[cuz_it_aint_their_money]

I’d like to invent a *Dialog Decoder* for all those times an actor utters a non-intelligible word or phrase. Having DVR, I’ll go back again and again trying to understand what was just said.

The wife and I have the same problem.
Then we decided to try the closed caption for shows that we had recorded and it works. Now when we don't understand something an actor has said, we simply rewind, turn the closed caption on, and replay. Then when we find out what the actor said, we pause, turn the closed caption off, and resume play.

[USARightSide]

‘______turn the closed caption off_________’

Don’t think we have closed captioning. Good for you, tho.

What I miss, but catch up with by re-winding over and over, half the time isn’t worth the effort. . .
Occasionally it IS a word or phrase that explains the plot up to that point.

I don’t think production hears what we hear, because they KNOW what the word to be, from the script. And that’s what they hear.
Same thing with a director at our community productions. They fail to advise the actor of the mumble because the director knows what it is, and he/she can “hear” it.

Repeat: Mediocrity.

< Listen to me all you directors out there: Invite someone in to watch a rehearsal (or editing) cold, and by taking notes, have them report to you what the dialog sounded like. >
Thank you.