Senior Presentation Reflection

(1) Positive Statement
I was proud that I had an engaging powerpoint and presentation. I was worried that people weren't going to pay attention, but everyone did what they were told and understood what was being asked.

(2) Questions to Consider
a. What assessment would you give yourself on your 2-Hour Presentation (self-assessment)?
P+
b. What assessment would you give yourself on your overall senior project (self-assessment)?
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(3) What worked for you in your senior project?
What worked for me was the research. I know that if I was working on this by myself I wouldn't have known where to go and how to do things. I also wouldn't have been thinking logically; like how vocal health is important to keep up. I would have gone all my life straining and ruining my voice if I did not go and search it up.

(4) (What didn't work) If you had a time machine, what would have you done differently to improve your senior project if you could go back in time?
Find a better mentorship. It was embarrassing that when someone asked me where I was mentoring at and I had to tell them that I was mentoring at a drama program instead of doing actual voice acting.

(5) Finding Value
As mentioned before, knowing vocal health has helped me know that I shoul be aware of what to do to avoid hurting my voice. The reasearch that I have found all together has helped me better my understanding on how I can go about my pursuing in Voice Acting.

Blog 25: Mentorship

    Literal
·     Log
·    Ms. Roman (erk... gotta find the number!)
    Interpretive
     I learned mostly on annunciation and pronunciation. When it came to helping other people practice their lines, I was very important on making your voice clear so that they could understand what was being said (especially since it was a Shakespearian play) so having a clear, understandable voice and tone is very good to practice on a daily basis. Especially for voice over since it's 100% voice and there's no pretty face to make up for the awful sound.
   Applied
     When I was watching people act, it was clear that some of the actors didn't really fit the characters they were playing It sorta dud make the performance lack that natural flow and some some of the actors even seemed like they had trouble getting comfortable with their lines and how they were saying it. It just didn't seem right so it helped support my answer on 'knowing your character types.'

Exit Interview

(1) What is your essential question?  What is the best answer to your question and why?

What is most important to consider when developing the voice of an animated character?

Knowing your character types. It kind of goes hand in hand with knowing your vocal limits because there are some roles that are difficult to do. Such as, I found that I cannot play clumsy, young female characters, but I can play more of a tomboy-esue kind of role.

(2) What process did you take to arrive at this answer?

In the beginning, my EQ was 'What is the best way to prepare for Voice Acting,' until I was slapped in the face by the realization that the senior project had to be much more minimal than that. Since it was voice acting and not voice over, I decided to focus more on the animation characters and the life that is put into it when making them. So before when it was about training and vocal exercises, it turned out to be more on trying to find the best character that suited you and vocal types. I found out that knowing your voice is always the first step. You gotta walk before you can run, right? Also on making personal connections is helpful because it allows you to piee together you and the character and can make the feeling much more realistic. My best answer was knowing your character types because I heard that you don't truly know what you can do until you know the different types of characters and how your voice fits them.

(3) What problems did you face?  How did you resolve them?

I had problems finding mentorship. Bang Zoom Entertainment didn't take in my resume for an internship there and I didn't really know where to go. Eventually, by December, I was able to help out in the drama program at Bassett High School. Another one was interviews. I didn't know who to interview or how to  contact them. Especially by the 4th one, and it was barely cutting it short. I resolved that by my sister, Jessie, since she knew a guy who was voice actor and that helped a lot.

(4) What are the two most significant sources you used to answer your essential question and why?

Crispin Freeman's Character Types and Pat Farely's Knowing Your Own Voice. You need to know the basics and get used to hearing yourself. And knowing what types of characters are out there. There are more than just the 'boy/girl' characters, there are like sub levels that you need to pay attention to. You need to know what they are and what makes them that character and then trying to find the voice that best suits it. For example, Freeman is known for playing older, protective brothers, and because he leads that kind of voice, is why he is able to get the job for those characters.

(5) What is your product and why?

Finding out what type of voice I can create. As I stated before, I found that I could play mostly tomboy types of characters . It's important to know what you can play because now I know what characters to look for and I can try my best focusing on those and knowing that I have a higher chance on getting the role rather than not working on a character I know I can't do and then getting disappointed in the end.

Three Column

Awesome Chart!

Independent Component 2

LITERAL
(a)  “I, Deanna Ponce, affirm that I completed my independent component which represents 30 hours of work.”
(b) Getting Used To Your Own Voice. Audio blog post
"Voice Over Experts." Finding and Developing Character Voices. N.p., n.d. Web
(c) Here! 
(d) Voice reel of three different characters.   

INTERPRETIVE 
Here!
Akira
Haruhi
Jim
Character sheet

APPLIED
Part of my answer is to know your limits and to get used to your voice. Once you know your voice you can find out what kind of characters you can voice. Knowing my voice, I found that doing the voice for Jim Hopkins was a bit of a challenge, as well as putting my pitch higher for Akira. Haruhi was a bit easy, although it was a bit difficult since I changed the character until the last minute so doing her voice while I was a little sick kind of weakened my ability for her.

Independent Component Update!

Hey there! Since we're getting close to the date (like literally it's the day after tomorrow), I decided that I should have posted these a long time ago!

Anyways, here are some clips. Like my beginning clips. c:

Curtain call! It was months of hard work and sweat and tears, but this was it!

