Record dialogue and narration
Overview
This Standard is about recording dialogue or narration in a way that conveys mood and information consistent with the intentions of clients. Dialogue can be recorded from scratch or rerecorded and replaced when original recordings are unusable. It includes collaborating with, and managing, talent with a wide range of temperaments. This Standard should apply to anyone who is involved with recording or replacing dialogue.
Performance criteria
You must be able to:
develop approaches to dialogue with clients that take account of
their vision and ideas
- evaluate existing material for audio quality against expected
artistic and technical standards
- review schedule and cost to ensure required material can be
recorded or rerecorded and incorporated within clients budgets
- advise relevant people on the impact of new recordings on
budget, schedule and creative requirements
- maintain a diplomatic and professional approach to artists who
are recording, adjusting your way of working to their mood and
temperament
- adjust level, balance, tonal quality, perspective and dynamic
range to communicate information and mood in narration and to
match the position, movement and mood of characters
- determine suitability of dialogue against requirements, reviewing
with colleagues and clients whether it has the intended impact
- create a mix with other sound that retains the qualities achieved
with voice tracks alone
- make critical judgments about final audio quality against expected
artistic and technical standards
- maintain security for files and other materials in line with company
requirements
Knowledge and Understanding
You need to know and understand:
how to collaborate and cooperate with clients in creative
conversations around their ideas
the style of voice required for characters and narrators
how to develop ideas that help meet creative requirements
techniques and procedures for sound treatment
how to assess visual and/or audio quality to expected artistic and
technical standards
characteristics of tonal quality and perspective
operation of the sound studio
recording formats, synchronization and reference systems
current viewing standards and current professional, national and
international standards of delivery and expressions of best
practice for the range of platforms and content
- when it is appropriate to rerecord and replace dialogue or
narration and the implications for doing so
- characteristics of voices in different acoustic environments and
when people are behaving in various ways
- the importance of audibility of dialogue especially with regards to
the impaired hearing of an ageing population
- the use of mono, stereo and multichannel sound to realize
creative ideas
- capabilities of and procedures for using sound recording
equipment
microphone techniques
techniques for accurate timing and synchronisation
how to identify the ways that artists like to work and like a session
set up
the differences between speech and narration and how they mix
health and safety factors of all equipment and the workplace
company systems for storage, back up and security