Dub over Donkey Meets Dragon

38 lines 3 characters 2:18 of footage Free · no account · phone or desktop

Take over every line of Donkey Meets Dragon and see how close you can get.

The scene

Donkey talks his way out of being eaten by flirting with the dragon. Thirty-eight lines over two and a quarter minutes, and Donkey has twenty-five of them — the dragon has eight, all of which are roars and growls, and Shrek has five, most of them shouted mid-fall.

The first half is pure chaos: Donkey mid-brag about being the stair master, the dragon appearing, and a long run of screams as the two of them are thrown around the keep. Then Donkey is cornered and starts improvising — large teeth becomes white sparkling teeth becomes a compliment about minty freshness, and then he notices she is a girl dragon and lays it on with a trowel. It works. She bats her eyes, he panics, claims to be asthmatic, and calls for Shrek.

Who you'll be playing

Lines you'll be taking

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Performing it

Donkey is a marathon: twenty-five lines and easily half of them are screams, yelps and whimpers. Pace yourself through the fight or you will have nothing left for the flirting, which is the part people came for. The turn is the key moment — what large teeth you have said in genuine terror, then the immediate, transparent backpedal. Play the compliments as a man who knows he is lying and is committing anyway. The dragon has no words, so whoever takes her is doing pure sound design and should still answer every compliment with a distinct noise. Shrek is a small part and mostly falling.

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.

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