In ep 144 of “How Do You Say That?!” Kitty Lyddon talks about why some producers looking for several languages like to take the easy route and there’s parent energy in a game script for 7 year olds… We ask does material written at the turn of the 20th century automatically beg for RP, and if you have a scary story, do you start ghostly or does it build the horror if you start more neutral? Plus we have a freezing tip that’ll chill your bones.
In ep 121 of “How Do You Say That?!” voice actor and director Stephane Cornicard joins Sam and Mark to direct them through a specifically written gaming side… full of emotion and hidden depths. He shows us how to access a more nuanced performance – and then notches it up several gears when we use the same script for the wildcard! Our VO question this week is all about dubbing and some of the surprising changes in that side of the industry beginning to be used.
In ep 116 of “How Do You Say That?!” André Refig joins Sam and Mark to explore the musicality of an infomercial call to action… and how to create proper characterisation within a mobile-phone video game. There’s also an astounding stretchy-to-the-point-of-bursting wildcard!
In ep 106 of “How Do You Say That?!” sponsored by britishvoiceover.co.uk, Mike Bodie joins Sam and Mark to talk about how you can judge the age of a character through the pitch of the voice, the secrets you need to know for gaming auditions, and why an American accent with a British sentiment doesn’t always work for casting directors.
In episode 91 of “How Do You Say That?!” sponsored by Voxbox, Elsie Lovelock joins Sam and Mark to talk about getting out of the rhythmic patterns we can fall into as voice actors, how to create non-human creature characters and we delve into a truly mid-atlantic sound.
In this episode of “How Do You Say That?!” sponsored by Voxbox, Dev Joshi joins Sam and Mark to talk about gaming – and rather cleverly we retrofit a gaming script with some entirely new characters. We talk about punctuation, what styles are accessible for kids listening, and the strict timings of gaming lines.
In this episode of “How Do You Say That?!”, Ally Murphy joins Sam and Mark to explore creative ways of approaching horror voices for Halloween – yes, we know it’s early – but clients are already beginning to ask for it! We also tackle a video game script in some surprising ways, and bring a little old lady out to play.
In this episode of “How do you Say That?!”, Andy B Robinson joins Mark and guest-host Liz Drury to talk about wearing you pants outside your trousers for a superhero commercial read, and how using emotes and humanisation can bring your gaming characters to life!
