Ok so this is an example of stuff related to real world voice stuff where I feel like voice actors have a secret Like completely leaving gender aside, Troy Baker doesn't sound like ANY character he has played when speaking just as himself.https://youtu.be/MFLtbCf4L60
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And I want to know how he, and most voice actors, do that. How do you transform your voice into a "character"? I may sound like a woman to people, but the difference between the woman I sound like and the woman I want to sound like is basically the same as Troy Baker vs Joel
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Replying to @BootlegGirl
As someone who's taken a lot of acting classes, it's one of those things that's more easily taught through practice than described in words, even at length I'm not one to buy into really mystical descriptions of acting but that much is basically true
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Ah, yet another thing I can blame the apocalyptic plague destroying America for me not doing It's really nice, you know, when you've got excuses for things that are hard to argue with, like the apocalyptic plague that makes it unsafe to be near any other human
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I mean like you can certainly make a list of things Baker does to transform his normal voice into his "Joel voice" - to convey that Joel is older, he has Joel speak in shorter sentences, his voice is pitched slightly deeper, there's less musicality and more monotone, etc
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Replying to @arthur_affect @BootlegGirl
And as an experienced actor Baker is certainly aware of all of these things and can add or subtract or adjust them if asked to by a director But you don't "build a character" usually by consciously picking and choosing all these little components and adding them up
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Replying to @arthur_affect @BootlegGirl
At least not nowadays The Method, as we call it, was about approaching this from the other direction, you get in touch with yourself and your "instrument" and get an intuitive sense how it authentically feels when you're in a different mental state and how your voice/body reacts
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And you use that as the "components" that you build the character from Like instead of saying Joel has a deeper pitch, a less varied tone, a more staccato delivery, etc, more likely you'd say he's "cold", he's "blunt", he's "detached", he's "closed off"
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Replying to @arthur_affect
So the part that's I guess a philosophical question is, I assume Baker considers how he sounds on a podcast to be more "him" than the manly-men he universally gets cast as. Did he create the voice he uses for his podcast too, or is that just completely unmodulated
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We all create voices all the time, obviously, just usually without as much conscious intent We've talked about how "YouTube voice" is a thing and how people aware they're presenting something for the camera tend to force more energy into their voice than when speaking normally
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Replying to @arthur_affect
Yeah I mean I know from experience YouTube Voice is the same as First Year Lecturer Voice
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