Acting in Animation 16/10/12

During the afternoon, the whole class were told that we were going to be concentrating on Voice overs for animation, which i was really excited about. You can create the most amazing character animation wise, and create a really intriguing personality but if the voice over isn't great it can really take away from all of the hard work that the animators have put in.

For me, to be a good voice over you need to be diverse with a range of accents, noises, and animal impressions, you need to be able to think on your feet, whilst also conveying intense emotions with out actually being on camera. Also its also helpful to be able to improvise, some scripts may not feel right or read right, so you need to be able to change things to the character you are playing. I imagine that most voice over actors would have to be interesting individuals as you are limited to your knowledge and imagination. I see voice overs as the most purest form of acting as you have to perform with everything inside.

We were given scripts that we had to do voice overs for. I have to say, the script wasn't particularly interesting, we broke it down to be two young adults talking about certain individuals who owned particular Theatre's. It was a bit of a who is who game, with a little added comic frustration as the two characters couldn't agree. We practiced the script a couple many times so we could get to grips with the fluidity of the script and the way that the script should be performed. It was really interesting to see how the script changed every time we rehearsed it, we laughed in different places, used different pitches at different parts to make it sound as natural as possible. At certain parts we actually interrupt each other when the two characters are disagreeing, and we also improvise as some of the wording didn't feel right.

My colleague has the sound on her phone so i cant put it on here yet, but when i do i will upload if and then upload the edited version. I will also upload the analysed version of the script so show how i broke it all down.