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Anecdote from a Dubbing Session |
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Written by Stefan Kluge
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Thursday, 05 July 2007 |
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On very short notice we could convince two pro narrators to read texts for us which later on will form a thread through the movie. This went very chaotic as usual, without fees, but satifying in the end - typically VEB. I thought I share this story with you:
When "Route 66" came out in late 2004, a freelancing journalist contacted me, who did a 3h feature about the Mother Road for Deutschlandfunk radio. Recently I remembered him and asked for a good narrator. He came up with his pal Rolf Becker. Rolf accepted and took on the role of an old scientist. He narrated for us in a Leipzig bedroom since our sound studio was not available (backup: Pro-Tools + top mic - quality was fine). That was right after we shot our last pick ups, so the car was still loaded with boards which Rolf had to hold on to during our trip through Leipzig, he in fact was in town for a shooting for the MDR.
The same day a journalist visited us for a VEB-portrait for Deutschlandfunk Radio Culture. As soon as he got in our car, this jalopy would refuse to start up - a great lead for his story: obviously not only the cars in our movies give us shit, LOL. Anyway, he got us a befriended actor for a narrator: Carsten Wilhelm. So we packed the recordings from Rolf on our FTP server and a few hours later we had two mp3s from Carsten in our inbox. One version fitted perfectly right away so we were able to put it in the Fusion-file of the movie to be shown half a day later.
Many thanks and our respect to Carsten Wilhelm and Rolf Becker; by the way, our car is running again.
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Rolf Becker gives his voice for the role of Prof. Chomsky in "The Last Drug"
Carsten Wilhelm in the studio narrating the Turing Test Show moderator
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The Last Drug (2008) 
