Lily Telford

On my tour of the MoMI, the demo that really stood out to me was the one about “dubbing”.  Our tour guide brought us to a (little black-box of a) room that had been created within the maze of other film-related exhibitions, and had us all cram inside. The room itself had been sound-proofed with it’s walls covered in black foam. It had a shotgun mic hanging from the ceiling, pointing very specifically in the direction of the one little chair, sitting at the one little desk, with the one (not-so-little) computer and headset, in the room. He asked for a volunteer to come and “act” out the demo, so I raised my hand.  I sat at the desk, and chose the “Babe” film clip to use for my dubbing example. The clip played through once, and then it replayed the first line that I was going to need to dub my voice over. It ran through this line, asking me to speak alongside the character, in order to practice syncing up my words exactly to the little pig’s lips. I did so. Then, it cou...