Just wondering what the go is when two characters which are performed by the same person have an argument or a singing scene (like in the choir etc.). I assume that this must have happened a few times and it seems in most of those sequences you can make out the individual character voices.
So I guess my question is how do they do it?? Does somebody else do a voice for that moment, or do they try and avoid it all together.
Any thoughts welcome.
MB
They just do it on different audio tracks.
In fact, the vast majority of the show is spliced together after the actors have laid out their lines. They are rarely even in the same room together when having "dialogue".
Notable exceptions occur in the case of some particularly funny ad-libbing guest stars like Albert Brooks (who appears as playboy Jacques and the used RV salesman in the first season and Hank Scorpio from that Globex one). Apparently, he says so many things out of the blue, that they need to put another cast member in the booth to play off of him.
"As a matter of fact, I didn't even give you my coat!" -Scorpio
"It isn't quite breakfast, it isn't quite lunch but it comes with a slice of cantelope at the end. You don't get entirely what you would at breakfast but you get a good meal!" -Jacques
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On Thu, 19 Sep 2002 13:50:37 +0600, "MB" wrote:
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Thats strange, cos Dan Castellaneta (and Nancy Cartwright too I think) has stated more than once that the cast are almost always together when recording lines. The only time they are not is when someone has a schedule conflict and their lines are said by someone else for the others to play off of.
<taken from a radio interview with Dan Castellaneta thats on my HDD>
Where did you get your information?
SGM
They prob. record the scene twice. and making up your voice as another isnt that difficult.
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MB wrote:
well duh! of course there are more than one recording of the voices. i mean come on would they really have one scene with one person doing like three characters voices at the same time? NO! they record one voice then the next and then they superimpose them. when you actually think about it, it is quite simple.
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That's what I thought, but I didn't want to say anything.
Most of the actors can switch instantaneously...so a scene with Burns, Smithers, and Skinner (e.g. in 2F16) can be done all at once. Of course, if a scene calls for those characters to be talking at the same time, then I guess they'd have to record them separately, but I imagine it could be done all in a row.
MB wrote:
The same way John Lennon used to sing the harmony part to his melody. Record it afterwards.