We want Autem to have a range of personalities, each will have to have its own unique voice/tone to keep it realistic, because people with this condition are known for adjusting their vocal tone/range to match the personality they are embodying. So, we will need to add the dialogue post filming. And a good friend of mine, his name is Michael, has a recording studio. I asked to more friends of mine, who have two different kinds of voices, to come and voice act as the personalities. Danny, will be the lighter toned mid voice of Autem’s Happy personality, and Moshe will be the darker toned deep voice of Autem’s Anger personality. Danny is a professional actor, Moshe is the dad of my other friend who came to help me on filming day 4 (he is not a professional actor of any sort, he just has a really cool natural deep voice).
Day 1:
Me, Yehuda and Danny, and Moshe all showed up at Michael’s studio at around 5:30 pm. We began with me giving a detailed briefing of what the movie is about, the scenery, the atmosphere of each scene, what I am expecting and wanting from the voice actors, and what Michael should be recording. I forgot to print out copies of the script so we used my laptop. We went through the script starting with Autem 1 (Anger Autem/Moshe), since he was the main voice actor of the film. Like Jonathan, Moshe is not a professional actor so we had a quite a few takes with him, around 185. We read through each line however many times until both me and Yehuda were satisfied with how it sounded. After around 45 min, we moved on to Autem 2 (Happy Autem/Danny). And then we ended with me doing some recording of her breathing, so we could overlay it on the opening shots and other parts throughout the film.
Here are some sample from the recording day and videos too:
After presenting the audio to a few friends, family, and some classmates, I got the same consistent feedback. “Moshe doesn’t sound authentic enough, as if he is reading directly from a script”. So, we had to re-record his lines. The reason I chose him originally was because he has a powerful, deep, (beautiful, if I may add) natural voice, that contrasts very well to Danny’s, they have a very similar base tone to their voices. To Moshe’s defence, he is a businessman, not a voice actor, therefore I wasn't so surprised when I got the feedback. Since I already knew a very good voice actor, I invited back Danny to record at Michael’s studio again, but this time he will be the Anger voice. We thought up a new tone for Autem, we made him sound a bit angry and hurt in his angry voice. That can help add a new dimension to who Autem is as a person. We finished after around 40 min, and around 30 takes.
The second problem I encountered was the breathing pace that we recorded in Day 1 with myself, did not match the breathing pace we had in the footage that we recorded. We decided to use Yehudas sister to do the breathing instead. This is around the time where I finished selecting the footage that we wanted to use from all the filming days, so we placed a screen in front of his sister with the raw footage playing in a slideshow type of form, where it cycles from one shot to the next. She breathed for each shot continuously and had a 5 second pause between each shot. We finished after around 30 min and around 5 re-tries.
I then took all the new audio and presented it again to my friends, family, and classmates and got much better feedback, they said that if Danny’s Anger voice could be lowered a bit, just to help distinct between the two personalities.
Here are some photos and a video:
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| A picture of a cool chair and guitar I found next door |
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