Timing Your Clones

Omeo

Omeo

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Does anyone know how to time your dialogue if you're talking to a clone of yourself? I'm talking about the kind of stuff Natalie Tran does on her community channel. She's always interacting with clones of herself and the dialogue is perfectly timed; no awkwardly long pauses and she doesn't step on the other clone's lines. How do you do that? You can't just freeze-frame the one who isn't talking. You can't just say the other person's dialogue in your head, can you? That seems like that'd be too open to error.

Thanks, everyone. ^_^
 
Omeo said:
Does anyone know how to time your dialogue if you're talking to a clone of yourself? I'm talking about the kind of stuff Natalie Tran does on her community channel. She's always interacting with clones of herself and the dialogue is perfectly timed; no awkwardly long pauses and she doesn't step on the other clone's lines. How do you do that? You can't just freeze-frame the one who isn't talking. You can't just say the other person's dialogue in your head, can you? That seems like that'd be too open to error.

Thanks, everyone. ^_^
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My buddy is always posting those on Facebook, he just told me he uses an app called Acapella
 
I'd say try recording the audio of the first person talking on a phone if you have one. Then replay that audio in the background of your second recording so you know when to speak. Make sure that you record a "room tone", which is basically a recording of the surrounding you're in with no one speaking to get the natural sound of the environment.

In editing, add the room tone and the two video layers. When the first character is talking make sure the second clip of the clone is muted, so you won't hear the phone's recording and when the second clone is ready to speak, bring back their audio. The room tone will hopefully make the transition from the first clip to the second clip seem less choppy.

Hopefully this helps! :D
 
I would suggest having another person off camera lip syncing the dialog. Rehearse a few times together to get the timing down.
 
Ah, my specialty :D Since I film all sketches on my own, I have only my clones to talk to :laugh2:

The easiest is to keep the shots short like "clone A - clone B / cut to different angle or close-up of an object / clone A - clone B / cut..."
If you need more of a back-and-forth like "A - B - A" you can have A imagine the lines of B in your head and in editing do a slight adjustment of the speed during A's reaction.
If it needs to go on even longer, you can play back the already recorded audio of one clone for the other. That still takes a lot of practice though.
 
SabrinaKom said:
Ah, my specialty :D Since I film all sketches on my own, I have only my clones to talk to :laugh2:

The easiest is to keep the shots short like "clone A - clone B / cut to different angle or close-up of an object / clone A - clone B / cut..."
If you need more of a back-and-forth like "A - B - A" you can have A imagine the lines of B in your head and in editing do a slight adjustment of the speed during A's reaction.
If it needs to go on even longer, you can play back the already recorded audio of one clone for the other. That still takes a lot of practice though.
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That other chick in your videos is a clone? Seriously, I thought she was a friend of yours and ya'll just looked kind of alike.
 
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