As a result, he has that flat, neutral mid-Western accent that American actors seem to cultivate, to the extent of shaving their distinctive regional tones to have in the space of the narration. As a result, when he drifts into character accents, the markers are subtle but distinct. For instance, the slower, syrupy tones in Sessions' Southern accent. Or the sarcastic, bitter drawl of Bannon when it comes to Jarvanka.
He softens voices when it comes to women, but even then he gets the flinty brazenness of Conway, and the tight unhinged nature of Ann Coulter. For Melania Trump, he tries to go to that strange non accented English Western Europeans have, although her accent is distinctly Eastern European, but it's the idea that she isn't American that comes across than getting her to sound Eastern European, you know? It's how he implies her foreignness without saying so.
I do think the slipping from narration to character voice is difficult
Oh yeah, same. For the sake of my German pronunciation, I've been recording myself reading a page once every two days. It's a child's book, so there's the line of narrative voice, and then dialogue.
As in, "No, I do not wish to go to bed", Millie wailed, stomping her feet. I find myself saying everything in the same, flat voice of narrative, so I've been working on that. Going from neutral narrative to the sharper mood of the dialogue. It really is difficult.
No worries! I think this process of podficcing has helped me with my writing, in that I'm trying to shave off dialogue tags, and make the transitions from neutral narrative to dialogue.
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it helps Graham was an actor
Date: 2018-01-08 08:53 am (UTC)He softens voices when it comes to women, but even then he gets the flinty brazenness of Conway, and the tight unhinged nature of Ann Coulter. For Melania Trump, he tries to go to that strange non accented English Western Europeans have, although her accent is distinctly Eastern European, but it's the idea that she isn't American that comes across than getting her to sound Eastern European, you know? It's how he implies her foreignness without saying so.
I do think the slipping from narration to character voice is difficult
Oh yeah, same. For the sake of my German pronunciation, I've been recording myself reading a page once every two days. It's a child's book, so there's the line of narrative voice, and then dialogue.
As in, "No, I do not wish to go to bed", Millie wailed, stomping her feet. I find myself saying everything in the same, flat voice of narrative, so I've been working on that. Going from neutral narrative to the sharper mood of the dialogue. It really is difficult.
No worries! I think this process of podficcing has helped me with my writing, in that I'm trying to shave off dialogue tags, and make the transitions from neutral narrative to dialogue.