Dub over Kupkake-inator
56 lines 5 characters 2:32 of footage Free · no account · phone or desktop
Take over every line of Kupkake-inator and see how close you can get.
The scene
Sally asks to make cupcakes and the Cat responds with a full infomercial. Twenty-eight of the fifty-six lines belong to Chef Cat, the host of the segment, and nineteen to the Guy in the Sweater, whose stated job is asking all the obvious questions. Nearly two and a half minutes of television that shouldn't exist.
The product is the Kupkake-inator, which makes cupcakes out of anything in the kitchen — a claim the Guy in the Sweater tests by saying "anything?" four times in a row until Chef Cat's patience visibly fails. From there it deteriorates: eggs, hot dogs, ketchup and a fire extinguisher go in, the host is told he's stupid and that his mother is ugly, and the segment ends with a chopped-off tail.
Who you'll be playing
Lines you'll be taking
Hehehehe So kiddo what do you want to do for fun?
I wanna make cupcakes
Cupcakes!? Oh yeah!! Hehehehe. To the kitchen! Hehehe
There are 53 more waiting in the studio.
Performing it
The "anything?" exchange is the centrepiece and it's a two-person rhythm game: the Guy in the Sweater stays identically curious each time while Chef Cat's answers get shorter and tighter. The threat buried in the middle should be thrown away almost inaudibly, as if it wasn't said. Chef Cat wants a bright infomercial voice that keeps slipping, so pick a presenter register you can drop out of and snap back into. The Cat and Sally are watching from outside the segment, so keep them in a normal room voice — they're the reminder that this is a children's film.
The dialogue is muted and everything else stays — the score, the room, the picture. You record each line over the silence and the scene plays back with you in the cast. How a dub is made · what the score measures.