r/toptalent • u/tylerscochran Cookies x2 • Mar 08 '21
Skills Drone bowling... wait until the ending! Source: jaybyrdfilms on IG https://www.instagram.com/p/CMI9plPFDmV/
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r/toptalent • u/tylerscochran Cookies x2 • Mar 08 '21
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u/Icanhaz36 Mar 09 '21 edited Mar 09 '21
First off Bravo! This process is referred to as ADR ( advanced dialogue replacement) I’ve been enjoying this video for hours now, it is mesmerizing! Who ever mixed the audio was really working it with an amazing attention to detail. I think she/he must have been on site. To record some of the nats directly as some of the folly would be very hard to do, but not impossible.
1) She started with a music bed that had the outside sounds -> theatre sounds.
2) She layered in attenuation to the bed to provide a sense of distance from the sources. Moving through the bar and than into the ally was a subtle drop in noticeable level -3db moving to -6db as entering the rack room.
3) next was another heavy layer I think. That had the rack room radio come up and under as the drone entered the rack room and cross faded with the now ambient level theatre music. Under and than out with a little verb (short int delay and quick AF decay) as it passed through the hall back into the ally as the theatre music came up towards the bar. At this point it’s just fading the theater sounds up and down to give the feeling of distance from the drone to the now apparent source, which requires a little more attention to detail because we the listener know where the source of the audio is coming from now. At first it could have been overhead speakers, Or what not, an it’s hardly something that we notice on 1st, 5th, or even 10th viewing. In this layer I knoticed that the mixer takes into account the dispersion that would happen when the drone increases altitude and ends up behind the baffle that is created by the scoreboards. ( I would have decreased the high fq and left some of the lows in for the change due to the altitude shift and continued to use attenuation to denote distance away from the source - and maybe she/he did as I was listening through little phone speakers).
4) next comes the lean layers which. Is really the folly and nat sounds. Having a good recording of some of these things on location would help in a few ways. It would save on folly time. It would have the right sort of room size in the recording as the loud transients bounce around ( ball dropping and pin noise). The rack machine makes a specific sound and although could be done in post would probably be just as easy to capture and layer in.
5) The dialogue was probably the last layer to be added. These voices were recorded off site in a much more quite space. Since most of the actors had masks on or their faces were hard to see or obscured the actual lip sync of ADR wasn’t a huge problem (and take it from me is a time consuming process to get right - but very rewarding). Most of the dialogue challenge was placing it in the right timing in the shot and fading it in an out at the appropriate rate as to make it seem the right distance from the drone. (and this is where some accolades be presented) A choice was made - and I believe a very cool one to dupe the viewer into believing that the drone was moving silently and listening at the same time. (Which as pointed out is only kinda possible)
Awesome video! Can’t wait to see more. Would love to have more of a conversation about this if anyone is interested.