From White Box To Supervision

Chapter 41: Voice Actor Dubbing

On the same day, the sound and picture synthesis was successfully completed. This is a very happy look. Only the last v-edit was left, and the third chapter was successfully completed.

The animation of this process has been basically completed. The remaining V series is to compose the produced video and audio, and press it into a format for TV broadcast. It is also the last process of animation production. Here is already one episode. Qualified animation too.

In District 11, when it was in the video tape era, the finished product was sent to the TV station, and it was always packed in a white box, which is also the origin of the name ‘white box’.

It’s just that the times have changed, and video tapes are rarely used, but the name White Box is still used.

However, because of the delay in the previous period, the time was even more tense than before.

When Musashino specified the production time, he set the goal that each episode should be broadcast two weeks before the TV broadcast. The second episode was a week earlier, and the third episode was estimated to be at most three days ago. , which does not match the time on the production watch.

Don’t think that it’s all right after the production is finished. The TV station still needs to review and test the film. If it gets stuck just before the TV broadcast, it will be very troublesome to call the TV station.

“Mr. Beichuan, the supervisor has left the setting draft here, you can quickly drive it to him.” Mr. Honda Feng hurriedly found Zhang Beichuan.

“Where did the supervision go?”

“He’s going to supervise the dubbing scene of episode 9. You should hurry up and take this over to the recording studio.”

“OK, leave it to me.”

Zhang Beichuan drove to the recording studio immediately. He had been here once before, so he knew the way here.

Going inside, it didn’t seem like it had started yet. Zhang Beichuan saw the supervisor who was squatting in the corner and drawing a storyboard.

“Supervisor, why did you draw a storyboard here? Don’t you also supervise the dubbing?”

Mu Xiacheng touched his face and said, “Well… I seem to be here early. Are they preparing inside? I’ll find a time to draw a storyboard.”

“So that’s the case.” Zhang Beichuan saw the supervisor’s storyboard and said in surprise, “Supervisor, are you…the final storyboard of the painting?”

“right.”

“But why did you draw it? I haven’t drawn the final storyboard yet, but I can’t make it at all. You know that the construction period is too tight.”

The identities of the two seemed to be reversed. Although it was inappropriate to do so, Zhang Beichuan couldn’t help complaining.

Zhang Beichuan can already imagine the terrible workload of the construction period explosion.

Mu Xiacheng laughed together: “Aren’t I painting? By the way, what are you doing here?”

“The director asked me to send you the setting draft.”

“oh oh.”

“Bei Chuan-kun, the dubbing will begin soon, do you want to take a look?”

“Uh, is it okay?”

“it does not matter.”

After waiting for a while, all the seiyuu arrived, and the house was ready immediately.

Zhang Beichuan curiously followed behind the supervisor. There were many related equipment in the house, many of which Zhang Beichuan did not know. Zhang Beichuan guessed that these were tuning equipment.

In front, three beautiful women are each holding a thick booklet and are studying. They are the three protagonist voice actors of “EXODUS”.

“Hey? Isn’t this Kitagawa-kun?” A chubby man came over. Even his body was not much different from that of the supervisor. Next to him were Masashi Yamada and Hayabusa Watanabe.

“Hello, Mr. Katsuragi, Mr. Yamada, and Mr. Watanabe.” Zhang Beichuan greeted.

The fat man is Katsuragi Gotaro. The production management of Musashino is similar to that of Honda Feng, but Honda Feng is responsible for the management of production progress and works, while Mr. Katsuragi follows Mr. Watanabe to run business every day. The committee is also the position where the investor communicates.

“Why did you come here?”

“I’m here to supervise the general manager.”

Everyone still wanted to speak, but at this time, the voice of the sound supervisor came over.

“It’s almost time, we can prepare for the dubbing work.”

The sound supervisor came to the seiyuu to give instructions, and after a while, it was finished.

“Ok, ready to start.”

In front, the three voice actors also picked up their AR consoles and went to the microphone.

The AR station is a dubbing script, but in addition to the lines, there will also be text descriptions of the animation characters to facilitate the voice actor dubbing.

“Let’s get started.” Makoto Kinoshita said solemnly.

The dubbing officially started, and the TV screen of the dubbing actor also began to show the demo.

“Ah? No.”

“Liar, lie, tell me it’s not true…”

……

Seeing the demo shown above, Zhang Beichuan twitched the corner of his mouth and whispered to Yamada Masashi next to him, “Mr. Katsuragi, do you just use this dubbing?”

In the recording studio~www.readwn.com~ Zhang Beichuan clearly saw that the demos were sometimes played as original paintings.

“Well, yes.” Yamada Masashi explained: “Generally, other companies will use unfinished samples to dub voice actors, except for the first few episodes, which are dubbed in finished films. We Musashino naturally do the same. Okay, with the original painting, some companies are madly rushing the schedule, rushing to the seiyuu schedule, and they will use the storyboard or sketch to let the seiyuu dub.”

Saying this, Yamada Masashi also shook his head and sighed.

Hearing this, Zhang Beichuan couldn’t help but admire the voice actors who were dubbing their voices and emotions. Zhang Beichuan also thought that the dubbing was only for the finished film.

“The intensity of seiyuu is even greater than that of our animation industry. Because animation lacks talents, it can only be relatively better. However, in terms of seiyuu, if you want to become a seiyuu, you don’t have to worry about it. The poor ones and those with bad luck will be screened out, even because the voice actors have become idolized in recent years, even if they are capable, they should be good-looking and have other talents, otherwise there will be no voice actors to choose.” Yamada Masashi shook his head and said.

Zhang Beichuan didn’t know what to say.

“Stop here!” Kinoshita Shiroichi called out to them.

“Can the voice here be changed?”

“I’ll try.” The voice actress in the middle, Mao Mengaiyi, coughed, and her voice suddenly changed.

“The emotions are getting intense, it wasn’t very good just now… Yes, it’s here.”

…..

Zhang Beichuan still wanted to watch it, but unfortunately Mr. Honda Feng called Zhang Beichuan. As a last resort, Zhang Beichuan had to tell the supervisor and drove away.