From the course: Video Post Production for Low-Budget Films

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Recording voice-overs and ADR

Recording voice-overs and ADR

- For many independent filmmakers, especially when dealing with low budgets, sound is the last thing they wanna be bothered with during production, but sound can truly make or break a film. Terrible visuals that go with good sound can be passed off as an intentional style, but poorly recorded and mixed sound will always make even the best picture look amateurish and poorly executed. This is a post-production course, but I don't really like to count on fixing it in post. Instead, we always try to get the cleanest sound possible on location. No matter how much preparation and attention you devote to capturing clean sound, some shooting locations are just not optimal. - It depends on the locations you're in. Sometimes there's just gonna be too much ambient noise, that the dialogue's gonna be unclear, and sometimes the lighting and the camera angle constraints are not gonna allow you to get where you need to be to record the optimum sound. - In situations like these, you might have to do…

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