ABSTRACT
Temp dubs are a good-news/bad-news thing. Temp dubs often close down their thinking to new concepts. The producer contracted a firm to recruit a test audience to attend a quiet test screening on a studio lot. As the cost of making motion pictures has increased, so too has the use of test screenings. Temp dubs can suck the creative lifeblood right out of a crew. On Andrew Davis's Chain Reaction, cosupervising sound editors John Larsen and David Stone were faced with a daunting series of temp dubs and test screenings that literally marched week by week right down the schedule to the week prior to commencing the pre-dubbing process for the final mix itself. The postproduction schedules and test screenings were so compressed and intensive that they could barely make the temp dub. Temp dubs are gargantuan preparation events, even requiring pre-dubbing.
