Recently, I have begun to focus on a very interesting area - dubbing.
For voice actors Wu Lei, Zhao Lu, Feng Junhua, Xia Lei... These names may be relatively unfamiliar to you, but if you talk about Harry Potter (voiced by: Wu Lei) in the Chinese version of Harry Potter, Zhao Min (voiced by Feng Junhua) in "Yi Tian Slaughter dragon", Dongfang Yuqing (voiced by: Zhao Lu) in "Flowers and Bones", and Ouyang Ke (voiced by: Xia Lei) in "The Legend of the Eagle Hero", you will suddenly realize: "Oh - it turns out that these are their voices!" ”
The following is recorded from an interview program with The Voice Actors produced by Weibo Animation, "Mentor Interview".
In this show, they shared their understanding and feelings about the dubbing industry, as well as their respective growth processes, experiences and insights, which is very inspiring.
In order to facilitate everyone to better understand and learn, I have excerpted these contents and combed them a little.
What determines the ultimate achievement of a person's life is roughly divided into five aspects:
Heartfelt love,
Deep understanding of themselves and the industry,
Excellence and even the pursuit of the ultimate professionalism,
Endure loneliness and pay sweat beyond ordinary people,
And, the opportunity and luck that came just right.
A love from the heart
Feng Junhua, the dubbing style is changeable, even across genders. Dubbing involves films, TV series, animation, and games, and covers a wide range of fields. She is recognized by the audience as a good voice, and has created many classics for countless works. For example, in the "Qin Shi Mingyue" series, she played three roles, the protagonist Jing Tianming, a juvenile voice that has not shed childishness, and it is difficult to distinguish between male and female; At the same time, the luna and Yanfei's cold and domineering royal sister style were also vividly interpreted by her.
I found that I liked the job of (dubbing) and it had more than a job for me.
——Xia Lei
For me, dubbing is about trying a different life every day (laughs).
——Feng Junhua
Love allows you to pay more, to work hard, to delve into, to explore, and thus to pursue a more successful success.
- Zhao Lu
Teacher Feng Junhua
Whether it is Xia Lei, feng junhua and Zhao Lu, they all express their deep love for the dubbing industry. This love has gone beyond the work itself, and has given the dubbing an extraordinary meaning in life, and even becomes a very complete way of existence that he chooses as a living being to obey the call of his heart.
This reminds me of a person, the cartoonist Cai Zhizhong.
He once said something that impressed me very much:
"If you're preoccupied with something, you're sure to find this feeling:
The universe is with you, time flows slowly through your body like water, you can only hear the sound of a pen brushing on the paper, and you can't even hear your heartbeat. You feel as if time and space do not exist, you feel that no stroke is superfluous, and every action is complete. Just like when you look at a real tea ceremony master, it is watertight, there will be no superfluous movements, superfluous eyes. When you are truly engaged in that field, you don't have a single thought of superfluous, all silent, in harmony with heaven and earth, that kind of orgasm and happiness is not something that outsiders can get. ”
The "field" he refers to is the field that you really love from the bottom of your heart.
It can be seen that the mediocre are different, and those who have reached the top of the industry, no matter how different the industry is, are amazingly similar - from the heart of love!
Second, we have a very deep understanding of the industry and ourselves
Voice actor Wu Lei
Positioning this thing is for yourself, but in the studio is actually the director for you, of course, each of us will have cognition, cognitive things only depend on how far your own voice range can reach, so in fact, the so-called positioning, is different from person to person.
In my mind, the most comfortable role I deserve must be the role that I think I can master, not the role that I think is particularly handsome.
——Wu Lei
You have to have a more comfortable sound quality, not to say how good it sounds, but to be comfortable and not harsh; second, you have to have a foundation in Mandarin; third, you have to have a certain ability to understand literature, and then you have a certain ability to react to words.
Voice actor, his suffix is "actor", so dubbing is part of the performance, but we highlight the voice, the acting ability in terms of dubbing.
Some people react very quickly, grasp the mouth shape is particularly accurate, grasp the emotion is particularly in place, like these people we will say that he is particularly talented.
Acting well, even if you don't speak Mandarin well, is right and correct, so what is more important is whether the play is good or not, whether you can put in it and interpret the role wholeheartedly. The understanding of this role, can it be expressed again.
Every voice actor has his way, not to say that all the characters can be taken down, or it is all-consuming.
Teacher Xia Lei
In the vast world, not everyone can find the coordinates that truly correspond to their physical causes.
There is no shortage of sad misalignment in this imperfect world - perhaps the person who has the dream of a painter in his heart becomes a civil servant from nine to five, perhaps a person who wants to travel the world is trapped in a nameless town and spends his life in silence...
Through their full knowledge of the world and themselves, there are always very few people who have the courage to make choices that suit them.
However, there are also such people who can live in the world, diligently pursue, and even reach the top of the industry.
The key is whether you have a comprehensive understanding and profound assessment of your talents, and at the same time, whether you can understand the nature, needs and trends of your industry.
It's not easy, but it can be achieved through continuous learning.
3. Professional: Strive for excellence and pursue the ultimate
Voice actor Zhao Lu Teacher
It may be said that you have a good foundation of basic skills that will allow you to eat (dubbing) this meal, but if you really want to achieve a certain level of achievement and height, you have to have excellent details.
No matter how bad you feel you deserve it, be sure to go and listen.
You listen to it before you know what's wrong with you. Even if you don't know that you're bad, you can know good and bad, you know to be able to distinguish, it's a good thing. So I still keep encouraging them (students) to go (back) and listen more.
A good voice actor should be able to quickly enter the role and devote himself to the emotional feelings of each character. At the same time, it can be extracted from the role.
Part of Zhao Lu's dubbing work
Voice actors speak by their work.
Through the resume of a good voice actor, it is often possible to find many extremely successful characters. The span between these characters is often breathtaking!
Many people would never have imagined that Harry Potter, Snow Treasure in Frozen, Harry Osborne in Spider-Man and Sheriff Black Cat... And many high-quality characters dubbed by the same person - Wu Lei.
Similarly, it is difficult for you to think of Wei Wujie in "Strange Adventure in the Wind", Han Yufei in "Love Through the Millennium", Dongfang Yuqing in "Flowers and Bones", Ding Yin in "Shushan Battle Chronicles", Qi Zhikan in "Assassin Biography"... They are all characters voiced by Teacher Zhao Lu.
That's why there is the sentence, "Voice actors are monsters."
Teacher Zhao Lu's sentence in the program, "You have to have outstanding details" is amazing!
Details are so important! The devil is in the details.
In dubbing, in the face of the same line, different actors' understanding of the character and background, the degree of understanding and reaction to the lines, as well as the breath, mood, expression, mouth shape, tone, volume, and even the action and force parts of the dubbing, and even the speed of entering the role and situation, sometimes even if it is only a slight difference, may bring diametrically unacceptable feelings to the listener.
This high degree of awareness of being able to "see" the subtleties, this state of work with ease, all stems from a long-term state of excellence and the pursuit of the ultimate, and from a long-term accumulation of a large number.
Because of love, there is the motivation to continue to explore deeply and the strength to face difficulties when facing difficulties.
A good voice actor is like using the voice to make a pot of wine in his own life, and as time goes on, it becomes more and more fragrant.
The dubbing show "I Am a Special Voice" was performed at the scene
Art is interconnected, and even with the thinking of touching the bypass, these principles originating from the dubbing industry are radiated to any field of learning and in-depth learning, which is all the same.
I believe that these experiences are not only instructive for actors in the dubbing industry, but also for those who want to make a difference in their respective industries.
(To be continued)