If anyone’s curious about this, here are the notes I transcribed about the scratch reel from the panel:
What is a scratch reel? - In between the storyboarding, animating, and voice acting process, Lauren Montgomery (Executive Producer) explained that the staff realizes that they might need some additional lines, maybe lines get condensed, change names, and so on. But they don’t always have time to get the VA’s back in to re-record.
“So a lot of times, it falls upon one of us to put in some temporary dialogue and fill that space, they animate to it, and then we get the animation back and the actors replace the dialogue and it sounds great. But in the meantime, we get to watch some ridiculously horrible acting on behalf of the entire staff - editors, assistants, etc.”
Bex Taylor-Klaus (Pidge’s VA) noted: “It’s always breaks my heart a little to dub over the scratch tracks, because it’s so beautiful,” while Josh added that he’d love to see an episode just entirely of scratch tracks.“
Jeremy Shada (Lance’s VA) said his favorite parts of the scratch reel were when half the scene were the actual VA lines, and then it was one non-VA word randomly mixed in between.
Joaquim Dos Santos (Executive Producer) chimed in that they had two seasons of the ‘Scratchy Awards,’ where they handed out staff awards for the best scratch tracks produced (hahaha), where Mitch Iverson spraypainted a bunch of backscratchers with ‘Scratchy’ Awards’ on it.
After they aired the scratch reel, Josh Hamilton (Story Editor) noted that there are still some times where scratch ends up being in-screen and it’s an unexpected surprise when they’re reviewing the editing process.
The most popular scratch reel choice among the VA’s is Director Steve Ahn, who had a lot of the 'Ok, calm down’ lines in this reel, prompting Steven Yeun (Keith’s VA) to once ask: “Could I get that as my ringtone?“
Benjamin Kaltenecker actually did all of the 'moo’ sounds for Kaltenecker in this reel.
Josh Keaton (Shiro’s VA) noted that Joaquim voices a pretty decent Shiro, and "that’s why you didn’t see any scratch scenes of that because it’s not bad.”
Bex noted that she loved it when Lauren had to voice some of the Galra men for the scratch scenes.
Lauren noted that most of the scratch scenes were recorded late at night and the cast & crew weren’t really fighting to do a scratch scene, and “we’re not usually fighting to voice a character, but it’s more like 'who has to do it now? Who hasn’t done it in awhile??’
“While we’re in shame of our bad acting…poor Rhys [Coran’s VA] had to sit through and be insulted since nobody can actually pull off Coran’s accent.” Though, Joaquim pointed out that Jeremy does a decent Coran impression which he then demonstrated for the crowd.
Joaquim added: "The hardest thing to do is to record scratch in the booth and it’s played back to the actual VA’s and we can’t hear them because their mics are off, but they’re pantomiming the loudest laughter.”
Kimberly reassured that the VA’s loved hearing the crew’s voices for the scratch reel.
Josh K. added that “it’s like hearing your friends do an impression of you, and makes ADR sessions fun, since they can be so technical at times. It’s like getting to watch bloopers.”
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