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Post by Teleram on Oct 30, 2016 16:37:47 GMT -5
Are the audiobooks by Liam Aiken worth listening to?
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Post by Reba on Oct 30, 2016 17:00:36 GMT -5
no
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Post by Eponine on Oct 30, 2016 20:28:06 GMT -5
I think so... that's how my mom listened to them
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Post by Poe's Coats Host Toast on Nov 1, 2016 8:43:43 GMT -5
Liam Aiken sucks. Ya hear me, Liam??
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Post by Dante on Nov 1, 2016 12:02:02 GMT -5
It might be time for people to start providing a little more substance to their responses.
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Post by Poe's Coats Host Toast on Nov 1, 2016 17:54:54 GMT -5
You wouldn't want to fall victim to substance abuse, though. Better play it safe.
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Post by lorelai on Nov 2, 2016 0:26:20 GMT -5
I listen to File Under... and the fourth book because it took a bit for those to be released in braille. I was surprised at how much I liked Liam's narration, and even caught a few moments where he imitated both Daniel Handler and Tim Curry's inflections/cadences, which I thought was a nice touch. FU13 is narrated by 13 different people (or "13 suspicious and talented people" as the book first put it). They're authors and interviewers Handler likes/is friends with, and hearing everyone's different take is fun, though, like anyone, I prefer some chapter narrators to others. I say give them a go!
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Post by thathoboravioli on Mar 27, 2017 21:16:57 GMT -5
I still haven't heard the audiobooks, but it does seem like either everyone hates Liam Aiken or think his acting's gotten better.
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Post by lorelai on May 16, 2017 15:21:46 GMT -5
I stand by my prior post, but (to me at least) acting and narrating are two different skills. There are actors I love, who have done narrations I hate and vice versa.
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Post by Reba on May 16, 2017 15:33:29 GMT -5
can you give an example? i think they are the same skill.
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Post by Poe's Coats Host Toast on May 16, 2017 16:45:22 GMT -5
You don't have to have an interesting sounding voice to be a good actor; in narration you do, imo. This, of course, is mostly dependent on the voice you were born with.
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Post by lorelai on May 16, 2017 17:51:19 GMT -5
can you give an example? i think they are the same skill. In narration, you have to do something to differentiate between characters, whether it's doing different inflections for every character, switching the pitch of your voice , or doing a voice that sounds utterly or slightly different from your own. You also have to make exposition that's outside of dialogue sound engaging. An actor rarely has to play or voice more than one character, and if they do have to play one, their change in body language, costumes and makeup help solidify the change for an audience; voicing another character may be trickier, but rarely in acting do you have a man voicing a woman after already voicing a man, and if you do, they're usually doing it for slightly comic reasons (you also have examples like Edna Mode in The Incredibles'-a female character voiced by a man, but he didn't have to wear more than one hat, so to speak; or how the voice actress for Mulan had to do a boy voice, but it had to be "Mulan passibly playing at being a boy" rather than her legitimately having to act as two characters). Als'o, nonverbal exposition for actors is literally conveyed nonverbally, and they don't have to switch from doing an action to playing a character--their actions are always part of that character--a narrator may have to convey the actions or thoughts one character, then speak in the voice of someone who isn't part of the exposition. I hope that was helpful and not too rambling!!!
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Post by A comet crashing into Earth on May 17, 2017 8:20:07 GMT -5
you also have examples like Edna Mode in The Incredibles'-a female character voiced by a man Oh, I didn't know that was Brad Bird himself! I've only seen it in English once, I think (can that really be true?), so I didn't even realise that it was a man.
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