Dub over The Last Dandelion
36 lines 3 characters 1:19 of footage Free · no account · phone or desktop
Take over every line of The Last Dandelion and see how close you can get.
The scene
Two rhinos find the last dandelion of the season. Sid eats it. Thirty-six lines in seventy-seven seconds, twenty-four of them Sid's, and a good half of those are chewing, laughing and falling over.
The structure is a slow-motion accident. Carl and Frank set up a genuinely tender little moment about fresh greens, Sid wanders in complaining about his day, insults rhino brain size to their faces without noticing who he is talking to, spots the dandelion and eats it with enormous enjoyment. His attempt to make amends involves pinecones, which he pretends to enjoy and then offers round. Frank asks Now?
, Carl says Now!
, and Sid screams.
Who you'll be playing
Lines you'll be taking
Yuck oh
I can't believe it! Fresh wild greens Frank
Where did you ever?
There are 33 more waiting in the studio.
Performing it
Sid is the whole scene and he is a voice part — the lisp, the chewing, the delighted mmms, the crunch and the cough after it. If you cannot do the lisp, commit to something else entirely rather than half-doing it. The trick is that Sid never once realises he is in danger, so keep him cheerful right up to the last line. Carl and Frank should stay low, slow and quietly furious; their restraint is what makes Sid's obliviousness funny. The final Now?
/ Now!
is the timing beat to rehearse.
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.