I've just finished directing "Rosmersholm", a 3.5 hour play by Ibsen, with my local amateur drama group. We recorded live via Zoom, which you can set to record a separate file for each participant. It takes a boatload of editing, because latency means there's 1 to 2 seconds between each line, and sometimes the internet sags, giving a weird "twang!" sound in the middle of a word. Also, of course, each person's room needs different processing to clean up, and loudnesses must be balanced. BUT, all the actors bounce off each other: their reads sound so much more natural than recording one at a time. The final result isn't quite BBC of course, but it's surprisingly close, and doing readings and recordings has kept us together and cheerful through this long, dismal lockdown.
Good for you - keeping spirits up and that sense of a community in the face of everything is so vital! And you've touched on the huge benefit of multi-actor sessions as well. These are most true for animation and some radio drama, which is why a larger cast will likely be brought into an external studio rather than home recorded. There really is nothing like a live response to work off - and you can tell the difference so often!
Even though this is a couple of yrs old, hoooow I wish more 'directors' and clients would implement all of this.....imagine....(drifts off into a soft pillowy fantasy)
Hey! I've been binging a lot of your videos lately, preparing for adding voice actors to a project of mine, and I just wanted to say thanks for the helpful tips! I also wondered if you could elaborate on what you mean with "status" in tip 5? I am not sure if I understood what you meant with that one
Sure. Think of status as a scale of 10 to 1, with 10 being a king, 1 being a beggar. Then determine what status the SPEAKER is, and also what status the AUDIENCE is. A king speaking to a king is gonna be very different to king to king, etc. That make sense?
This was incredibly helpful. Really enjoyed your pacing of this video as well.
Thanks Emile - so glad to hear it was useful!
I've just finished directing "Rosmersholm", a 3.5 hour play by Ibsen, with my local amateur drama group. We recorded live via Zoom, which you can set to record a separate file for each participant. It takes a boatload of editing, because latency means there's 1 to 2 seconds between each line, and sometimes the internet sags, giving a weird "twang!" sound in the middle of a word. Also, of course, each person's room needs different processing to clean up, and loudnesses must be balanced.
BUT, all the actors bounce off each other: their reads sound so much more natural than recording one at a time. The final result isn't quite BBC of course, but it's surprisingly close, and doing readings and recordings has kept us together and cheerful through this long, dismal lockdown.
Good for you - keeping spirits up and that sense of a community in the face of everything is so vital! And you've touched on the huge benefit of multi-actor sessions as well. These are most true for animation and some radio drama, which is why a larger cast will likely be brought into an external studio rather than home recorded. There really is nothing like a live response to work off - and you can tell the difference so often!
currently directing voice actors. its pretty hard to get them to do how I want it.
Hope this video might have helped!
@@NaturallyRPVoiceover it absolutely did. I did what you advised :D thank you
@@koi8440 Great!
Even though this is a couple of yrs old, hoooow I wish more 'directors' and clients would implement all of this.....imagine....(drifts off into a soft pillowy fantasy)
Hey! I've been binging a lot of your videos lately, preparing for adding voice actors to a project of mine, and I just wanted to say thanks for the helpful tips!
I also wondered if you could elaborate on what you mean with "status" in tip 5? I am not sure if I understood what you meant with that one
Sure. Think of status as a scale of 10 to 1, with 10 being a king, 1 being a beggar. Then determine what status the SPEAKER is, and also what status the AUDIENCE is. A king speaking to a king is gonna be very different to king to king, etc. That make sense?
@@NaturallyRPVoiceover That clears it up :D Thank you for replying!
@@TheFrozenMonkeyKing my pleasure - good luck
This channel might be helpful for me because I'm interested to become a voice director in L.A. in the future.
Thanks Brandon. Let me know if there’s any other areas that would be useful for me to cover and I’ll certainly try my best!
@@NaturallyRPVoiceover maybe make a video on how to voice direct/ADR direct an anime actor.
@@NaturallyRPVoiceover think yu could do that?
Never done any anime or dubbing, so probably not to be honest. If that changes you’ll be the first to know!