Interviews & Dialogue without lip sync

[gianni1]

I recall some technique was done by a filmmaker, but I need some insight on it, and how it's done. Who did this, does it work?

I seem to recall the concept of filming two people in different poses and angles, then using voice overs to for the spoken content. Can you insert any dialogue, and reuse the edited visuals in various contexts?

Gianni

[Evan Kubota]

"Can you insert any dialogue, and reuse the edited visuals in various contexts?"

Yes. Check out "Workshop Exercises," a short by Marcel Lozinski available on the Kino "Blind Chance" DVD. It starts off with actual B&W interview footage of various people, then blatantly dubs over their actual statements. After a few seconds the brain 'forgets' that it's not their original wording and the new, altered version becomes canon.

[gianni1]

Thanks it sounds like an interesting approach. I have not seen it anywhere... yet.

Gianni

[Blin]

I camera assisted on a short film quite a few years ago where they didn't have a budget for a sound recordist. Instead the idea was to make the film look like a foreign film (German). The actors deliberatly spoke gobbledegook. Later in post they added in the voices, with German accents of course. It added to the comedic effect and worked well.

[jaxshooter]

Did this once on a short super 8 doc.Didn't have a sound camera at the time.Recorded audio on a Nagra 3 with a crystal on the Nagra, but not on tha Canon 1014 I had at the time. Used fake sync for about 6 seconds of the MCU of the talking head and then filled the rest with very wide cutaways and voice over shots of what the subject was talking about.

I found that if you can get at least 5 seconds of "sync", the audience will buy into the rest of your interview as also being in sync.