Francis Lawrence Tweets Water for Elephants Updates

From Water for Elephants Fan Blog:
The “ Rodrigo” Mr. Lawrence is referring to is Rodrigo Prieto, our film’s cinematographer.

Some of Mr. Prieto’s other films include, “Brokeback Mountain”for which he was an Oscar and BAFTA nominee for Best Cinimatography in 2006, “Wall Street, Money Never Sleeps”,”8 Mile” and the recent Gloden Globe nominee and current Oscar nominee for best forgien language film “Biutiful”

ADR stand for “Automated” or “Automatic” Dialog Replacement.

Dialog that is flawed on the production tracks must be re-recorded in a process called looping or ADR.

Looping originally involved recording an actor who spoke lines in sync as “loops” of the film were played over and over. ADR is painstaking work. An actor watches the image repeatedly while listening to the original production track on headphones as a guide. The actor then re-performs each line to match the wording and lip movements. Actors vary in their ability to achieve sync and to recapture the emotional tone of their performance. The director needs to supervise and direct the ADR sessions.