"Jiang Ziya" and "Liu Li", one is the National Day file to win 1.5 billion yuan of national comic masterpieces, and the other is a popular costume drama with a rating of 7.6 points. Two seemingly unrelated film and television works are linked by one person.
He is a veteran voice actor and dubbing director Jiang Guangtao who has been in the industry for 25 years and has contributed to classic film and television works such as "Titanic", "The Lord of the Rings", "Transformers", "Langyabang" and so on.
In "Jiang Ziya", he is the "Heavenly Lord" who is both good and evil, and in "Liu Li", he transforms into a master brother Haochen, fully showing the changing voice line of the "sound magician".
In the past 25 years, he has grown all the way from Long Film to an industry bull, from the initial translation and production to popular TV series and two-dimensional works, Jiang Guangtao's resume also reflects the development trajectory of the dubbing industry. Follow "Behind the Scenes", let's walk into the secret realm of Jiang Guangtao's voice.
The voice behind "Jiang Ziya"
"If the way of heaven is unjust, I will go my own way." "Jiang Ziya" not only caused a hot discussion because of its unique painting style and profound theme, but also a strong voice team behind the scenes. Director Cheng Teng admitted that "Jiang Ziya" is very difficult to dub, because its plot and characters are not like ordinary animation, but more like a live-action movie.
The dubbing process of the film is as harsh as the production, and the audition begins from the early story version, including 50+ people such as voice actors, live actors, and ordinary people participating in the trial matching, which took more than half a month overall. In a scene about the wronged soul in the film, it was finally determined that more than twenty male voices and more than a dozen female voices participated in order to achieve a relatively rich state of high frequency and low frequency.
Voice director Huang Zhenji said: "All the members of the whole team have a more authentic spirit. Zheng Xi, the voice actor of the male protagonist Jiang Ziya, once served as the dubbing director of "Ode to Joy", dubbing stars such as Zhang Zhen and Zhang Han, and interpreting Jiang Ziya's personality traits of cold outside and hot inside.
What is more challenging is that he also has to constantly switch between the different ages of youth, middle age and old age, with an age span of 80 years old, "twenty years old in one scene, and seventy-eighty or even one hundred years old in another scene." ”
Jiang Ziya's "opposite", Tianzun, is interpreted by the more experienced Jiang Guangtao. In his understanding, Tianzun was on the surface high, but also hid a lot of things in his heart.
He consulted with the director that when Tianzun said the lines that emphasized emotions, he had to suppress all the emotions and create an image of a god who was not angry and arrogant, and was not insulted. The director was also deeply impressed by Jiang Guangtao's "obsessive-compulsive disorder", saying that he was a person with extremely high self-requirements, although there were not many lines, but every sentence had to be repeatedly deliberated, and he took the initiative to "grind" more than a dozen times.
Not only Jiang Guangtao, but also the famous actor Ji Guanlin, who has voiced "The Biography of Zhen Huan" and "The Condor Heroes", also played two roles in "Jiang Ziya" this time, combining the nine tails of the demon king and the charming god Su Da.
When dubbing Nine-Tails, she cleverly added the voice of the beast to the vocal outlet, reaching the realm of "human-beast unity". In a behind-the-scenes video, in order to interpret the pain of the character, Ji Guanlin shouted even more hoarsely and burst into flames.
Many people did not expect that all the sounds of the Four Beasts were completed by the voice actor Yan Momo. Although there is not a single "line", each milky roar and delicate cry adds a lot of cuteness to the four.
In the interview, Jiang Guangtao said that dubbing animated characters is "free" and challenging. Without live-action performance as a gripper, it can best show the performance strength of the voice actors, and also give the actors the opportunity to shape the characters from scratch.
In recent years, with the comprehensive rise of national comics, animation films such as "The Return of the Great Sage", "The Demon Boy of Nezha", "Jiang Ziya" and other animation films have frequently created box office miracles, and dramas such as "Magic Ancestor", "Fox Demon Little Red Lady", "Assassin Wu Liuqi" and other dramas have continued to come out of the circle, and we are also pleased to see that the "sound magicians" behind a number of animations such as Jiang Guangtao, Bian Jiang, Zhang Jie, Qiao Shiyu, Zhang Lei, and Han Mo have the opportunity to go to the "front of the stage" and gain more and more audience recognition and applause.
Returning is still a "teenager"
Jiang Guangtao's entry experience can be described by four words: "coincidence". In high school, he was a school broadcaster, and the teacher suggested that he apply for the Beijing Broadcasting Institute (the predecessor of the Communication University of China), but unfortunately failed. Later, when he encountered the Long Film Translation Studio to recruit voice actors, Jiang Guangtao successfully passed the examination, and he wanted to be an announcer, so he accidentally stepped into the door of dubbing.
In August this year, Jiang Guangtao returned to Changchun Film Studio
In the years of learning and practicing in Long Shadow, Jiang Guangtao did not have a smooth life, although he learned a lot of dubbing knowledge from his predecessors, but because of the limitations of sound conditions, he was not worthy of the main role.
"When I first started in the industry, the tone was very, very tender, and in the words of the teacher, it still had a 'milky taste'. At that time, the image of the main characters in the film and television drama was still relatively tall, and the resonance of various cavities was particularly strong, and it must not be the voice of 'little bean sprouts' like me. Jiang Guangtao recalled.
