Now that filming is under way, Meier is on the set consulting with Lee, working with actors and extras, listening to different film takes, identifying problems and recommending which take sounds best. Later this summer, he will be in Los Angeles to help the movie editors decide whether any speaking roles need to be dubbed to correct slips in dialect. Meier is one who must judge what dialect is right and wrong in the first place. Lawrence would have sounded like. We look at each character, the dialogue, the speech rhythms, and see what dialect it suggests.
Some speech is flat and prosaic.
While costume and set designers can create a detailed and accurate image of the period, Meier must make what movie goers hear as authentic as what they see. Besides interpreting the script to create authentic speech sounds and training scores of actors, Meier is also a cast member. He appears in the film as a Southern aristocrat in a small but key scene at the beginning of the film. But his bigger role of dialect coach is what Meier is reveling in now. For a dialect coach, to do this period film.