I hate my voice...

2/15/2013

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Me and William Shatner in 2011 at Emerald City Comic Con
So, here I am editing the film together and loving the visuals beyond measure. Then I recorded some narration....and I realized that I hate the sound of my voice.
The narration is a necessity and, if I had a time machine and about $4K in change lying around, I would gladly have paid someone to do it.
"No," I assured myself, "You can do the narration. I mean, hell, you talk to yourself all the dang time anyway."
Part of my problem stems from being hearing-impaired. I no longer have stereophonic hearing and my "good" ear has significant loss. So, things just don't sound right when I listen to them through headphones.
My other - larger - problem is that I have the acting ability of a wet turnip. So, although I'm pretty clear in what I say, I don't feel the delivery inflects any emotion.
I'm still working on it and I seriously hope I'll get there.
However, if for some reason I am unsatisfied and it's the day before I'm supposed to have the rough cut finished, I'm going with a William Shatner delivery and echo effects...lots of echo effects.

Cheers,
-Rick
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Final bits....

2/6/2013

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One of the animation "cells."
I just finished up 43 seconds of "final cut" animation for the film. It's a piece I'd been working on for nearly eight months now.
There will be another animated sequence in the film, too. That one is almost ready to be rendered.
The thing about these scenes is that they happened when no one was around to see it - out in the open ocean or under the sand. I chose to animate them because they are both important to the overall story and hard to imagine with just a narrative description.
I hope, too, that younger viewers will gain a better understanding of the whole story from the animated scenes.
Most of all, I'm happy with them...and that is actually saying A LOT.
The film continues to be tweaked and edited. The final storyboards were finished and laid out last weekend.
I can only say that I love this version of the film MORE than I did the first one..and the first version was fantastic.

Cheers,
-Rick
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