Museum of the Moving Image Trip: Automated Dialogue Replacement

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.