Small doubt on suit actors and acting.

[Tom Constantine]

Yup, the suit actors speak the lines and then ADR replaces it afterwards. It helps act the scene and get the timing correct. They don't really act per se, they just say the lines.

 

[kuroihikari]

Yup, the suit actors speak the lines and then ADR replaces it afterwards. It helps act the scene and get the timing correct. They don't really act per se, they just say the lines.

Well, that's pretty interesting.

So in this case I wonder if say, Hachisuka anticipates Tomatsu's distinctive voicing style, or did Tomatsu adjust to Hachisuka's? Or does someone plan it out beforehand with both of them?

 

[Hell Kaiser Andy]

Well ADR seems to be the last thing, at least when it comes to movies so I'd think the script would put how it should be pronounced so there's some leeway for both.

 

[Guardian07]

In one of the Suit Actor Talk segment in Fourze Net Movie, Ryo Hoshizawa (Ryusei's actor) talk about Eitoku (Meteor' suit actor) talking nonsense in the scene where Meteor talking in-suit. :laugh:

Yeah, he talked about how intense and over-the-top Eitoku did the lines, and putting so much "feeling" into it. In the "Takaiwa Seiji is so awesome" episode, Hitomi Sanae remarked on how good Takaiwa's delivery on a line Fourze has while in suit(he wasn't wearing the helmet since it was a practice shot).

So in this case I wonder if say, Hachisuka anticipates Tomatsu's distinctive voicing style, or did Tomatsu adjust to Hachisuka's? Or does someone plan it out beforehand with both of them?

Apparently Virgo's suit actor had met with Tanaka Rie(Virgo's voice actor) time to time to talk about the delivery of the character and even attended the recording sessions for Virgo's lines. So yeah, it would seem prior planning between the actors comes into the execution of the characters(directors and producers also played into it, as Takaiwa mentioned).

 

[Glamador]

Apparently Virgo's suit actor had met with Tanaka Rie(Virgo's voice actor) time to time to talk about the delivery of the character and even attended the recording sessions for Virgo's lines. So yeah, it would seem prior planning between the actors comes into the execution of the characters(directors and producers also played into it, as Takaiwa mentioned).

Both Scorpio and Virgo's suit actors (actor?) did a good job making them appear female and male respectively. They hid it more early on, but as it got closer to the reveal of their identities it felt like they acted more like the opposite gender with their movements.

Big respect there.

 

[Pikawil]

Also for reference, the Transformers movies hire one actor to be on set out of shot reading the robots' lines so that the actors have something to bounce off. I know Doctor Who does the same for monsters like the Cybermen or Daleks. So I even if the suit actors don't say their lines, there could still be someone on set reading them aloud.

Doctor Who goes farther than that for aliens voiced by Nick Briggs: they don't get some joe to read out his lines so that the actors can bounce out of them and he can fill them in ADR later, he actually does the voice acting live on the set with his ring modulator, minimizing his ADR (and pretty much has to do it live for the Daleks, as the Dalek props' head lightbulbs will sync to only his voice, as the filming staff of Asylum of the Daleks learned the hard way!).

 

[Toku Prime]

Doctor Who goes farther than that for aliens voiced by Nick Briggs: they don't get some joe to read out his lines so that the actors can bounce out of them and he can fill them in ADR later, he actually does the voice acting live on the set with his ring modulator, minimizing his ADR (and pretty much has to do it live for the Daleks, as the Dalek props' head lightbulbs will sync to only his voice, as the filming staff of Asylum of the Daleks learned the hard way!).

I know, but Doctor Who wasn't the focus of the conversation and it didn't seem worth doubling the length of my post to explain it :sweat: Nick Briggs even takes his ring modulator to the read-throughs so he can do it in the appropriately Dalek-y voice.