29/01/15

We started off today by watching a clip from Disney's Robin Hood. This was linked to today's subject: animation voice overs. After watching this clip we got into groups and chose a scene from Robin Hood that we wanted to do. We chose the Birthday Party. The members of my group and cast list is below:

• Myself (Rosina Collins)      Skippy's Baby Sister
• Helen Patterson                Skippy
• Helen Wilson                    Skippy’s Older Sister
• Jack Harrison                   The Sheriff
• Katie Smith                      Toby
• Caitlin Collins                    Robin Hood
• Chloe Wood                      Skippy’s Mother

We had a lot of fun rehearsing this and finding different ways to say it using various accents and tone of voice. We eventually decided to do an American accent with a slight Texan in it. For my character, as she is a toddler, I have to use a baby voice. I found this very fun as I was able to experiment with my voice a lot more and have fun with it. I tried to give my character a slight lisp and stutter on some words as children this age are still learning to speak properly and I think that that made the character more believable.

I really enjoyed today's lesson a lot more than what I thought I would as I didn't think that I would be able to do that well with changing my voice into that of a cartoon character.

I will post the recording and a picture of my script shortly after this so that you can all have a listen and a read.