Posting American films in New Zealand we run across the accent problem occasionally – local actors who’s american accents waver across territorys, sometimes within one sentence.. and occasionally the only solution is to revoice, always a last resort..
Found via the ever inspiring/funny/distracting boing boing; is a list of 13 of the worst fake accents in film with youtube clips as examples. Some are cringeworthy while some are just funny (dick van dyke in mary poppins!) but for an accurate reference of just how bad some of those are, check out the Speech Accent Archive which ‘uniformly presents a large set of speech samples from a variety of language backgrounds. Native and non-native speakers of English read the same paragraph and are carefully transcribed.’
Aug
23
2007
23
2007
Film Accents
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Do you guys have a dialect expert on board during post?
We haven’t needed to thus far simply because if the film is an American film then we can rely on the director, editor, producers and/or studio to give us specific notes on any accent issues & record ADR to correct any problems, or if need be revoice. There are voice coaches available locally eg the website for Auckland Actors lists a few specifically for american accents
http://www.aucklandactors.co.nz/