At that time, most of the characters assigned to him were small eunuchs and little hooligans. Changying's teacher even kindly advised him: you may never get the main role, it is better to change careers as soon as possible.
In 1997, with confusion and wandering, Jiang Guangtao also came to Beijing from Changchun with the tide of the times and began the "North Drift" years. With the mentality of not pressing down on his body, Jiang Guangtao chose the recording department of the Beijing Film Academy to continue his studies. Although he studied recording, at the same time as going to school, Jiang Guangtao did the most is the old line of dubbing. One of his masterpieces, the Lord of the Rings series, was completed by him "half-work and half-reading" during this period.
"I went to record 'The Lord of the Rings' and found that they were all big names, the most famous in this circle, and I looked up to the teachers who were doing supporting roles. Why am I the protagonist? Because all the teachers' voices are thicker, only I am a little boy (voice), I stole this advantage. Jiang Guangtao sighed, it is really a defeat also a voice line, and a voice line.
Later, with the continuous development of the two-dimensional industry and the change of aesthetics, Jiang Guangtao's innate "juvenile tone" became more and more popular. He has interpreted a large number of "male god" roles, and has also voiced Wu Qilong, Xie Tingfeng, Feng Shaofeng, Liu Kaiwei, Zhang Han and other popular young students many times, and the once bean sprout sound has now become the "handsome brother tone" and "male god tone" in the mouths of fans.
Jiang Guangtao has created a classic role
Along the way, Jiang Guangtao, who is "talented", has experienced a period of confusion and wandering, working part-time as a door-to-door salesman and tape salesman, but with a tenacity, he has never left the job of dubbing.
25 years ago with more than 400 yuan tuition to Changying, and then carrying a quilt to Beijing to do north drift, all the way stumbled into today's dubbing god, no matter the voice or mentality, there is a sentence to describe Jiang Guangtao is particularly appropriate, "May you walk out of half your life, return is still a teenager." ”
"Voice actors want to make yourself transparent"
"Shed Bug" is a nickname given to Jiang Guangtao by insiders, who work in the shed for about 12 hours a day on average, which is also the norm for many voice actors.
"I have to work fifteen or six hours a day to nineteen hours. Because the project is more anxious, the work starts at 12 o'clock in the afternoon and ends at 12 o'clock in the evening, if the amount of this day is not completed, it is also necessary to explore the black, and there are also two o'clock and three o'clock. The worst one was the continuous shaft rotation, which basically worked 24 hours and 21 hours. Jiang Guangtao said.
In order to keep the environment quiet, the recording studio is not only closed, but also can not turn on the fan and air conditioning, and the actors can not wear down jackets, storm jackets and other costumes that are easy to make noise. A person, a microphone, sometimes in order to find the feeling that the lights can not be turned on, the flowers can not be put, this is the "battlefield" of many voice actors.
"We're facing a microphone, cold, worthy of the heat, a play over, the world is quiet. Whether you can settle for this silence or not, this is your concentration. ”
Recalling his initial experience in the industry, "slow and hot" Jiang Guangtao admitted that he was nervous in the recording studio for the first five years, "Dubbing especially emphasizes listening more, seeing more and feeling more, many times it is not the teacher who teaches you enough, only in life to accumulate, integration is their own ability." ”
Ji Guanlin also revealed in an interview that before entering the industry, he had to practice on TV every day, "If there is no training volume of 2,000 to 4,000 episodes, I dare not say that I can dub."
Jiang Guangtao's almost strict dedication to dubbing is especially reflected in the film "The Sound of the Wind" directed by him as a lineman. Huang Xiaoming is voiced by a Japanese actor, Toshisaku Kudo. Kudo needed to learn Chinese from scratch and constantly switched between Chinese and Japanese, and he couldn't find a state at first. Jiang Guangtao once asked him to repeat a sentence hundreds of times, and he could only match two or three lines a day.
"You're already familiar with every shot to the point of being unfamiliar. A lot of people ask me if the movie is good, and I don't know because I'm already in it. So many years later, at the teacher's family gathering, Jiang Guangtao overheard a line of "The Sound of the Wind" on the TV and the cold hair would stand up, which was the muscle memory generated by repeated over and over again.
Many people say that the wonderful performances of voice actors can often save the acting skills of many actors. Jiang Guangtao stressed that when dubbing live-action film and television works, voice actors should be committed to making themselves "transparent", and cannot be blocked between the audience and the characters, "the better the match, the more the voice actor has no sense of existence." Making one's sense of existence high will only make people hate. ”
In the face of the advent of the Internet era, voice actors gradually went out of the circle, from the backstage to the front of the stage, Jiang Guangtao believes that it is a double-edged sword.
He once said in an interview: As a voice actor, the end should be clear. First of all, the basic skills of being a voice actor must be excellent; secondly, it is the understanding of art, and it is necessary to have the ability to "match" and "act", which is the premise. If it is just for the sake of "circle fans", pretending to be a voice actor, but not doing a good job of dubbing, then he is not in the same industry as me.
Looking back on his 25-year dubbing career, Jiang Guangtao used the most simple words to express the ethics of a voice actor: "In the past twenty-five years in this industry, I can't say that I am conscientious, at least I work honestly, work seriously, and be worthy of myself, I feel good." ”