Prajakt Rebeloma has been busy with Automatic Dialogue Replacement (ADR) when I met him after a gap of more than two months. He was very excited to meet me and share something new he has learnt. Prajakt has this very unique habit if sharing anything new he learnt , people may call it self boosting or apne mu mithu miya but I like it coz it motivates me to learn something new.
So we were back to tea stall, new one this time, having our Samosa and Tea when I asked him what's new in life and he said "After A D E S H its A D R in my life, means Automatic Dialogue Replacement and as name suggests its a dubbing of dialogues in studio to replace noise and errors. ADR is also used to change original lines recorded on set to clarify context, improve diction or timing , or to replace an accented vocal performance. Ye aisa hai mano shoot me Jo bhi galti hui usse sudharlo...
But why we are having studio in your bedroom? How did you managed to get professional output from this? Or are we compromising this time?? I asked him.
Again why has the same answer that Lastbenchers movie is being made to learn every aspect of filmmaking and to do it by overself. When we read about requirements of recording studio to dub dialogue we came to know its nothing that we cannot do here so we bought every stuff, installed softwares and made our own Digital Audio Workstation. Like I said there is nothing we can't do. And talking of compromise, doesn't matter how long it will take to give my best I won't compromise on quality.
"So what's procedure we have to follow as work flow for dubbing", I inquired as I was engrossed in this audio recording thing.
Prajakt took his time to finish Samoa and replied " Its very simple. After finishing your rough cut you have to re record dialouges of each scene. However sometimes every scene doesn't need re recording, it only depends on what quality of on shoot audio you have with yourself. Otherwise call those particular actors,
shows them a clip of the scene and the actor rehearses their lines along with the clip. Most important thing to remember is to recreate the emotion, setting and intensity of the original shoot - or possibly improve on it. Usually they have sound engineer who dies this all but I did all this on my own.
Anything that we should take care of especially when you are doing it on your own. Any particular incidence you remember?
Hmmm...let me recollect. Apart from technical knowledge that you must get before you start, you must understand audio output is as important as video coz we are dealing in movies where music, background score and dialogues plays crucial role. You can't let it go just to finish it. And about memorable incidence I must tell you about Dipak's dubbing as he did an excellent job with dialogues. WO to Kha gaya boss sab ko...He was creative and added lot many things through voice that we couldn't do in actual shooting of movie. I will show you his footages and what this guy has done. You will roll on floor laughing for sure.
I got so excited by this conversation that I asked him to do little scene for any character who isn't present for his dubbing. I want to go through this experience of acting with voice and emotions. To my luck, we had one scene of lecturer who couldn't come because of unavailability. I was jumping like kangaroo to go back to Prajakt Rebeloma's den.
Written by Aadesh Meshram
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