ADR

ADR Ollie 7^th Dec

This was one of many sessions in the sound theatre, first of which was a ADR session with the films main character Ollie. The mic we had chosen to use was the Rode NTG2 as it was the same mic that we had used to capture our onset dialogue with, and so that ADR would match the location audio as much as possible.For this session we used Protool’s Playlist function on a loop so we would record 10-15 takes for each line and then choose the best matches the on screen dialogue, and if we had to , give the actors some critique in getting the performance we needed out of them . I would later go on to match up and fine tune the dialogue as there is a bit of latency we recording in to Protools, as the buffer size as at 2048 due to the number of inputs and 5.1 output this particular Protools system has to process.

We had another ADR session for the other actors which followed the same process.

If I were to do it again I would like to do it in the same style as below , in which there is a countdown timer so that the actors know when to come in and the script on screen in a karaoke style.

Day 8 and 9

27^th November – 16.30 – 3 Temple Gardens LN2 1NP Outside

29^th November – 13.00 – 179 Carholme Road LN1 1RU Bathroom Scene

The Last 2 scenes were just pickup shots and so we weren’t needed as there would be music over these particular scenes.

Day 7

Day 7 – 26^th November – 12.00 – Richmond Road

This will be the 3^rd outdoor scene and for me, it’s the worst conditions we had worked in so far.

Despite it been quite a bright dry day the temperature was very cold , so cold in fact that it was killing the battery’s in our equipment , a new set of AA batteries would only last about 5 minutes’ in our zoom recorder that we’d used on that day. That on top of the very strong winds made most of our recording on that day unusable.

I couldn’t feel any of my limbs

Day 6

Day 6 – 24^th November – 15.30 – 3 Temple Gardens LN2 1NP

This will be the 4^th indoor scene at the same location as we were on day 4

This proved to be one of the more challenging scenes to record as there were 2 people in shot with dialogue with a lot of movement in a relatively confided space. However I think we pulled it off quite nicely.

Day 5

Day 5 23^rd November – 16.00 – 91 Carholme Road LN1 1RT

This is the 3^rd indoor scene. One of most noticeable things about this short film is that despite it looking like we shot just 2 houses , there were in fact 5.

We would usually swap around roles between monitoring and boom op, the reason for a separate person to monitor was to give us the flexibility of not been restrained to the camera, so that one person can just focus on having the mic in the correct position and the other person making sure gains are set correctly and that the DP doesn’t trip over the cables feeding the camera.