VO-BB - 19 YEARS OLD!

[Jeffrey Kafer]

I swear, I'm not trying to pimp the game I've been working on, but if you're interested in some short interviews with the actors in Mass Effect, Seth Green, Lance Henriksen, Marina Sirtis, and Keith David, then there are some videos online at http://www.gamersyde.com/news_5348_en.html

Some interesting stuff, though I wish they were longer. Also a video of outtakes by Seth Green. They aren't really outtakes as much as him screwing around in the studio.
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[Deirdre]

[Philip Banks]

A few years ago I worked with Marina Sirtis on an episode of Casualty a BBC drama series set in a hospital accident and emergency department.
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000642/#actress2000 entry 18

Apologies for:-
British reference
Nothing to do with voice over work
No computer games connection

[glittlefield]

yes, pimp away, Jeff! It looks like a great project.
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[Lizden]

Here's a question from someone who has learned more about gaming in the past year while here on the VO-BB than in the past 15 years!

OK...from everying I've read about games & VO, gamers prefer, or should I say Directors seem to prefer a "Mid-Atlantic" accent basically what we on this side of the pond call "British"...but then I also hear that they prefer an "American" delivery..and it seemed to me that Marina Sirtis with a great voice and a British lilt, seemed to somehow flatten her "accent" and almost sound more "American"...now granted from her time on TNG she's well known...but I was wondering whether the consensus among Directors is changing....

Great videos BTW Jeff!

L.
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[Jeffrey Kafer]

There's no real consensus, Liz. It depends on the character and the project. It also depends on the distribution. It's kind of like asking if directors prefer mid-atlantic accents for movies. I know Mass Effect has all manner of accents and dialects.

Pat Fraley said a curious thing on his Accents podcast for the Voices.com Experts series. If I'm remembering correctly, he said that people in English-speaking foreign countries prefer the accents in their own dialect. This was most curious to me since I don't know of a single game that does this. And I've been making video games for 9 years.

instead, video games are Localized (translated) by language. So the Spanish version of a game will use the same VO for Spain as it does for Mexico. The English version of Mass Effect will sound the same in Britain, Australia, US, and Canada. Given the extraodinary expense of fully localized VO, I see no cost effectiveness in recording different accents for different regions of the same language.
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[bobsouer]

Jeffrey,

Pat said they prefer it that way. It doesn't mean they always get them that way.
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[Lizden]

Thanks!

L.
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[Yoda117]

being the type that I am, I can't help but point out the reflection when they were filming Seth Green (the second of the three clips actually). It's the only one I looked at really, but seeing the reflection of the guy in the control room playing solitaire in the middle of the interview was just hillarious.

I'm weird like that
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