Today is November 25th, 2015. We have gathered at MOMI at 11a.m., and were toured through various exhibits and demonstrations relating to media production. Some demonstrations that had to do with audio editing were of particular interest to me, since I'm a musician interested in audio engineering. Primarily, the demonstration on automatic dialogue replacement (ADR), really struck me, because it turned out to be so much easier to replace synced dialogue in post production than I expected it to be. Our group of twenty Hunter college students entered a small 4 by 4 yard audio isolated soundproof room, in which there was a large tv screen, a microphone, and headphones. We picked a scene from the classic film "Some Like it Hot," and replaced a thirty second snippet of Marilyn Monroe's voice with our own voices by following a karaoke like procedure. Firstly we played back the 30 seconds of the movie with subtitles lighting up as the actors spoke. While observing the actor's lip movement and the lighting up of the subtitles on the screen, we listened to the recording of the actors' voices, while trying to internalize the rhythmic, melodic, and intonation structure that the actors originally had in the scene. When we got the sense of what the dialogue was supposed to sound like, we clicked the record button, and after being counted in, recorded our voices over the original recording. The results were really close to being in sync with the images on screen, and with a little bit of post editing, could be made seamless. The whole process of a 30 second ADR took us only a couple of minutes, which struck me as being so fast and so accurately in sync with the original image. ADR created a whole new level of audio quality in the world of moving images, by creating an option to fix sound design bloopers in post production.
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