Chapter two hundred and fourteen voice actors
This is indeed the first time Zhao Chen has come to his voice actor firm. He has always been staying in an apartment or office and has never been there at all.
Voice actors are the names of voice actors by islanders. In the traditional sense, their activities range from foreign language films, animations and video games to dub their voice work, which are basically hidden behind the scenes.
Each voice actor has his/her firm, and most of the dubbing work is contacted by the firm. Of course, there are also free voice actors, but they are quite rare and difficult to find a job. In island countries, voice actors' firms are not static. Like all companies, there are also job-changing situations.
Before entering the firm to engage in dubbing, voice actors usually study in the voice actor development institute (i.e., voice actor schools). Some people directly pass the exam before studying, and some have become free voice actors before entering the firm. They often join in the firm by owning their own works and becoming voice actors after becoming voice actors through the recruitment advertisements of character auditions in anime magazines.
After the study period of the voice actor training institute expires, since most voice actor training institutes are linked to the firm, excellent graduates can directly enter the firm, and the firm will contact the animation production company instead of themselves. Some good training institutions will recommend students to auditions for each company and enter the ranks of voice actors in advance.
Of course, there are exceptions. For example, a cartoonist who is about to adapt his comics into an animation can also designate a voice actor, regardless of whether he is a regular voice actor. However, this requires the consent of an animation production company. Otherwise, if the quality of the animation is reduced due to the voice actor, it can be said that the gain is not worth the loss.
The emergence of professional animation voice actors is roughly in terms of time, in 1970 and the following ten years. For example, "Lupin III", "Space Battleship Yamato", and "Mobile Suit Gundam". Compared with earlier works, the plot is more attractive, and some musical elements are added, and the character's voice characteristics have been significantly improved.
Especially in the 1980s, it was a period when animation music and voice actors made a qualitative leap. According to history, "The Fortress of the Time and Space" in 1982 was originally a turning point. Unfortunately, due to the arrival of Zhao Chen, he spent a lot of money to establish a professional voice actor training institute and voice actor firm, the animation produced by its StudioDEEN animation club was equipped with professional voice actors, thus replacing "The Fortress of the Time and Space" as a turning point for voice actors, and the profession of voice actors has gradually become well-known.
Of course, professional voice actors are just talking about it in this era. After all, the current voice actors are still developing rapidly. Zhao Chen’s voice actor training institute and office have only studied for less than two years at most. How professional can they be? However, compared with other voice actor firms and training institutes, they are undoubtedly superior. After all, Zhao Chen brought professional practice methods for voice actors in the future.
The training courses of the voice actor development institute under Zhao Chen are quite complex and can be described as diverse. In addition to learning to recite scripts, practicing lung capacity and doing voice change exercises, there are also practices of shouting and laughing loudly. There are even practices of bamboo swords to train the instantaneous explosive power of sound. In addition, it is to pursue a sense of substitution, bring your roles like an actor, feel the joy, anger, sorrow, and happiness of the characters, and thus express it. It can be said that from all aspects, Zhao Chen's voice actor office is currently the most advanced training method in the island country.
In addition, because the previous animation production companies did not attach much importance to voice actors, Zhao Chen took advantage of the loopholes. With his huge fame, exciting plots and more professional voice actors, the animation ratings produced by StudioDEEN animation club reached a peak. No matter which animation it is, it has a higher rating than in history.
This shows the importance of voice actors. In the future animation industry, animation, music and voice actors have formed a trend of three-way division in the world.
In particular, voice actors have come to the front of the screen and are increasingly popular with fans, and their scope is also becoming wider and wider, making voice actors a new form of idols in the entertainment industry, officially announcing the arrival of the "Idol Voice Actor Era".
Of course, no matter which period, the popularity of female voice actors is far higher than that of male voice actors, which is not unrelated to the popularity of beautiful girl animations in later generations. On the other hand, it can also be said that the proportion of perverts in the island country is very high!
If the idolization of the voice actor's image is really achieved, it will attract a large number of young men and women to volunteer to become voice actors, and voice actor development centers or related majors in various places will also sprout like mushrooms after a rain.
Of course, although 1982 was a period of rapid development for voice actors, it was just the beginning, but the initiator was still Zhao Chen.
As the animations under StudioDEEN animation club gained high ratings, other animation production companies began to realize the importance of voice actors. However, understanding is one thing, and how to make decisions is another. However, most animation production companies are short-sighted now and have not seen the bright future of voice actors. How can they use a lot of money and time to cultivate voice actors? Basically, they are the same as before, and at most they only spend money to hire from voice actors. Some even publish advertisements in magazines to recruit candidates for voice actors who are making cartoons. Of course, this type is naturally non-professional.
Since it is now in 1982, it was the peak period for voice actors to emerge with the animation trend. At this time, a large number of animations emerged. Since the mainstream was the relationship between boy comics, there were beautiful young characters everywhere for a while, and the voice actors who dubbed the beautiful young naturally became the target of popularity. No matter how the voice actor looks, as long as the animation characters he matched were handsome and beautiful, they would be popular.
But no matter what, in short, Zhao Chen’s voice actor training institute and firm are currently the most professional and largest in the island country! It can be regarded as a slap in the face by an islander.
Zhao Chen really knows the importance of voice actors in the future. Both animations and voice actors themselves can bring considerable benefits. It is because Zhao Chen spared no effort to spend a lot of money to establish them.
It can be said that the voice actor training institute and firm are still in a "lose" state. Zhao Chen has invested too much money, and his current income is disproportionate to the investment. In fact, if Zhao Chen does not continue to vote, the voice actor training institute and firm will bring him income, but it is still relatively limited.
Along with Zhao Chen, the chairman of StudioDEEN, was also accompanied by StudioDEEN. Hasegawa Yo nodded and bowed, following Zhao Chen, and first entered the voice actor office.
In fact, there is nothing good about voice actors. After all, the firm is the place and institution that handles affairs. Most of them are companies established by accepting commissions from others. Only some staff are taking care of, and it seems that they don’t see many people.
The current chairman of the firm was also promoted by Zhao Chen, named Futo Mito, who is a relatively wealthy middle-aged man.
The reason why Zhao Chen promoted Mito Tomoto was mainly because he had strong social skills and had special connections in many animation production companies and film and television companies. It is precisely because of this that after Mito Tomoto became the chairman, the business of the voice actor firm was actually quite good, at least much better than other voice actor firms.
"President, please, here is the posting of all the voice actors in our firm. They have different specialties!"
This is the hall of the firm. There are many photos and introductions of voice actors posted on one wall of the hall. As long as other animation production companies or film and television companies can hire voice actors here, of course, this also depends on the reputation of the voice actors to determine the price.
Zhao Chen looked carefully and knew some of them, such as Higashiko who dubbed the heroine Asakura Nan of "Baseball Heroes", and Toda Keiko who dubbed Matilda in "Mobile Suit Gundam" and "The Three Sisters of Cat Eyes". However, most voice actors are not well-known yet, and it is really because this voice actor firm was opened a little late.
Chapter completed!