dialogue recording

Recording DVD commentary for The Cleveland Show and Family Guy.

Typical Cleveland Show DVD commentary setup.I recently got to record two very different DVD commentary sessions. One was four or five people for a full episode of The Cleveland Show. The other was a “side-by-side” segment for Family Guy, where the director of an episode was comparing the animatic (black-and-white sketch animation) to the final color version for a few short segments of the show.

I wanted to say a few things about recording DVD commentary, and generally speaking, a full-episode session with several people is significantly more challenging than a two-minute segment with one person, so I’ll focus on that Cleveland session. This setup, though, evolved out of my Family Guy experience and how my counterpart on that show, production mixer Patrick Clark, did it when I was his assistant.

  • July 22, 2011

Justin Timberlake session

3/19/10: with Justin Timberlake, Cleveland Show executive producers Rich Appel and Mike Henry, writer Aaron Lee, and audio coordinator Nate Schafer.I just had the pleasure of recording one ridiculously talented and very funny man: Justin Timberlake. Now, back in the boy band days, I didn’t know anything about Justin Timberlake and only knew that N*SYNC didn’t exactly make my kind of music. But several years ago I saw him on Saturday Night Live and was sold.

  • March 23, 2010