"I'm Page, this is my brother George, this is my mom, this is my dad..." When the opening music of the British cartoon "Peppa Pig" sounds, you can't help but sit down and watch it.
This little pink pig has long been one of the hottest characters in cartoons. However, who is the voice behind this image? She is Chen Yiwen, a voice actress from Shanghai.
Chen Yiwen graduated from Tongji University's TV editing and directing major, and entered the dubbing industry, which is purely a "yin and yang difference". In 2010, by chance, a Taiwanese idol movie was about to be broadcast on CCTV6, and the filmmakers hoped to replace the heroine's Taiwanese accent, and hoped that the voice actor's voice would be clean and green and full of novelty. So Chen Yiwen, who was still a "layman" at the time, participated in the audition, and was thus photographed by the film, and accidentally hit and started his own dubbing road.
It's easy to talk, but it's hard to dub. Chen Yiwen has no dubbing experience, lip-syncing, finding tone, brewing emotions, confused Chen Yiwen needs to look at the content on the manuscript and the rhythm of the actor's performance in the picture at the same time, from the beginning of the inability to touch the head, to gradually become skilled, the mouth shape is tightly aligned. It's a process of exploration, but also a process of practice. In this first dubbing, Chen Yiwen herself dubbed a pair of twins with very different personalities at the same time, which was extremely completed and won the praise of the filmmakers.
Since then, the dubbing industry has added another clear female voice. She followed the dubbing director system of her first film to learn dubbing, practiced true knowledge, watched how other famous dubbers mobilized their emotions in the studio, how to cry and laugh and how calm, learned to accumulate, and finally created their own unique style.
In the four years since then, Chen Yiwen has begun to emerge, successively serving as a voice actor in dozens of TV series, from costume dramas to modern dramas, from martial arts films to romance films, as long as it is a role arranged by the filmmakers, she will gladly accept it. In 2014, Chen Yiwen dubbed Zhao Liying, the heroine of "Flowers and Bones", and her good results opened up her popularity and brought her greater challenges.
In 2015, "Peppa Pig" came to the door. Born in the UK in 2004, Peppa Pig was released to rave reviews and garnered countless fans around the world. So far, the cartoon has been broadcast in 180 regions around the world, and it has long been a "net red pig".
However, Chen Yiwen did not know Page. In order to restore this young and cute little pig, she carefully watched the original cartoon and gave her own unique interpretation. The original English voice actors are children, and Chen Yiwen has given her own understanding of China Page. Obviously, Chen Yiwen succeeded, and the Chinese version of "Peppa Pig" immediately became popular after its release in China, and her voice became one of the most beloved voices of children.
"My friends' children often wish I could call them and put them to sleep." Chen Yiwen smiled and said to her colleagues. Because in the eyes of children, she is Page, she is the voice that runs through their childhood dreams.
This is the unique charm of dubbing. It starts from nothingness, connecting reality and imagination, and many years later, maybe the grown-up children will no longer remember the plot of "Peppa Pig", but they will always remember Chen Yiwen's sentence "I am Peppa Pig, this is my brother George." ”
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