ACTOR DIGITAL SPEECH
It was great fun recording the original voices for the characters in the
Valhalla Classics
but
having the chance, ten years later, to rewrite the dialogue and do it all again was so much
more rewarding creatively
The speech for me is always the most memorable aspect of
developing these adventure games. I'm often asked if I really talk like the prince,
and in a word, erm no, not really!
Once recorded, we speed up the speech in post production
for the prince and lower the pitch for the more meaner characters like the
Lord of Infinity. We also have a few tricks, like stretching a pair of
Lisa's
stockings over a coat hanger and fixing to the microphone, this reduces the popping
effect when pronouncing p's and s's. We had to do this really as my Scottish accent is full of p's and s's
can I do that one just one more time?
... it could be misinterpreted as perfectionism when in actual fact I just loved prancing about and talking in that affected way.
In one of the episodes, I think it's episode eleven, there is this huge rant about
Leonardo de Caprio's
professional demise, none of that was scripted but it was so funny at the time of recording that we decided to keep it in
My favorite phrase? Oh, I have so many favorites, considering there are 4,730 of them too choose from! I think the references to
Kylie
always put a smile on my face, I just hope she doesn't play them and file any lawsuit. My only regret is that all twelve episodes have now been re-recorded and well, I miss it... roll on
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Paul Carrington
Behind The Voices
In all honesty I had a blast, once you get into the characters way of thinking about his gaming environment
something takes over and their personality just seems to pour into the microphone. I know that I drove
everyone mad as quite often after six takes you could here me saying...