ADR

ADR stands for Additional Dialogue Replacement. It is the process of replacing the dialogue in the scene when it isn't clear or there is a lot of unwanted background noise. This is a big problem with our first edit, and a lot of the time you can't even hear what the characters are saying, so we will have to go through the process of ADR.
The first step is to give the footage to the actors and ask them to listen to the lines a lot, so that they know exactly how to say each line, how fast, and where to put the accents. If they speak at a different speed or put emphasis on different words, then it would not work very well and it would be obvious that the dialogue has not been recorded live, breaking the illusion. We gave our draft edit to the actors, and they looked through it a few times.
The next step was to pick how we were going to record the lines. We considered using a RODE microphone in order to pick up crystal clear sound, but after doing a few tests we decided that it sounded out of place. Instead we are recording the dialogue using the camera's internal microphone that we used to record the sound live. It is pretty decent quality so it wont make much difference, but the lines will sound like they're actually in the scene, rather then obviously ADR.
We then chose the location to record the sound. The first place we tried was inside my house in the kitchen as it is quite an open space, but isn't too noisy. Unfortunately in these recordings you could hear the hum of kitchen appliances so it didn't sound so good. The next location we tried was just outside my house in the street, so that we got the sounds of the outdoors and it was a more open space. This sounded a lot more natural, and it fitted the scene much better.
Now it is a case of adding in the dialogue that we filmed, and adding in the foley sound behind it, in order to make it sound properly in the scene.