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Originally Posted by Neil Whippey  I'm talking about the rich texture you hear when watching a top end Hollywood standard mix.
Does anyone have any good starting tips for this... things to consider etc? |
Hire a top hollywood production sound mixer/recordist with a truck full of high quality mics (lavs and booms) to choose from for each shot.
When I've looked at the original dialogue sessions from Pirates of the Caribbean, Van Helsing, and the new Travolta movie Old Dogs (I have a friend that is a dialogue editor), the dialogue sounds that way from the start. While the mixers do a lot to the dialogue sometimes, it's more to get the timbre to match between takes in a scene, and not to do an overall "warm up" the sound. What you hear on the screen is 80~90% what is recorded on set AND in ADR.
That's another important point. If something sounds thin or like crap in a "big hollywood" film. They replace it with ADR. Period. Seriously. That's it. There's no secret, there's no tricks, there's no magic.