TV Movies

[Jimmykicker]

I was watching "A Few Good Men" last night on TV and was wondering how they make all the edits in the movie -- especially the voice dubs. Just curious...

[guns1inger]

Most movies go through a post process of re-recording much of the dialogue (known as ADR - Additional Dialogue Recording). This is because location shoots can have a lot of background noise etc. Some studios use this opportunity to record more "friendly" versions for TV and airline release, although as TV is allowing more free use of language, the need for this is dropping. The rest is often done by the station editors themselves, which is why the cuts are often crude/rushed. Many years ago one of our local stations broadcast Blue Velvet. They found one recording of Dennis Hopper saying 'Frikkin'" (from a different film) and over dubbed every utterence of "F*ck" with it, regardless of how he said it originally. The result was laughable ("Frik you, you frikkin' frik!").

I have notice though that as kit like AVIDs etc have become more common in TV studios, the edits have become better, and as the audience has become more accepting, the edits are required less and less.

[Jimmykicker]

Well that is a lot less complicated than I thought it would be...pretty interesting...