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Dubbing Dialogue - Evaluation

For this i used the Mean Girls scene in the canteen. At first i watched the scene and had to write the script of the dialogue so that me and Sofia could work out which character we were going to play. I decided to be Regina and Sofia, Cady. We picked these characters as  felt i could do the role better and Sofia chose Cady as she preferred the dialogue. At first we turned the sound down in the scene - it wasn't completely muted - so we could partially hear what was said so it was easier for us to be in sync, we used headphone so we could record directly into GarageBand. Once we had recored we found this method didn't work as sharing a microphone proved that at parts the sound went in and out and caught in a feedback loop. For our second attempt we didn't use headphones and we spoke directly into the laptop, with sound from the video still there but this time once we listened to the recording back again, you could hear the recording and we weren't able to take the soun...

Fight Club

Fight Club uses more real life sound and effects, and many different types of sounds. It varies from voiceovers, to exaggerated sounds. The voice over in the film is simply called the narrator, as we know him. We find out of the narrators involvement with Tyler Durdan, who's the leader of fight club. We get to go into the characters deepest thoughts and know how he's feeling all through the voiceover. With the voiceover we can jump from scene to scene. A s it turns out Tyler Durden is a phantom, a delusion, a projection of the narrator. The voiceover is one of the most important uses of sound in the film. As the narrator is unreliable, the audience doesn't know whats real and whats fantasy