Second Voice Post

Okay, so I'm done messing around with the second video, but I'm not as pleased with it as I'd like to be. Admittedly, it's a lot more difficult to switch between voices than I thought it was going to be and I'm not much of a video editor. Still, the show must go on!

So, here's the self-critique I have for myself.

In doing this, it hadn't occurred to me to check certain voices before I began. I wrote the dialogue and began recording thinking that every single voice was spot on. In fact, most of them aren't. Spike's voice melds with Matrix's since there's hardly any difference except for a slight Canadian accent. I can't even remotely do Moss's voice. Richmond's sounds like Marvin from HHGTTG in the first appearance... My voice was wearing thin by this recording, so I noticed Hiei's first appearance barely sounded like him. Death drifted in and out as to how good it was and so did Roy. Zoidberg was good for the first shot, but not the second. Couldn't seem to get him down. Ugh. This recording, in my eyes, was a nightmare. It shows very little acting ability and that I didn't match voices as well as I should have.


Although I could easily delete this blog post and the recording, no one is perfect. We need to learn from our failures, too, and people need to see what steps we take to better ourselves. So, I need to diagnose the problems and figure out how to fix them.

I think a lot of the issues come from switching between different characters, but some come from a lack of practice. I spent an enormous amount of time matching Orson Welles and going through the speech before I decided to record it, something I didn't do this time around. I think that caused a lot of the issues with recording. I think sometime in the future, after posting a couple of other demos, I'll re-do this one with more practice. I guess it shows glimmers of talent in writing, acting, and voice over, but they're hidden by the sub-par performance. Yay art.

Still, I did get a little more experience with this recording setup and the video editing software. I also did enjoy the process and having a conversation with myself. I think the conversation dynamics may be the one saving grace in the whole video. Ready? Let's watch.


First Dialogue with Death, the IT Crowd, and several others.

Anyhow, that's that. Time to move on to slightly easier things. When I've gotten further in the acting book, I'll begin work on a speech in Hamlet. In the meantime, I'm going to work on a voice for Abraham Lincoln and re-read Call of Cthulhu for the next few videos. Stay tuned for more TALES OF INTEREST!