John Jordan said:Oh man I feel for you...
so what you are saying is that the actors are not looking where they should and reading off a card off to the side...
sounds like you need actors that can learn lines or do a reshoot.. harsh and a pain but true
Thanks so much, I will definitly be trying this method and same with cut-aways indietalk- thanks for everyones input! I try to keep updated.if there is another part of the frame you'd like to accentuate, you can make a mask that brightens the part of the image you want to emphasize and diminishes the contrast of the part you don't. They did alot of this in The Brothers Grimm. I also saw a bunch of it in the BTS from the Panic Room uber special edition. Just a separate layer composited over the image with an opacity. Put a white shape on a black background with a fuzzy edge.