Recording the narration!

Well thats the script sorted, even the storyboard. before i can actually animate anything i wanted the recording done to make sure it suited.

Now this was fun....apart from the whole looking like a crazy person reciting the same three strange pages again and again, more specifically reciting each line a dozen times a piece.
it was definitely interesting.

I had intended on recording a male voice all along, but due to a few unreliable volunteers, i ended up doing it myself.
At least when i did it myself i could control the tempo and redo it as many times as i wanted without apologizing to someone voice acting for me. However i hate the sound of my own voice, and it definitely doesnt suit the final animation, however for future projects i think it would be useful to record a draft version ie my voice over, for timing purposes etc, and to give the voice actor a better idea of what they should do.

I found it incredibly useful for the animatic but not the final animation.

When recording myself i tried recording a full version.
i tried recording line my line.
breath by breath.
scene by scene.
i then had to rerecord everything due to format problems, however this set back turned out to be a blessing in disguise, because the different recording equipment i used got rid of a static background i couldnt shake.
Though the final version isnt perfect, its far better than earlier drafts, so i could definitely see an improvement from start to finish.

There are a few lines i just couldnt get right, but i think thats down to the fact my voice wasnt suitable, its female and not snarky enough. my least favorite recorded line was the 'where are my manners' part, it doesnt seem to sound right, but i recorded it every which way i could, it was down to unsuitability rather than not capturing the right tone.