The Gang of Five
The Land Before Time => Cancelled and old projects => LBT Projects => LBT Audio Play Project => Topic started by: Malte279 on September 10, 2008, 12:48:23 PM
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Hi!
One of the most difficult things about the audio play project is that we are going to need the active support of quite a few people. Projects like the singing projects can make do with just three or even less participants. In case of an LBT audio play matters are different. Even very short possible audio plays would probably require at the very least five participants. Seven to eight would be realistic for something slightly more elaborate.
However, people must be really "with it" in order for this project to work out. Just saying the words into a microphone won't do, but one really needs have some acting talent for the whole recording to sound convincing.
As for a recording program, there is Goldwave (http://www.goldwave.com/release.php#download) a free recording program which has been used for our singing programs. However, as I had to painfully realize once again when today I recorded singing for the "Family" project, many microphones tend to produce a very strong and irritating rustling noise with the potential to ruin a recording and its usefulness for an audio play (a mix of different rustling sounds with the occasional lack of such would sound really strange), so to participate I'm afraid we must make sure to get a microphone which allows for at least very little disturbing background sounds. In some cases this would mean that we have to buy them.
Now with all that ugly stuff being said, I'm sure that the creating of such an audio play can be great fun for all the participants. I suggest that all the participants could do test recordings for every character and we could vote together on who we feel is doing the best job on a specific character.
If this project gets enough enthusiastic participants to be realized I'd be happy to be one of them and willing to take the "toils" to get the fun described above.
Who else is?
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Hmm...I'll think about it. Problem is I'm used to stage-acting, where everything needs to be larger than life. A friend I sometimes make short films with complains about this all the time.
One other thing...Goldwave isn't actually free. The trial is, and it is theoretically possible to keep the trial going forever, but the only way I can think of doing that requires another (expensive, but I picked it up for free on a special giveawy site) program and a lot of patience.
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I am in Malte. About the background noise. The reason for that could be, that anywhere next to the microphon is any instrument with electricity. Was here the source. My keyboard was on my table and I heart strange noises in the mic.
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I could be in as well. I can do pretty much with my voice.. :p
Some of you know..
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I¥m in.
I can do somethings with my voice, not much, but will see.
We all should know each others voices first i think.
As for voice recordings, to the persons who have Vista(I think XP to) you could use the voice recorder that comes with it, or record your voice in the windows movie maker,or in vista movie maker.
Or in msn, but msn...well its not so good.
I don¥t know Goldwave so I can really tell if it¥s good or not.
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Goldwave is good.
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I will download it and see it for myself I guess.
We could all send a 5,10s voice recording just to show our voice.
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Any idea what to say then ? :p I always have trouble with that :p
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Not that I want to get into the Voice Acting, but the best to say would probably be a quote. Or maybe a small description, of known things, like the location, date of birth, etc.
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Yea well probably... It works better if I actually have a quote.. And practice on that a bit.. Why practice?
Lets say I can have some trouble with a few words :p
Its not like I have to practice 4 days over one sentence or something... O well I guess I could do this.. If it were silent here now.
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As much as I would like to get into voice-acting, I don't think that I'm that talented with voices. So even though I suggested this idea, all I can do is supervise and advise.
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Same here. I don't know where I stand.
Though, people have (no names, you know who you are) have stated, several times, that I should be in the acting buisness.
So I might give it a shot to see if that's really true.
Besides, it's something I fancy.
Now if, and how we're gonna do it is another five.
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I would be interested in it, though I know nothing about voice acting, nor software nor equipment. Some with more experience may need to suggest software and equipment as well as tips like how to use a mike to reduce electronic and other noise and such.
I would guess my acting to be pretty bad since it is the default undeveloped skill. Also I wonder if either there is software easily used to alter someone's voice to sound more like a child or of most can just accept that some characters that should have more child voices will have adult sounding voices.
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Well, I would be willing to participate but is there even a script yet?
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Not yet, because there aren't any plots that have gotten the green light yet. See the Plot Request Topic for clarification.
