Dub over Hunt for Miles Morales

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Take over every line of Hunt for Miles Morales and see how close you can get.

The scene

Seven minutes that start as an argument and end as a city-wide chase. Miles learns from Miguel O’Hara that his father’s death is a fixed event, two days out, and that being sent home is not on the table. Peter B, Gwen, Peni, Hobie and Jessica Drew take turns trying to soften it, which only makes it worse; Miles hears an intervention. Then Miguel grabs him, Miles breaks loose, Miguel orders every station to stop Spider-Man, and the whole Spider-Society, hundreds of them, pour after one kid.

Miles carries sixty-three of well over two hundred lines, Miguel thirty, Peter B twelve, and then comes the chorus: ten groups of Spider-People with seven to thirteen lines each, nearly all of them noises, confusion, cheering, booing, dying yells. The cameos get single lines, a Spider-Man in therapy, a cowboy who cannot count to three, Ben Reilly’s musculature, Metro Boomin correcting himself. Many lines appear twice in the list to build stacked layers. The first three minutes are quiet and tense; the last four are a wall of sound.

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Performing it

This is the marathon. The argument is where the acting lives: Miles’s questions come in repeated pairs, and Miguel’s slow line about trying and doing damage is the one real speech, so give it weight. Then it flips. Miles has two enormous sustained screams, written as a single vowel, and the crowd has cheers, boos and death yells by the dozen. Doubled lines are there to layer, so record them as slight variations rather than copies. In a two-player room someone ends up as most of the Spider-Society, which is a lot of crowd noise; solo means a very long session. Play the crowd as bored office workers.

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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