TALK ABOUT TECHIE STUFF THAT BOTHERS YOU. I'll start.
Movies/TV that use exceedingly obvious and poorly done visual or sound effects when you know damn well the people involved have done better and should be able to keep doing better.
Probably the one I hate the most is sloppy ADR. Which is to say, almost all ADR. Replacing dialogue for whatever reason, if the original is garbled, or there's too much interference in it to be useful, or for actual important changes like tonal differences that need to be effected or full dialogue changes, it seems to be handled very negligently. I've been noticing it a lot recently and something about it just ticks me off when I can hear the difference or see the lips moving horribly off-sync. It's the kind of thing that I used to notice when watching movies edited for television and various swear words / racial slurs got ADR'd. Those never bothered me much except as an interesting note about how obvious they were. But lately it's become something I pay particular attention to in movies and television and I can usually distinguish ADR from native recording just by how it sounds, and that really bugs me.
I understand there's a lot of technical differences between recording audio in a sound stage versus in a film studio or any on-location filming, and those differences often make it eminently necessary to perform ADR, so why does it so often feel like such an afterthought to do it well?
Movies/TV that use exceedingly obvious and poorly done visual or sound effects when you know damn well the people involved have done better and should be able to keep doing better.
Probably the one I hate the most is sloppy ADR. Which is to say, almost all ADR. Replacing dialogue for whatever reason, if the original is garbled, or there's too much interference in it to be useful, or for actual important changes like tonal differences that need to be effected or full dialogue changes, it seems to be handled very negligently. I've been noticing it a lot recently and something about it just ticks me off when I can hear the difference or see the lips moving horribly off-sync. It's the kind of thing that I used to notice when watching movies edited for television and various swear words / racial slurs got ADR'd. Those never bothered me much except as an interesting note about how obvious they were. But lately it's become something I pay particular attention to in movies and television and I can usually distinguish ADR from native recording just by how it sounds, and that really bugs me.
I understand there's a lot of technical differences between recording audio in a sound stage versus in a film studio or any on-location filming, and those differences often make it eminently necessary to perform ADR, so why does it so often feel like such an afterthought to do it well?
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