Dub over Train Scene
9 lines 4 characters 2:13 of footage Free · no account · phone or desktop
Take over every line of Train Scene and see how close you can get.
The scene
Nine lines and a runaway train. Spider-Man is on the front of an elevated train that has lost its brakes, and the whole scene is him working the problem while two passengers and the driver watch. Spider-Man has three lines, the driver three, and the passengers three between them.
There is barely any dialogue because there is barely any time — tell everyone to hang on, break it down, and then the driver asking whether he has any more bright ideas. He does, and the answer is the webbing. Ninety seconds, most of it action, and it ends on the quietest line in it: we're slowing down.
Who you'll be playing
Lines you'll be taking
It's Spider-Man!
Oh my gosh, this is it!
Tell everyone to hang on!
There are 6 more waiting in the studio.
Performing it
The shortest script here for its length, which means the pauses do the work — long stretches of the clip have nobody talking, and the temptation is to fill them. Don't. Spider-Man should sound strained and improvising rather than heroic; he is making this up. The driver is the audience's voice, and "any more bright ideas" should be sarcastic without being hostile. Save the last line for a genuine drop in volume — it's relief, not triumph.
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.