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"Knowing"

Houston – Sound Works provided ADR services for Summit Entertainments film “Knowing” starring Nicolas Cage. It was on the top the box office with about $24.8 million in domestic ticket sales its first week according to industry estimates.

Chandler Canterbury

This must-see Sci-Fi thriller is a big movie featuring slender blonde aliens, imitations of apocalypse, clairvoyant children and Nicolas Cage as very intense astrophysicist. Eleven year old Houston native Chandler Canterbury plays Caleb Koestler, Cage’s son. Sound Works provided dialogue replacement on several scenes with actor Chandler Canterbury.

The ADR process requires the actor to watch pre-production footage and lip-sync his lines. ADR can be used to fix sound problems including distortion, background noise, diction and interpretation. Sometimes ADR can be used to add new character – just altering a few words for phrases an actor can change the whole emotional feel of a shot. It also can affect the bottom line because dialogue replacement is less expensive than shooting a scene over again.
For “Knowing” Sound Works provided a CD quality digital patch to post production company SoundFirm in Sydney, Australia so they could direct Chandler’s lines in real-time. See these related ADR articles.

Tools like digital-patch and ADR software plus experience on hundreds of films and TV shows has put Houston’s Sound Works on the Hollywood “A” list for post production sound. Smaller regional and local documentaries, commercials and training videos also benefit from this Houston/Hollywood sound connection. Sound Works uses their abilities to work within budget on projects of all sizes. You can always direct your work remotely but if you are producing in Houston, bring your swimsuit; the pool and HOT TUB are always available.