Blog Post 4

On our class trip to the Museum of the Moving Image, our tour guide took us to several of the demonstrations dealing with various forms of media production. The one that I found quite interesting and fun was the Automated Dialogue Replacement booth. We chose a scene with Marilyn Monroe where we actually had four students do the voice over for her lines both guys and girls. We learned in class how ADR is used in film making if there were any technical issues during shooting like the audio of a character not being clear enough or if there was any unwanted noise that they would want to edit out. While in the booth, I realized the importance of listening to the re-looping of the scene and the importance of the rehearsal prior to recording so that the audio and video match. Aside from clarity, it was cool to see how ADR can be used for parody purposes as well where someone other than the actual character re recorded the lines. When the guys recited Monroe's lines everyone couldn't help but laugh. With a simple tool as ADR we can see two different types of narratives, a realistic one and a parody, by simply changing the audio just like we learned how pairing two different images can evoke different meanings depending on how they are paired. It was cool to see how slightly altering one element of a film can change the entirety of the feeling the audience receives while viewing the final product. The most important thing I learned from this demonstration is being able to understand how a small change in detail can alter the larger picture and that to me is a clever tool to have as a media producer.