Dialogue For Drama And Factual Audio Post-Production - Podcast 457
In this edition of The Production Expert Podcast Mike Thornton, Reid Caulfield and Emma Butt look at all things dialogue for both factual and drama audio post-production, including the way we lay out sessions, the use of colour, how we handle processing and matching different takes.
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Production Expert Podcast Episode 457
Talking Point
Mike Thornton is joined this week by Reid Caulfield and Emma Butt to discuss all things dialogue for both factual and drama audio post-production.
Reid Caulfield is a Re-recording Mixer & Head of Operations at Westmount Digital. He has merged decades of creative sound and video work with his technical expertise designing and installing infrastructure for large & small facilities alike.
Emma Butt is a sound editor, ADR recordist and Re-Recording Mixer with 10 years experience across a wide variety of projects from mixing short-form commercials, magazine shows, short films, documentaries and animations to ADR recording for dramas and feature films.
Dialogue is absolutely key in any storytelling and in our conversation about all things dialogue in audio post-production for both drama and factual content, we start with looking at how we layout our sessions and how that differs as to whether our role is that of a dialogue editor, or as a re-recording mixer or whether we are doing it all and whether it varies depending on whether its dram or factual content we are working on.
Next, we look at how we use colour in audio post-production especially when working on dialogue.
Then we moved onto how much, if any, dialogue editors should undertake process like EQ and then the more thorny issue of dialog editors should use audio restoration software like iZotope RX.
Finally, we discussed how to go about matching different takes, especially when its production sound and ADR.
To close, we shared our Find Of The Week.
Find Of The Week
Mike - Netflix Loudness And Dynamic Range Developments Update. Mike also referred to a demo of object-oriented audio for hearing impaired users.
Reid - Matchbox from The Cargo Cult - A New Change And Reconform Management System For Post Production and The Gambit from Netflix with audio post-production by Goldcrest in New York.