Dub over What Is Your Name?
22 lines 2 characters 1:00 of footage Free · no account · phone or desktop
Take over every line of What Is Your Name? and see how close you can get.
The scene
A waiter asks Aladeen his name. Aladeen reads whatever is on the wall. Twenty-two lines in a minute — the waiter twelve, Aladeen ten — and the entire scene is that one exchange running four times.
The names get progressively less plausible: Alison Burgers, Ladis Washerum (which the waiter notes is exactly like the sign for the ladies' washroom), Emploice Muswashans, and finally Max Imumoccupancyu One-Hundred-and-Twenty. The waiter's last line is the punchline and it is a question: there's a number in the name?
Who you'll be playing
Lines you'll be taking
What is your name?
Alison Burgers
That's a made-up name. What's your real name?
There are 19 more waiting in the studio.
Performing it
A rhythm piece and a pronunciation test. Aladeen's invented names have to be delivered with total confidence and just enough slurring that they almost pass — say them too clearly and the joke evaporates, too mumbled and the audience misses the sign they came from. The waiter should be patient and genuinely curious rather than sarcastic; I am interested. We are interested
is the line that makes him a person rather than a straight man. Keep the repeated That is a made-up name
identical each time so the escalation belongs to Aladeen. A tight, very repeatable two-hander.
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.