Monday 31st of October
Today we decided that we should look for voice actors to star in our radio production to give it a level of quality but before we got to that Charlene and Helen wanted to pitch our idea. we began talking about the general idea and the narrative, the idea is about a young soldier that has been drafted as a result of Russia attacking the United Kingdom in an act of war. The story follows this soldier as he travels with his battalion to London and the challenges he faces. We then discussed the targets demographics and the genre as well as what radio show we would host the war drama on. After we pitched the ideas we began our work of looking for voice actors, the first place we found was North West Actors (http://www.northwestactors.co.uk/) which had a range of verity of talent to choose from. After looking through a lot of different actors we found one that stood out and would be a great addition to our radio production (http://www.northwestactors.co.uk/pages/male_page.html?12) ,Mr Mulhern being an ex-army sergeant and would have the experience and voice of how to speak and react in the situations our sergeant character would have to do. While i was looking for actors I realised I needed to get better acquainted in how to hire and find capable actors for my job and future productions I will be working on. I went out to look for useful groups to use for actors and found the Manchester Voluntary Actors & Filmmakers which is a closed group with over 700 members that I used to see if I could find more voice actors however it is a closed group so you must be approved to use it. (https://www.facebook.com/groups/1639415332998687/)
Tuesday 1st of November
On this day we decided to delegate roles to make the process easier, Nico decided that I would continue the job I was doing earlier and keep trying to get actors on board while Josh looked for sound effects and Nico continued writing his scripts. while I was looking for more groups for the production I decided to email Mr Mulhern to see if he would be willing to do voice acting for us. after I sent the email I decided to help Josh out with finding the sound effects which was rather difficult as many of the sounds were very fake and artificial and others didn't work for what we were looking for. A site we both found was (http://soundbible.com/) which has a wide range of sound for us to use for our production.
Sound effects are very important in creating a real world that's alive rather than just your character's speech within your radio production. One of these is the ability to find the correct sounds for the job however you cant always find everything so you have to make them yourself. similar to a foley artist who make sound effects using certain object we would also need to replicate the sounds that we needed such as a large gun being moved around or a rocket launcher being thrown to the main character. This video help me ut very much in seeing how much goes into creating such sounds for production (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MHAIgJsMoXw), this video helped show me how much detail and effort you need to make these sound but theu can be replicated by object that can be found anywhere and becuase of this we had an opertunity to create sounds for our radio production like these foley artists do for big budget film in the industry.
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