I'm really proud of you guys, Bassett!! One of the best performances so far!

Obligatory Doctor Who reference post.

How they were able to fir the Doctor in the show is beyond me. The power of the theatre.

The performance started! It was hectic, but it everyonek new it was gonna be great.

They put on Twelfth Night: Or What You Will.

The one the purple dress is their own Viola.

For my mentorship I was asked to help out selling grams for the actors! As well as concessions!

This was before the show and those are the grams!

Blog 17

1. What is most important to consider when coming up with a voice for an animated character?
2. What made you decide on taking on all so many roles for one series? 
1. What is the most roles you have taken on during one series?
3. Did you ever find it hard to come up with so many voices? 
1. What was your hardest voice to come up with?
4. Are there any characters that you found yourself the closest to?
1. What character would you feel the closest to?
5. How many characters do you audition for for one series?
6. Do you normally get the characters you audition for? 
1. Any characters you were disappointed you didn't get? Who?
7. Were there any characters that were just thrown on you?
1. How often has that happened?
8. What is the easiest/fastest way on finding any voice acting job?
9. Any characters you've enjoyed voicing?
1. What made you enjoy voicing them?
2. What made them stick out to you?
10. If you had a chance to pick a character to voice, who would it be?
1. How would you make the character different (if they had a different voice actor)?
11. What is one tip you could give people to help them build their character?
1. What were some tips that were given to you that you have never forgotten?

Blog 20

Even more awesome here!

Blog 19

1. Effective User of technology is the ESLER I feel as if I'm mastering throughout the project/
2. Using my resources to create the voice and putting it together, whether it be a clip or an audio piece, is important to know and how to work with what you got is important. If you didn't moster all of this, then you can't really excel well at what you're doing.
3.  My first Independent Component can show proof of that.

Independent Component 2 Plan Approval

(1) I plan on making a voice reel for two or three characters. The three characters(the type of characters will be posted soon. (: ) I plan on working on developing them on a starter line from the first time attempting their voice until they're perfected on their final line.
(2) Taking time to develop and form three characters are kind of hard. I'm going to try to form three different characters that contrast each other. It gives me more time to try to form separate characters and spend time with each of them to make them better within each time they're looked at.
(3) My EQ is about how to develop a character voice and you can't really develop a voice if you don't actually try to develop it. I think that this independent component will help me better answer my EQ because I'm trying to find the answer by going through some of the steps that I have found  in my research.

Blog 18

1. What is your essential question? What is most important to consider when developing the voice of an animated character?
2. What is your third answer to your essential question? The most important thing to consider when developing a voice for an animated character is making personal connections.
3. What are three details to support or justify your third answer? Makes the character realistic. It also helps you connect with the character and helps makes the character easier to connect to other people so they stick out.
4. What source helped you prove this answer is justified for your essential question?  The podcasts at Voice Over Experts (podcast 139)
5. What do you plan to study next and why? The podcasts at Voice Over Experts give a lot of advice and teaches how to make acharacter more realistic and how to make personal connections and also purchase a few other books!

2-Hour Meeting Answer #2

1.  What is most important to consider when developing a voice for an animated character?
2.  What's most important to consider when developing a voice for an animated character is to have multiple vocal tones
3.  You gain more jobs and become a lot more recognized. You'll also have a lot more demo tapes to give out and land better job opportunities.
4.  Art of Voice Acting, Pat Fraley, Adventures In Voice Acting.
5.  I plan to continue my study for answer 2 by finding out how to form different pitches and how to properly use your voice.

Blog 14: Independent Component 1

LITERAL

(a)  “I, Deanna Ponce, affirm that I completed my independent component which represents 30 hours of work."

(b) I worked with Dean Nolan for this fandub! 

(c) Here it is!

(d)    

INTERPRETIVE 

As shown in a post made earlier, I had to type out the script after searching for various scenes that seemed fun to work with, but simple enough to get the job done.  

APPLIED

It helped me understand how to use your voice and how effective it can be when trying to deliver a line and give it your best without being on the screen. It can show you how you can become best friends with your mouth and trying to see what characters are easy enough to perform and what types of characters you can play. (obviously, this taught me that voicing a high-pitch character wasn't exactly my cup of tea.)

30 Minute

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Hiya! Just posting a current update from working on my fandub.

It's a collaboration with Dean, so after getting in his lines, I started working!

I don't really know to really update this, so I'm going to post screecaps from my computer.

Like I said before, right after I got Dean's lines in, I hopped on to begin chopping away his lines.

See? There are his lines!

And now they're chopped because I like the organization!

After getting that all out of the way, I have started editing in his lines! All there is left is to edit in mine and add in the music!

Third Interview Questions

1. What is the most effective way to prepare for voice acting?
2. What would you suggest how long it would it would take to prepare for such a career? Why?
3. What makes a difference from one who had three years than one who just started?
4. What certain traits would make a good voice actor?
5. Do you think that there are certain vocal ranges that are favored in the voice acting world that you've witnessed so far?
6. Is there any 'easy' way to get a steady jump into the career?
7. On an estimate, how much would one pay in the beginning of their career?
8. As you go, does the price go up or down?
9. Would you recommend this career as a full time job?
10. Are there any specific qualities you can come up that defines voice acting?