As we only have a month left to finish the project, this week we made some amendments to the script in order to get it below the estimated 4-5 minute mark, down to a more manageable 2-3 minutes; working out to around roughly 1 minute of animation per person in the group. We cut several minor scenes, such as transitionary shots, as well as some of the filler during the narrators segments; not wanting to effect the comedic timing on some of the larger set-pieces such as the rant at the end of the animation.
We enlisted Max to play the part of Keith in our final animation, as he has some experience voice acting, having voiced the majority of the class' animations at some point in his three years at LCA. Max also nailed the Matt Berry/ Alan Partridge voice we wanted for our animation, channeling the personality of a poncey, aristocratic British person in a hilariously caricatured way. In the week leading up to the recording we went through the script with Max so he could get a better feel for the character, clarifying a few things which were unclear and asking for any input he had in order to flesh out the character to be more three-dimensional.
Our main recording session with Max lasted around 40 minutes, in which Tess directed Max from the script and I was in charge of the recording and organising the sound files in Audacity, Me and Tess were fairly back and forth with suggestions for how Max should approach the reading, though Tess seemed to have a better feel for his performance n the context of the animation as a whole, so I trusted her word the few times we did voice disagreements over certain emphasis and intonation in Max's performance.
After recording Max's voice and editing his lines into the animatic, we enlisted some other people off our course to play the passers-by in the crowd scene of our animation. In the script we didnt have much to go by, as they're just throwaway lines designed to move the plot forward, so we enlisted some of our friends who had distinctive voices. We got Ollie and Rosie to read for both parts so we could decide in the editing process who was best for each part. I booked the sound booth for half an hour one afternoon and recorded three takes of each of them reading each of the lines. Recording only took around 10 minutes.
For our final animatic, we ultimately ended up keeping some elements from our Temp audio recording such as my narration, which Tess argued fit well and I had the right voice for, and Brogan's 'no' as Steve, which was so dissonant it was too funny not to keep.
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