SESSION 08 - WED 20.02.08

STUDIO
- Concentrated on recording dialogue

- Started recording dialogue for the Kid with Dan as the voice actor
- Later, Matt and Dan switched roles so Matt is doing the Kid's voice and Dan is doing the teacher's voice
- Found it difficult to act the parts that aren't lip-synched, because there is no reference for time and how long each phrase should be
- To help with this, we will take the original audio and cut out the parts of the dialogue that we are recording so the actor can have a 'conversation' with the pre-recorded character on the original.
- I noticed that the voices were too quiet for two people talking in the rain, even if they are under umbrellas...
> I suggested that we might need to record the dialogue towards the end when we have most of the sound effects and Foley done, so that the voice actors will have an idea of the atmosphere and mood.

By the end of the session we only had about 4 lines of dialogue recorded, and it's likely that we'll only keep one of them.

WHERE WE'RE AT
We are now at the end of Week 4 in terms of studio time and have made little progress since last week. We have 3 weeks or less until we have to present our Pre-Mix and we are going to have to get back on track quickly and regain our organisation, particularly since we currently have no field recording organised or any time booked in the Foley room.

PLANS
It was suggested in the studio session that we split into two groups of 3 so we can double our efficiency, especially since only about 3 people were involved in the dialogue recording.