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ADR
Director & Engineer should be aware that this may be the
talent’s first time in a recording facility or even on a
microphone.
This experience may be awkward to a first time talent.
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ADR
Director & Engineer must be patient with the talent. Especially if this is the talent’s first ADR experience. If your
talent becomes the least bit discouraged, it could cost you
the emotional intensity of their scene.
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ADR Director should relay all suggestions to the Engineer and
not the talent. The
talent will be overwhelmed if he or she has two or more people
making creative suggestions at once.
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ADR Director & Engineer should be the only ones wearing
audio headphones if this is your talent’s first time
performing ADR. Usually, if the first time talent hears
his/her voice loud and clear through the audio headphones,
they usually become very self conscious of how they sound to
themselves. This will be a huge downfall to your film
production.
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Have
talent preview and/or act out their scenes prior to performing
their ADR. This will help remind them and keep continuity of
their energy given throughout their visual performance.
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The
talent must be given a word-for-word written script for
reference. A lot of times
actors may improvise on the set so that means the talent must
have their improvised lines transcribed and ready in time for
their ADR performance.
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It
is very crucial to each scene that the talent MUST deliver the
same energy they did in their visual performance. If
not the same, then make it better! You’ll find that
experimenting with different inflections or stressing
different words during ADR can help a scene move your story
along much easier.
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Soundproof your recording area the best you can! Most of us
aren’t blessed with a built-in sound booth in our homes, so
we have to make do. Try to cover the walls the best you can
with comforters, blankets, anything - to help absorb the sound
in the room and prevent the soundwaves from ricocheting off of
the hard and flat walls. The
softer and more contoured the room is, the better it is for
deadening the sound for recording.
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Don’t place the
talent too close to the mic. If you do, then it
could give a false “spatial” feeling. A good rule of thumb
is to have them stand about 2 feet away from the mic. From
there you can better gauge where to place them according to
their visual space in the scene.
