Tech rehearsals bring together for the first time, and strive to seamlessly coördinate, costumes, lights, set, projections, sound, actors, choreography, stagehands, and crew.
Lacking equipment for synchronized sounds, actors have to return to the studio to dub in their voices, and scriptwriters are in a constant scramble to keep up with the pace of production.
It sounds actor-y, but lives are at stake".
Putting together a live-soundtrack performance has always been a challenge, especially if the score and parts for the original film have to be reconstructed: the music has to be removed while keeping all of the movie's other sounds — the actors' voices, the sound effects — intact.
Plot points that she had hoped would be subtle "were completely obscured" by the sound of actors having sex.
When they speak, they sound like actors in a porn flick produced in some country you can't quite place.
Look carefully at some of the scenes in these silent Shakespeares, and despite the absence of sound, the actors are clearly acting out soliloquies line by line.
This means you can plug in two or more mics and mix the sound from actors, background or elsewhere in situ.
Into a crowd of people working efficiently: producers, assistant producers, line producers, cameramen, make-up women, people in charge of lighting, sound, continuity; actors, stand-ins, extras who know they'll probably end up on the cutting room floor.
Maybe that's a plus, because it eliminates the cringe-inducing sound of actors who plainly cannot do a Chicago accent.
As for the sound, the actors were sometimes miked and sometimes not, sometimes their voices echoed -- again, with heavy-handed literalism -- such as when one bellowed into a ditch.
