Recording The Dialogue
Mark and Jack, the film’s Producer, took a trip down to London on Wednesday to record the dialogue with the film’s two actors, Eiji Kusuhara (left) and Masashi Fujimoto, who are probably best known for their work on Channel 4’s Banzai, but who have lent their acting and vocal skills to all sorts of things, including features, shorts, commercials, cartoons, computer games and opera. Obviously, as it’s a 60-second film, there’s not too much dialogue, so the recording was simple enough, just an hour spent at Aumeta, a little studio in South London. The dialogue is recorded before the animation is completed for the simple reason that the animation is to a certain degree built around the dialogue, with lip-syncing of the character’s mouth movements obviously requiring recorded dialogue. But now we have this stage complete, once the preferred takes have been chosen the animation will be able to start in earnest.
The rest of the sound is also on the go, with Newcastle’s own MudShark Audio beginning work on building the film’s soundscape and music. They’re going to be developing ideas alongside the animation, partly because they can’t do a final mix until the animation is complete (and we haven’t got time to do one after the other), and partly because we hope that each stage will inspire ideas in the others, with audio ideas feeding back into the visuals and vice versa.
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