Quote:
Originally Posted by DynaForte  One more question apple-q - In your experience on 60 films, how is the reverb on dialogue used? Center only? 5.1 reverb? etc..
Thanks! |
It depends on what kind of scene you´re working on. In small quiet place anything more then a mono reverb in the center on ADR might sound fake because when you have a mono production sound with natural reverb it will only be in the center as well. So you won´t be able to match ADR and production by spilling a lot of high-end pristine 5.0 reverb on the ADR. Sometimes a mono reverb will sound more natural and less distracting.
Sometimes it´s better to have a 5.0 or stereo reverb to tell the storry about the room a bit more.
It´s up to you. There are no real rules. Dialog mixers try to make the dialog (ADR and production) sound consistent so it doesn´t distract people from the story.
Regarding your other initial questions:
There a many reasons for ADR: Distorted recordings, too much noise, mumbling, too roomey, director wants to change lines because the cut has changed a lot, wrong expression, change of expression, character needs to be re-voiced because of wrong accent or poor performance etc. etc. etc.
That a film is 100% ADR is extremely rare IMO. Actually I haven´t done this ONCE in my career apart from animation of course.
As said before 99% of all directors will prefer the production sound (at least the ones I´ve worked with) and find doing ADR always a difficult step unless they hate the proformance anyway.