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If you need actor with russian accentuation, i can help. :)
About background noises... There is a programm called "Voice Changer" (Diamond version), that can not only clear all this noises, but also allow one person to play different characters. It isn't free through.
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I'll do what I can to help out. I can voice-act some, but I've never done it for real. Guess now's as good a time as any, huh?
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I would be more than willing to try as well..but it seems I can't download Goldwave on a Mac. And worse still..I don't have a mic. So until I can obtain these thing, I'm out of luck.
But I still wanna try...it sounds like fun!
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well, i got a mic, and a voice,(duh!) so... why not? i'm in! :lol: but i don't understand much of the whole thing, :huh:
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I just remembered I have a mic but it's broken so I need a new one.
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I now have a very good mic, the one that's built into my webcam. Normally they're not good, but seeing as my webcam was $250, it's better than most mics out there.
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250?
Mine was only 15.
And it sucks <_< , I really need to buy a new one.
I still think we should know each other¥s voice.
Or we could do a quote like Explorer said.
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Suggestions may need to be done for different types of equipment and software, as well as some various prices, like the best mikes under $x, ect, and software to alter voices may be needed since I would assume most here have adult sounding voices and the main focus, if done like in the movies & tv episodes, will be kids, with the adults not having lots of appearances in some scenes.
Also, depending on the number of voice actors and who plays what some roles may need to be removed or altered a bit since are likely going to be far less females to play female roles, especially the adult females Tria, Grandma Longneck, Ducky & Petrie's mother. Though in Ducky's case her father could be used maybe, since he's not mentioned as being dead, or someone who has practice could do multiple roles and alter their voice themselves or use software of some sort.
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The only one my voice is good for, really good, would be ducky's mom.
I could try the others :p But my voice is kinda low..
I Dont think any other women on this board want to join this... Might be mistaken.. :)
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I like the sound of the audio project so I'm willing to add any contributions as necessary. Being a fan of voice over artists, I'd love to act as one of the characters (not necessarily a key one but anything going). I've done a few voice overs before but they are only slight characterisations. I'd be more than happy to take on any roles going :) :^.^:
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As for the voices I suggest that once we have settled for a script everyone should send a short recording of a couple of lines for each character in the script and we should decide together whom we feel would do best for which character. Personal preferences of our voice actors should of course be taken into account in this decisions (someone who really, really would like to do Littlefoot is not likely to put as much effort into a different role ascriped to him or (yes, if the voice sounds fitting) her). But of course a certain degree of similarity between the voices would in some cases have to overrule the preferences of the voice actors, especially if we have many applicants for a particular character.
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I can guess many characters would have many voice actors. How about all the various female characters though. Would some of those have to be done by males using voice altering software, or the roles adjusted so some lines are given to various other characters so that character may not appear. Likely many options will need to be looked at and weighed and then decided upon. Then there are the various kid voices needed.
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Maybe there are still guys around with a children voice? Not sure...
My voice is too low to play Ducky or Cera, seriously.
I could try though, I can sing high, so why not talk higher eh :)
Malte's idea sounds good to me. I dont prefer any character, so with me you won't have any trouble deciding.
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I guess we'll have to wait and see how things develop and as for certain characters things will have to be done. Some adjusting or adaption may need to be done concerning certain characters.
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I'd like to get in on the fun as well. The funny thing is I can do a pretty good imitation of Spike's grunts and groans, but I could do other characters if needed.
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Yeah I'm also a good voice actor.
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The more interested and try out the higher the chance all the main roles will get filled.
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This is looking really good! I'm glad there is such a positive resonance and readiness to participate in this projects :yes
Once we have settled for a plot I think we should pick a few lines for each character (and possibly for different moods) from the selected script and let anyone who would like to participate record them and post them here so we can determine whom we feel sounds most like a particular character :)
In case someone can twist the own voice into really different voices there may be a chance for someone to be ascribed to more than a character in case we don't have enough (there were characters spoken by the same voice actor in several movies).
