do you credit anyone who did a dub/Voice Over ?

ramsaur

ramsaur

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I have a film I did. I did 2 versions because i did one with copyrighted music then i did one w/o copyrighted music with original music and some stuff messed up so I had to get the actors again and they had to do some voices overs so we could hear their voices.

Now there's this one actresses that i'm going to have to get another girl to speak for her and basically be dubbing her voice for her voice over.

now do you give the dubber credit or the actor or both? if so what do you credit them as?

**This film is going to the sundance film fest which i have to mail in by this friday for the early deadline so need some quick replies! thanks!
 
yea, i'm just wondering for ex. you would say.. (made up names btw)

cheerleader..................claire todd
cheerleader..................holly hinton (voice)
 
Yeah or you could be really sexist:

Cheerleader's sexy body..................Whoever 1
Cheerleader's sexy mouth................Whoever 2


I don't get the first question. Of course you credit voice actors! Think James Earl Jones would have been happy if Lucas had snubbed him for Darth Vader?
 
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okay, let me refrase the question some...

this original actress needs a voice over for one of her parts but turns out she won't do it, so i'm going to have to get someone else (not her) to dubb her but say the same lines. And this actor only has one part and it's just these lines so it's not like she has other lines in the movie then all of a sudden her voice changes. So i'm talking 2 people here. The dubber and the actor. How would I credit them?
 
Why wouldn't you credit someone for ADR work (unless you had some sort of prior agreement)?
 
DeSica said:
Why wouldn't you credit someone for ADR work (unless you had some sort of prior agreement)?
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I don't know. Just asking due to the fact i've never dealed with something like this before.

so say the ADR person dubbs the character of a cheerleader.. which would be the right word to credit..

cheerleader's voice......................sarah harris

OR

cheerleader......................sarah harris (voice)
 
voice of cheerleader..................sarah harris



is another way to do it. I think the parenthetical causes an unnecessary double take. "What?! Two people played the cheerleader? Twins? Oh one of them was just a voice."
 
Out of pure curiosity, why can't the original actress do the ADR?
 
If it is just a bit of dialogue that doesn't make up a huge portion of the film (like a scream, or a few lines that didn't get recorded well on location) just have an ADR credit, so at least the actress gets some recognition for her work that she may reference if she ever wants or needs to.

ADR Jane Smith

If she is contributing much of the speaking part (like whole pages of dialogue and important scenes, or the whole film) then you might want to credit her as doing the voice of the character.

Hero Girl (voice) Jane Smith


Or something to that effect.

Try contacting an actor's union (SAG in the US, or ACTRA in Canada) by e-mail, and see what they say. Those guidelines are always a good rule of thumb.
 
TC said:
Out of pure curiosity, why can't the original actress do the ADR?
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because the original actress does not understand that I have to get her to speak into a mic. She thinks i'm it's going to take along time for 3 extremely short lines that wouldn't take but 1 minute. But I got someone to do a her voice.
 
ramsaur said:
because the original actress does not understand that I have to get her to speak into a mic. She thinks i'm it's going to take along time for 3 extremely short lines that wouldn't take but 1 minute. But I got someone to do a her voice.
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Why not just explain to her that you only need her for an hour or so?
Seems easy enough.

Then again - you know her and I don't.
:thumbsup:
 
Re: voice credits

Re: voice credits

As a matter of fact, James Earl Jones was *not* credited in the original Star Wars films. Likewise Glenn Close's voice was uncredited as Jane in Greystoke. (They simply couldn't do anything with Andie MacDowall's flat nasal "twang" to make it sound like a British accent of the period).

I think that people find it somewhat confusing or at least a bit disconcerting when they see that a voice was done by someone else other than who they just "saw" it spoken by. It's as though it undermines the integrity of what they saw, even though they KNOW "it's just a movie, these are actors playing parts," etcetera.

At any rate, I would suggest other possibilities for credits:

"Special thanks to..."
"Additional voice acting by..." (but leaving the part unnamed)
"Dialogue replacement by..."
etc.

But hey, these are just my suggestions. Do what you think best.

Cheers,
Mike Stone
 
I really don't see that it's much trouble to credit a voice-over performer. Just put her in, if people get confused by credits that spend about 3 seconds scrolling across the screen, that's their problem. But you owe it to anyone who helped you make the film to put their name in the credits.
 
By the time they see the credits the movie is over anyhow.
So who cares if they get confused.
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I can't imagine someone saying "man, I THOUGHT that was a great movie, until I saw someone else did her ADR work. What a rip!"


Unless of course you were thinking about giving her an huge opening credit for her ADR work.
:)
 
Knoxworth said:
People don't pay attention to the credits anyway.
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My wife and I are usually the only ones still standing there when the credits end. But sometimes it's worth it - I think it was "Hooper" that had all those great blooper outtakes after the credits (plus others have done this). You don't stay you might miss some good stuff.

my .02 - always credit everyone, somehow. doesn't cost anything, and earns good will.
 
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