Automated Dialogue Replacement is the process in which you dub over the lines that were not captured to a high quality. It is also known as Looping or Dubbing, so we thought it appropriate to using this technique due to some of our audio issues. On the third shoot for Trick of the Dark we scheduled an ADR session for the following day, which was also the day in which i helped with Echoes ADR as well. As technical as ADR seems from the image below it is actually one of the easiest tasks i have had to accomplish during my time as sound operator. I used Audacity to record the audio during the sessions, it was straight forward & only took several functions to record, save & export the different takes of audio. There were only two dials to keep in check which were the in going levels & out going levels of sound. This was to control the way in which volume was leveled.
Obviously with these ADR sessions they were predominantly focused in the areas in which we could either not gain a high standard of audio such as the sound stage or due to public interference such as unwanted talking, motor vehicles & extreme cases of wind. We focused on the two shoots which were the ending/1st shoot & the cave scenes, these are the areas that needed dubbing. The session lasted around 2-3 hours & we were able to gain all the necessary audio through multiple takes of the three.
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