Dub over Robert Loggia
16 lines 5 characters 0:46 of footage Free · no account · phone or desktop
Take over every line of Robert Loggia and see how close you can get.
The scene
A cutaway about a man spelling his own name. Peter is dreading Meg's birthday party, says it'll be worse than the time he was stuck behind Robert Loggia at an airport check-in desk, and the scene cuts to exactly that. Ten of the sixteen lines are Loggia's, and nine of them are letters.
The clerk asks him to spell it. He can: R as in Robert Loggia, O as in oh my God it's Robert Loggia, B as in by God that's Robert Loggia, and onward through everybody loves Robert Loggia and Tim look over there it's Robert Loggia. He also says the word "space". Forty-seven seconds, and it ends on Peter exhaling.
Who you'll be playing
Lines you'll be taking
you guys it's Meg's birthday next week
(Gasp) oh my God it is Peter we got to put together a party
may I have your name please
There are 13 more waiting in the studio.
Performing it
The joke needs total sincerity and a completely level rhythm — Loggia is being helpful, not smug, and every letter gets the same patient delivery. Don't build to a punchline; there isn't one, and the flatness is the funny part. Resist speeding up as the list goes, which is the natural temptation around the fifth letter. "Space" is the one line to leave a beat before. The clerk's two lines should be politely professional the whole way through, as though this is going fine.
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.