Wam's World

Voices Off

Busy day yesterday. I went to DLSU for a voiceover job Rachelle managed to get for me and herself, a English language lesson series produced by Mike Lim for his "client," a Chinese student. I arrived an hour early (12 noon) to have lunch with Eileen at Pancake House (she mentioned something about Carol coming home for good from her waitressing job in Spain). Afterwards she showed me her office in the College of Saint Benilde's student publications, which she heads. We met up with Rachelle as she came in CSB (she later gave me Christmas gift and a friendship band she got during her vacation in Baguio last week, though I've yet to buy her that MIDI cable she wants) and finally went to see Mike at the multimedia room where he was in a thesis defense panel. The thesis students being "grilled" made a website for what looked like a "CrossGen" alternative story world, where local comic writers or artists can submit and read their stuff. Long story short: the website sucked, their students ill-prepared to answer Mike's questions, and they have to re-defend their thesis.

After all of that Mike, Rachelle and I headed for DLSU's Miguel Building (ah, the old homestead) for the 3pm recording that should've started at 1, but then again I'm just hired help so who am I to complain? We had some hilarious moments while recording and finding out I was actually reading a female part. Sometimes the conversation pieces read like the prelude to a porn flick ("Could you help me? The zipper on my blouse got caught."), and it came to pieces that needed 3 people, Rache and I took turns changing our voices, with her laughing at mine more than I did hers. Hey, it isn't easy changing character voices without the benefit of a exaggerated accent. The session went on 'til 9, no breaks, and we managed to finish the conversation book, but there was still the word pronounciation manual. Since Mike had a deadline and couldn't make use of the room again before that (and that fact that Rache and I were paid in full and thus obligated to finish this), I volunteered the use of my office's recording room for next week. Good thing I have a handle on the Edit Pro program. Got home around 10 minutes before 10, and X-Files was a rerun.