Dub over Sea Bear Circle
20 lines 4 characters 0:41 of footage Free · no account · phone or desktop
Take over every line of Sea Bear Circle and see how close you can get.
The scene
Squidward gets mauled by a sea bear, twice, because he will not stay inside the circle. Twenty lines in thirty-nine seconds — Squidward nine, the sea bear five, SpongeBob four, Patrick two.
Almost half the pack is noise: the sea bear growls five times, Squidward screams through three separate maulings, and the dialogue in between is SpongeBob and Patrick calmly explaining anti-sea-bear circle procedure. Squidward's objection — that a dirt circle will not stop that monster — is immediately disproved by him leaving it. The last line is another scream.
Who you'll be playing
Lines you'll be taking
Laughing
No like that
Grumble
There are 17 more waiting in the studio.
Performing it
Three of Squidward's nine lines are written as scream while being beat up
, and they are the scene, so plan them: different lengths, different pitches, and genuinely breathless by the third. The sea bear is pure growl work and a great non-speaking part for a room. SpongeBob and Patrick should be completely unbothered throughout, delivering safety advice in a perfectly level tone while their friend is destroyed nearby — that contrast is the joke. Under forty seconds and four parts makes this an easy room scene and a quick solo.
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.