Actor Growth

I volunteered my time today for a project that a student was doing for his course that involved doing a voice over for an anime clip where I had to make up a voice for three characters. It was done in a recording studio at a school that was similar to what you would see in a professional recording environment.

It was kind of interesting as they wanted me to speak the characters with a Japanese accent yet all the dialogue was in English. The person even mentioned himself that he wanted it to be entirely in Japanese, but the instructor told him to do it this way as a challenge to a certain extent I guess you can say.

I have always found too in film that usually requests to speak English with an Asian accent usually happens to be Japanese for some reason. This is actually the first time that I had to try and voice three different characters. The obvious challenge is trying to make everyone sound distinctively different too. That’s why I am amazed at some people such as the actors on the Simpson and how one actor does the voices of so many people.

One acting coach told me that you have to simply just practice and experimenting with different voices as it is the only way you can truly learn.