Last year, one of the subjects I studied was an introduction to the principle of sound and sound design. The final assessment required us to take a video clip, remove the existing soundtrack and replace it with a new one.
I chose to do an episode of the old Captain Kremmen cartoon. Kremmen (along with many others) was the brainchild of Kenny Everett, a British comedian who had a tv show in the late 70's and early 80's. You could never call it a kids show, but the 70's being a much simpler time, it was on at a kid friendly time. The cartoon was shown during the tv show, and all the characters were voiced by Everett himself. The animation was done simply, and it turns out it was done by Cosgrove-Hall, who went on to make Dangermouse among other things.
So, after choosing an episode, listening to it over and over in order to scribe out the script, I spent a day in the recording booth at Uni laying down the tracks for each character, and like the original, I did all the character voices. Then it was off to edit it all together and put in the appropriate sound effects. I had some previous experience with voice overs and and vocal work previously, so I have no doubt that helped, but this was one of the hardest things I've done, as trying to match up the vocal to the animation was really hard.
The clip is only a couple of minutes long, so enjoy. And if anyone is looking for a VO guy, I am available.
