Because documentaries are marginalized, the voice actors who narrate or are called narrators for documentaries are even less well known.
In fact, they are all elites of the middle and Chinese art, and they also dubbed the film and television dramas that the audience is familiar with. It is precisely because of these solid skills that their documentary narration is pure and charming, which can be called a natural sound.
I have had the privilege of working with zhang jiasheng, Xu Tao, Li Lihong and other dubbing masters many times, and I have a close feeling of their artistic achievements and voice charm, and I also have a personal experience of the importance of dubbing for documentaries and even film and television dramas.
1. Zhang Jiasheng - a veritable master of sound.
Zhang Jiasheng is well known to listeners and audiences for his novel How Steel is Made and his narrator for the film Armageddon.
His penetrating and infectious voice captivated listeners and viewers. Zhang Jiasheng became a language master with Sun Daolin, Bi Ke, Fang Ming and other voice masters for a while, and many people took listening to Zhang Jiasheng's voice as a kind of enjoyment.
Dubbing master Zhang Jiasheng
This is all due to Zhang Jiasheng's profound drama skills.
Zhang Jiasheng has been active in the Chinese drama stage since the 1960s, and has been famous for starring in the dramas "Beijingers" and "Windsor's Merry Ladies", and won the "Golden Lion Award", the highest award in Chinese drama.
After the rise of documentaries, Zhang Jiasheng naturally became the best person for dubbing, and he continued to serve as an interpreter for large-scale documentaries such as "Mr. Lu Xun" and "Confucius". With an accurate grasp of the characters and rich language processing, he shaped two great Chinese cultural figures for the audience, and also pulled them from history to today.
Author and teacher Zhang Jiasheng
Since making documentaries, I have deeply felt the importance of dubbing, and realized that sound determines the taste and quality of a documentary. Therefore, I contacted Teacher Zhang Jiasheng, but I did not expect that he readily agreed.
Our first cooperation was a documentary on the theme of spaceflight, and Mr. Zhang used his rich voice to not only show the tenacity of Chinese aerospace workers, but also express the natural sound of rockets in the sky. After listening, it gave people a sense of heaviness and beauty, which added a lot to my documentary debut.
Zhang Jiasheng recited
With the help of Zhang Jiasheng's voice, I have been unable to make a difference in documentary creation, shooting more than 30 documentaries in more than 20 years, almost all of which have cooperated with Teacher Zhang. Among them, "Shaanxi Writer" and "Third-line Student Soldier Company" have the greatest influence, and it mainly depends on the charm of Teacher Zhang's voice. Many viewers said: Watching Zhang Jiasheng's dubbed documentary, even if you don't look at the picture, listening to the sound is a great enjoyment.
During this period, Zhang Jiasheng was also active in the recitation circle. He used an infectious voice to send Tang poems and Song poems to the ears of the audience; let the sound of "Long Live the People" shock countless people.
Naturally, Mr. Zhang's recitation enriched his dubbing of documentaries, making him the first person in Chinese documentary dubbing that is difficult to surpass.
Voice artist Xu Tao
2. Xu Tao - the owner of a variety of sound elements.
After Zhang Jiasheng's elderly and inconvenient dubbing, I transferred the cooperation of the documentary to Teacher Xu Tao.
Xu Tao is an outstanding voice actor in the new era, he has dubbed hundreds of translated films such as "Hamlet", "The Count of Monte Cristo", "Saving Private Ryan" and so on, and has also served as a narrator or voice actor in hundreds of domestic TV series such as "Romance of the Three Kingdoms", "Water Margin" and "Lurking".
There are more documentaries dubbed by Xu Tao, and documentaries on major themes such as "Xinhai Revolution" and "The Road of Xuanzang" are all voiced by Xu Tao, and because his voice has improved the taste of these documentaries and improved the influence of documentaries.
Xu Tao recited
Xu Tao's voice is gorgeous, thick, magnetic and charming. It can be said that he has all the beautiful sound elements.
Listening to his voice, people can imagine the brilliant night sky of the brilliant stars, imagine the sea surface with white sails, imagine the battlefield where thousands of horses are galloping, guns and bullets are raining, and there will also be ancient and modern figures appearing in front of your eyes.
Therefore, it is really a blessing to be able to cooperate with Teacher Xu Tao.
In just a few years, we have cooperated in 5 TV documentaries, and Xu Tao has expressed different emotions with different voices, enhancing the appeal of the serious theme.
I remember that there is a commentary describing the 40 degrees north latitude of the earth, and through Xu Tao's voice, the mystery of 40 degrees north latitude suddenly comes out, bringing people into the mysterious and magical world outside the sky.
For example, in the documentary showing "Imperial Capital Xianyang", Xu Tao can use his rich humanistic connotations to read out a thick sense of history, making people feel that the Great Qin Empire rushed in from more than 2,000 years ago, realizing the audiovisual effect of "its mighty power".
Li Lihong, who has the sound of nature
3. Li Lihong - an artist who makes a natural sound.
To discuss which documentary has the greatest impact and the highest ratings in these years, it is naturally "China on the Tip of the Tongue".
The success of this documentary, in addition to the grounding of its subject matter and the exquisite picture, the role of dubbing is very important.
The voice actor is Li Lihong, who is currently the most active in the dubbing industry.
Li Lihong's voice is different from the previous two dubbing masters, he speaks eloquently, his voice is like flowing water, and it is more like the sound of nature.
Li Lihong is dubbing
The characteristics of Li Lihong's natural voice are interpreted to the extreme in the documentary "China on the Tip of the Tongue".
His eloquent voice and the charm of the wise man make Chinese food full of spirituality and fragrance, and listening to his voice can make people salivate.
Li Lihong's dubbing style also integrates narrative and lyricism, expressing the rich emotions and hard-won of Chinese food culture in the process of narrative. For example, at the end of the first episode of "China on the Tip of the Tongue", a poetic voice seems to fall from the sky and float into the hearts of the audience:
When we enjoy food away from nature, we should be most grateful to these people who have paid their labor and wisdom, and nature uses her generosity and trustworthiness as a reward and reward for human beings.
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I also had the privilege of working with Li Lihong, feeling the charm of his natural voice up close, and bearing the improvement and beautification of his voice to my works.
More importantly, the cooperation with sound masters such as Zhang Jiasheng, Xu Tao, Li Lihong and so on has made me further realize the importance of sound to film and television works, and further understand the connotation of the famous words of Iranian film master Abbas:
Sound is more important than the picture, the shooting is at best a flat image, and the sound continues the depth of the picture.
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