Dialogue Editing

182 IMAGE, DEPTH, AND PERSPECTIVE
Figure 11-1 Example of a fi nished phone split. The markers indicate which character
is onscreen. Continuous room tone for each character prevents the phone
from “keying in and out” like a walkie-talkie and maintains a steady room
pre sence when a character stops speaking. The tracks have been renamed for this
demonstration. Only if the fi lm has an extraordinary number of phone conversations
do you create dedicated phone tracks.
Figure 11-2 A “normal” crossfade between two shots. Note the symmetrical fades
that provide 3 dB of midpoint attenuation.