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When to record actors together

When to record actors together

From the course: Voice-Over for Video and Animation

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When to record actors together

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- You've got a great script to record with awesome character interaction. So when should you record multiple actors at the same time instead of just one at a time? For general dialogue scenes, it can be a lot faster and easier to record one voice at a time. Singular voices are very easy to edit. No one's stepping on each other. If your actors are playing multiple characters who need to interact, that's also a really good reason to record one at a time. But if your scene needs real emotion, humor, or playful banter, those are perfect times to record the actors together. See, humor is all about timing. And great comic actors can feed off of one another and give your script the perfect timing. Emotions can also be hard to realistically portray in a sterile environment one-on-one, so allowing actors to play off of each other and build their emotions can also be a great idea. But multiple actors recording at once will often give you overlapping dialogue. Now, while that sounds great and…

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