms of distance from microphone to prevent popping and proximity effect, such as suggesting that Alex be 3 feet from the microphone during his yell both to prevent popping and proximity. The microphone we used was an SE Electronics X1 as it had a cardioid pickup meaning we could avoid bleed from the sound theatre.
The Real Pirate
For this project, I am planning on taking on the animation team to have them perform some fun voice acting work for their film, as I feel that it would help with fostering that collaborative atmosphere and relationship I wanted with the team, as well as making sure the performance they have for these characters is as accurate as possible to their intentions with the film. However, for the project as it’s being submitted, the voice acting for the main character was done by myself and the scream from the man on the dock at the end was performed by Finn Thomas, whose setup choices were similar to that of the ADR done by Alex for ‘Fathers Day’.