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I tried some characters before. The once I am rather good at are: Littlefoot, Shorty, and maybe Petrie. But not sure, if my voice would be able to talk him in every situation :lol
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A suggestion which came to my mind:
Every voice actor, who would like to play a character, could make a short recording for his, or her character from a special scene in one of the movies. So, for these who wants to play Ducky for excample, are talking all the same plot in the movie which is chosen. So one can decide after that, who sounds the best.
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Or like Malte said, we could wait for a plot and could talking parts out of this plot then. But we would have to wait a bit longer then.
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Well count me in.
My voice is not the best, but the more the merrier, I¥m sure it will fit to something, even if it is to the "stupidiest" sound ever -_-
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With the small pool here, small in comparison to all of the professional voice actors and regular actors that universal has access to for their lbt movies & tv series, There may some with voices that may not be perfect but are good at doing a certain role. Maybe either the person doing the acting, or whoever does the post production, can use software to alter a voice a bit, that may help, or may be to hard to make it worthwhile. I do agree if there are some who can do more then one voice they may get more then 1 roll, though they may have to say their lines for the characters they are trying out for in each of the voices they can do. That likely goes for those trying out for the narrator (if there will be one) role.
We have to also consider if some do not wish to sing the songs that someone involved in the singing project maybe can be asked to sing the parts of that character during a song. If everyone is willing to sing then that will not be needed.
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Need we forget that a number of the characters' voices are actually voiced by the same person. Characters like Spike and Ducky's Mum as well as Petrie's are both voiced by Tress MacNeille and they sound relatively similar. In instances like this it may not be completely necessary to have 2 difference voices for these characters. Given excellent talents such as Rob Paulsen who voices quite a few characters who sound completely different (from Spike to Mr Clubtail) it will be more likely that we will require more contributors to the audio play.
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you guys will soon hear(!) more from me! :)
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Need we forget that a number of the characters' voices are actually voiced by the same person. Characters like Spike and Ducky's Mum as well as Petrie's are both voiced by Tress MacNeille and they sound relatively similar. In instances like this it may not be completely necessary to have 2 difference voices for these characters. Given excellent talents such as Rob Paulsen who voices quite a few characters who sound completely different (from Spike to Mr Clubtail) it will be more likely that we will require more contributors to the audio play.
That¥s right. But first let¥s see how many members want to join anyway, and let¥s wait for the plot and the script. After that we can see if there are enough characters to play for each person, or at least one.
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Plenty of time for that indeed.
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Aye, as I mentioned in another thread I think we ought to settle the question of the script before tackling that of the voices.
While it would be possible, of course, to let people imitated characters' lines from the movies, I don't think this would be the better approach over having the script first. If we do the recording and voice picking before we have a proper script ready, I'm afraid there might easily be a decrease of interest in the project in case it takes a longer time for the scripts to be finished after the choosing of the voices. If we can continue the recording right after the selecting of the voices I think there is less of a risk that the "impetus of enthusiasm" for the project may be lost due to long waiting times.
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True. It may be best to wait till sometime after a script is accepted and in hand. That may sustain interest. Very good points. And with the script we can show some lines so everyone can see, not everyone has seen the movies, apart from, I'd guess, the first movie.
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Well, when the recording starts, I will be happy to help with what I can
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Hey, sorry I'm replying to this so late!
Just wanted to say that this looks like a fantastic project, and if you guys are still short on female voices I'd be happy to lend mine.
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That's more than enough examples for people to work on a small script themselves, too, don't you think?
It should be I hope. There are other movies maybe like that where one maybe can say this little scene could be happening in x movie between this and this scene, or one could try, like I mentioned, what happens for the next 5 or 10 minutes after this movie ends, or right before it begins. Just as a starting point.
Hey, sorry I'm replying to this so late!
Just wanted to say that this looks like a fantastic project, and if you guys are still short on female voices I'd be happy to lend mine.
Thanks for your interest, that should help quite a bit, since I guess most voice actors will be male. Any particular characters you think you'd like to do, just out of curiosity.
