60 sec short film competition: The judges noted that dialogues in my video were crisp and clear. Since most of the equipments are left in the studio, I didn't have the luxury to set up a lav mic or an overhead boom. So I did the dialogue separately and added in post production.
Secret sauce: a closet full of clothes. The enclosed space minimised outside noise while the clothes acted as "acoustic panels" to absorb reverb. I actually wrapped a pair of socks around the sound capsule to minimise plosives.
The following treatment were applied in post processing:
1. EMCO announcement - add reverb as background effect, add distortion for small
speaker effect.
2. “Client voice-over” - low cut filter at 500hz, add distortion for small speaker effect,
(Semi Tones -1, Cents -50) to change pitch.
3. “Isetan client servicing” - low cut filter at 1 kHz, EQ -5db from 128-512hz, add
distortion for small speaker effect, (Semi Tones +1, Cents +10) to change pitch.
4. Normalise to -23 LUFS for delivery.
