In rehearsing with already selected cast - Selecting a Radio drama cast, be sure to have already gotten a venue that is quite conducive (I need not tell
you that by now…. Else leave this post….lol). Of importance about the venue is
that the venue must not give too much reverb to the voices, else you would get
a biased volume level and texture of the voices (except you would need this
level of reverb in the real voicing – next post) and you would see a clear
contrast when they go for the actual voicing. Hence avoid halls and tunnels,
under bridges e.t.c. just go for a small room. I advice the actual voicing
site/studio if you have the resources.
There are two different ways to rehearse/voice a radio drama
Method 1 – the characters doing the rehearsals as
combined, that is, they both perform a scene voicing together or
Method 2 – they rehearse/voice their lines in each scene
individually, that is, they take their parts in each scene without hearing the
follow up voices from the other actors.
I personally used method 2 for this http://t.co/Zem02VOk
- New benin. Method 1 is the
conventional way but when you look at the trend of happenings now, you would
find that with method 2, there are some overcome able bottle necks but their
final output is better. I would explain this later.
In voicing the
drama in the studio http://t.co/Zem02VOk
i used a software (Sonar X I) I also recommend Cakewalk and Nuendo. Also you
can create a mini/on-the-move studio and take it on the move with your cast to
various locations as the scenes describe. This would remove some headaches of
adding ambience sound effects, direct SFX (sound effect) and many others. It
also brings out the natural attitude to a large extent from the actors. For http://t.co/Zem02VOk i recorded in an enclosed
studio.
In
later post I would talk about the ways you can create a mini studio/portable
one that you can take on the move.
Back
to the techniques of rehearsing/voicing, with method 1, you would definitely
get a natural feel but certainty can’t be said about the quality of the
individual voices. This means that characters voice might not meet up with the
voice quality of other characters even after series of rehearsals due to
individual differences, also when you need to apply SFX to a particular voice
as in a phone conversation, you find this method difficult. Overall this is a
more conventional way of voicing radio dramas.
For
method 2 it has the advantages of the disadvantages of method 1. this means
individual voices can be mixed differently on different mixing channels. I say
this for a low budget voicing, where only one mic is used. The difficulty here
is getting the actors to know the rehearsals on their own and in putting the
voices of different characters together you must be good enough to make the
voices flow together, that is, no spaces where there need not be and for free I
say this, where they are suppose to laugh, sneeze, cry, e.t.c. let the actors
do that voice sample just once so that It would be a uniform sound from that
particular character for easy acquaintance by the audience and then fix this
sample at the appropriate place. In my next post I would be talking about the
concept of SFX as it applies to movies and radio drama voicing. Your comments
are welcomed @atseo, atseo@yahoo.co.uk atseoritse@gmail.com join with the trend
on twitter, or tweet this post with #RDVT thanks a million guys and go make
that radio drama
Follow on Twitter
and Join Conversation #RDVT - Twitter: @atseo
Radio Drama
Page - http://facebook.com/newbenin
already worked on
radio drama link - http://t.co/Zem02VOk
No comments:
Post a Comment