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I think we only have one female voice(me) so it'd be awesome if you wanted to join up! :D
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That would double the available female voices. :yes
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Hi :)
I took the liberty to clip some posts from the script thread as they fitted more into the voice acting thread, which (same as several other threads) may have been invisible to many unless the setting was to show all messages rather than only those which have seen activity within the last 30 days.
Hey, sorry I'm replying to this so late!
Just wanted to say that this looks like a fantastic project, and if you guys are still short on female voices I'd be happy to lend mine.
Everyone is hearty welcome to join the project and your enthusiasm is greatly appreciated :yes
Once we have the script settled we can start with the voice recordings. I guess we should start creating a list of everyone willing to do voice acting.
Also note that depending on the number of participants it may be that not everyone may be in the first play (depending on the number of roles in the first script which is not yet selected), but this is likely to be just the first of several projects to come in which more voices will be needed :yes
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Thanks Malte! I didn't see this thread, so that's probably what happened.
Thanks for your interest, that should help quite a bit, since I guess most voice actors will be male. Any particular characters you think you'd like to do, just out of curiosity.
Well, my voice might be good for Cera. I also might be able to play Grandma Longneck. I think I have a relatively broad range, but I guess I won't know until I try :) Ducky would probably be a stretch, but again I'm willing to try anyone. As far as actual voice acting skill goes, I've had a bit of experience in the past, but I can't say I'm an expert, haha. Can't wait to hear all of the voice work everyone comes up with!
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I guess when the time comes we should make auditions for everyone on every character (yes, that means the males will also have to try imitating the female characters and vice versa :p). Sometimes LBT characters have been spoken by actors of the other gender.
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I guess when the time comes we should make auditions for everyone on every character (yes, that means the males will also have to try imitating the female characters and vice versa :p). Sometimes LBT characters have been spoken by actors of the other gender.
Yeah, and its quite frequent. But its especially frequent when women voice male character.
Also, count me in for the auditions. I'll give it a try.
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Though I"m very shy at the idea I may give it a try, if I can figure out how to record my voice and if my cheap mike that someone gave me is good enough or if I have to buy one.
It's good that we may have 2 female voices. There should be enough for all the characters, maybe including the ones who have a line or 2 and are in just a scene here and there like Mr. Clubtail tends to be.
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I'm in, I don't have a mic but can use some recording software.
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Yeah, I know I'm late in asking, but I was hoping I could join in too.
This is gonna sound strange, but I was hoping I could do Spike's voice. I know he doesn't talk, but he does have his grunts. I'd be happy doing any other voice if you're looking for someone else.
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i'v always been interested in voice acting so would i be able to help out.
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I'll give it a shot. I guess.
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I'm still more than happy to lend my voice if needed. Again, I can't really produce a good child voice, but I could certainly provide an adult voice, or a young adult character if one exists.
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I could give it a try.
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I am not sure if that is going to work anytime, somehow. This topic exists over a year now. Still, I would like to give my voice if needed. Mo or Littlefoot maybe. Also could do shorty or an older character.
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I would actually love to do a voice, but as far as young characters are concerned, I'm out. My voice is a bit too deep to consider being Littlefoot or any of the gang. Perhaps an adult, though...
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Well, I've done some table readings for episodes of my fanfiction before, where we tried to imitate the character's voices as best we can.
If this this is still even alive, I'll join too. I could do a pretty good Mr. Threehorn or Mr. Thicknose, and maybe some other adults with practice.
Don't ask me to do any of the kids voices, though. :lol
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Likely the only way we could have any kids voiced are either to use woman like the cartoons use, actual kids, or have voices altered to sound more kid like using some sort of software.
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This sounds fun^^
well, idk, I don't have a very broad range for voices, but I can do a pretty killer British/Cockney accent ;) lol
And I can do high, fast voices, like the speaker is on loads of Red Bull.
Male voices? i can do kid-pre-pubescant boys. *shrug*
Girls? Yeeeaaaah
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One more thing: I can also do villains pretty well, if I do say so myself, and I can work with quite a few accents.