Museum Blog Assignment!!!

I had to write another blog for the assignment:

1st: What I chose to write about---Automated Dialogue Replacement.

My favorite part of the whole museum. The tour was short, but a few of us, after exploring ourselves first, made a tour of our own. First stop, the automated booth. We walked in with a different group of high school students and their tour guide, who taught all of us the different elements/functions to doing voiceovers. The tour guide showed us an example with a high school student, by using the movie Babe. It was great. After the tour guide was then we all left the booth. Then, I suggested that we should go back in, and ohh how I'm glad we did.

It was less crowded the second time, just us four. We looked through the selection of movies and three of us gave it a go. The movie I chose, Coming to America. The audio played my lines first so I could rehearse, then the second time, I was recorded. I've seen this movie dozens of times, but the words went by so fast, it was hard to keep up. When I heard the playback, there was one segment in which I said, aaaaaaaaaaa (and no, that was not part of the scene ^.^). I learned how hard it could be to do voiceovers.

I was always interested in this form of media production and knew that these devices have been here for a long time. Being a long time fan of anime, I quite often thought about how people supplemented their voices for the characters and how I would do in trying this.

Throughout the years, voiceovers have helped society as a whole in terms of communication, immensely. Whether it was for translating into a different language or adding voice to an animal or animated character (to give a more humanistic appeal, reach a certain audience, to make more "entertaining", etc), it has become a large component of our lifestyle and something we've become used to. While watching a movie on a certain channel, there are times in which the film might contain language not suitable for that channel's viewers, in turn, the movie might supply a voiceover of a less offensive word/phrase. A very subtle change, sometimes hardly recognizable, but used so often.

It was nice trying out the station. There was so much work put into every object within the museum. Just furthering my appreciation for this area.