During the trip to the Museum of the Moving Image, I was in awe by most of the exhibit there, one of them is
the Automated Dialogue Replacement or ADR for short. This device
allowed the user who is participating to pick a scene from a collection
of movies in its database and reenact them. For me, I picked a scene from School of Rock, where the main character Dewey, aka
Jack Black was impersonating as a school band teacher. He was
introducing himself to his class while at the same time laying down the
rules for them. I had to reenact every word that Jack Black said to his class in any way I wanted it. First, you
put on the headphones to the device, a machine instructor inside the
device will tell you have two times to say the lines. One to practice
the line and the other to record the line. The first time while
practicing, you will hear three beeps, then the scene will begin. The
class has spoken first, then it was Jack Black, you have to say the line the same time he does. Thankfully, there were subtitles to read along too. That will be your practice, to get a sense of how he says it and also to get ready for what you have to say. Then after that the headphones will replay how you sounded while saying the line. From there it's up to you on how you feel about the tone of voice you're
using. You can change it up from the recording part. Now for the
recording part, there will be another three beeps. The scene plays
again, the class says their part and you have to say your part, but this
time Jack Black wasn't saying the line again. His part is muted, but you have subtitles to follow along. Once that is
over, the entire scene will play again with your voice dubbed over Jack Black's
lines. It sounded really cool while at the same time weird hearing my
own voice being played back to me. It was like I was in the movie. This
experience was really great and I can't wait to go back there again.
Wednesday, April 29, 2015
Sunday, April 12, 2015
Relationship Between Shots. Blog #3
The movie Training Day was a very amazing and dramatic story about a rookie cop learning the way of the streets and doing some justice while having a corrupted cop as a partner and a mentor. After awhile, you realize that this corrupted cop has a very tight grip on his fellow officers and his whole community back home, that he has every piece of dirt on them and can arrest them at anytime he wants. They show the fear and force loyalty for this cop except for the rookie. The rookie has a sense of justice and doesn't want to do what the corrupted cop wants. Eventually the corrupted cop begins to understand that the rookie is not one of them and has to be killed. Which leads to a fall out, a shoot out, and even to a point where the two cops are trying to kill each other in front of the corrupted cop's community and family. You think the community will try and help out the corrupted cop, but they all stand against him because they saw the rookie defying him.
The camera begins to have a medium close up zoom on the corrupted cop's face, he's in complete shock, looks around the community in disbelief as the camera pans around the area to see everyone standing against him and one of his followers pointing a gun at him. The camera does a medium shot of the gun towards the corrupted cop and the stared down between them. Then the camera follows up with a medium long shot on the rookie walking away, covered in his own blood, with his former mentor in the back yelling out to him to come back and finish what they started.
Medium close ups on the corrupted cop's face as he shouts at the rookie, the community, about how he runs this place. Following with other medium shots and long shots of the community and his family slowly walking away and leaving him alone on the street with no longer the power, fear, or loyalty he has left. Just a shell of a man. The angles at this part shows how much this corrupted cop has fallen.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6KrNpxODiDA
Wednesday, April 1, 2015
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