Post-Production: Sound Mixing & ADR

Of all the elements of post-production, sound mixing was the most arduous and exhaustive, due to the difficulties we encountered recording audio on location. This meant that extensive ADR was to be carried out, with our best attempts to record the dialogue in a way that would not sound out of place. Therefore we went the route of re-recording all of the dialogue using the microphone of the camera that was used to capture the visuals. I then used various internet resources to find ambience tracks that could be layered over the video to simulate the real sound of the locations in the opening.

The following video was instrumental in understanding how to incorporate the process:

Once I had determined which audio tracks were suitable, I matched them up with the actor's mouths to ensure they were in sync and looked as if they were recorded on the day. The audio of the opening was then created from the newly recorded dialogue in addition to the ambience, with some sound effects and elements of the actual recordings where they were necessary, for instance the sound of running and the actor's breaths during the fight sequence.