BrianJepson
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| quote: | | I hope you don't mind my asking, but does recording separately from the rest of the cast create an extra challenge as far as timing a scene or getting its emotion down the way you want? I don't know much about the recording or editing process at all, but I'd imagine that it's easier, and certainly more fun, to be in the same studio as the other actors. |
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For recording Animé, the voice actors are never in the same room at the same time since The animation has already been done. Really, the only time that actors are all in the room together is before any animation has been done so that they can match up the mouths to how the actors performed. Since we have to match the "mouth flaps" in the existing animation, we need to focus on only one character at a time and one voice actor at a time. The hard part about dubbing Japanese Animé is seeing the script for the first time pretty much the instant that you are going to record it. We don't get to study the lines beforehand. You are sitting there staring at two screens, one with the script and one with the cartoon. Getting the emotions right and understanding what's going on in the scene at a moment's notice is probably the most challenging part. Really, it's kind of fun to see if you can match up the "mouth flaps" on your first readthrough. It's almost like a little game.
| quote: | | (If I may ask, how did you get started in voice-over acting? Was it something you purposefully set out to do, or did you start off doing something else at first, which then led you to where you are now?) |
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All my life I have recorded myself doing silly voices or acting out skits and things like that. Eventually people started asking me if I was in radio and that they thought that I had a good voice. I never considered going into radio, but I eventually took a one night class to learn how to get into the voice acting industry. After that class there was a more in-depth class where you actually practiced real-world scenarios in an actual recording studio with just a few other students. At the end of that class the teacher, who is a professional voice actor herself, told each of us whether we were ready to move onto the next step or not. The next step was to put together a voice demo and then shop around to find an agent. I put together the demo and found an agent to represent me and then I started going on auditions. I started getting jobs and eventually got some Animé jobs that led to knowing producers at ADV. Once producers and directors know you know what you're capable of they like to keep using you, and that's how Charlie Campbell had me come in to audition with the idea that he wanted me to play Joe. I don't know if you have watched the DVD extras of the actual auditions for all of the Gatchaman characters. You can see how other people did in their auditions and then the last people they show are the ones that actually got the jobs, including me.
| quote: | | Giday Mate, big welcome from Australia. |
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Thanks, LW! I've never been to Australia, but I've heard some Aussies say that Austin, where I live, reminds them of how Australia looks.
| quote: | Brian, I'd love to know what your favorite episode is...and maybe your favorite line? My personal fav of yours is, "Let's shoot ' em a few birds..."
And of course, every time you mention the " super BMs"...how in the world did you keep a straight face with that? |
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I really couldn't say what my favorite episode is because there are so many of them. My favorite lines were always ones that we were able to have fun with in the moment while recording them. A lot of the more silly ones like the "super BM" line were made up to make ourselves laugh. They weren't necessarily in the script as we were recording them, but there was a lot of leeway to add or take away from dialogue. I only had to keep a straight face until they stopped recording, and then I would crack up after some of those lines.
| quote: | | Welcome Brian... your voice certainly is the right one for Condor Joe... thanks for making his character come to life in the Gatchaman series. Having always loved BOTP, I wasn't sure if Gatchaman would live up to my thoughts and story lines in my head. With your help, I was proven wrong. |
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Thank you very much! We record these things and they get released in a vacuum, with very little feedback as to how people have accepted or rejected them. It's always nice to hear that something I've worked hard on has been well received. I say 'work hard,' but it's not really hard work. I would drive down to Houston in the afternoon, record the two or three or four hour session, spend the night and then drive back to Austin the next morning. I spent the night with friends so I didn't have to get a hotel room or anything, and this went on for at least a year or so if memory serves. It got so that I really looked forward to my little jaunts down to my hometown for a night of recording and seeing my old friends.
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24-02-2014 17:33
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Redbird
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I am a Condor.
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24-02-2014 23:43
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You should join us for some Bradbury's Jar prompts!
"The heart has its reasons, of which reason knows nothing." -- Blaise Pascal 
Playing darts with the Condor's feather shuriken... 