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Good advice on characters' voices
Some great advice from our buddy Sam Stareagle on writing in character:
I read that in a great book on screenwriting that you can never go too far in trying to get inside the characters heads. Trying to talk like them is a really fun way to do that.
For instance...
Adama has sort of a hushed growl to his voice. He almost never raises it, and he almost never has to.
Kara's wonderfully bouncy, but also sarcastic. She sounds like she's thinking out loud half of the time.
Lee's always trying to control himself, so he has the same sort of hushed tone as his dad, but more often than not an impatient desperate quality to it. Angry Lee is ALWAYS fun to do. It's a sort of "I'm gonna' kick your azz, but I'm not gonna' make a big deal about it" quality.
Tigh sounds like a man who's seen way too much in his life to give a FRAK anymore about what anybody else thinks.
Roslin has an air of classic refinement to it, but that doesn't mean that she can't break out into a laugh at times.
Dee's just polite. And quiet. ALL the time. It's sort of an angry glare hidden by a smile.
And because she's got my favorite distinctive voice, I've gotta mention Racetrack... She always sounds like a ticked off surfer chick to me.
[Original skiffy post here]
I read that in a great book on screenwriting that you can never go too far in trying to get inside the characters heads. Trying to talk like them is a really fun way to do that.
For instance...
Adama has sort of a hushed growl to his voice. He almost never raises it, and he almost never has to.
Kara's wonderfully bouncy, but also sarcastic. She sounds like she's thinking out loud half of the time.
Lee's always trying to control himself, so he has the same sort of hushed tone as his dad, but more often than not an impatient desperate quality to it. Angry Lee is ALWAYS fun to do. It's a sort of "I'm gonna' kick your azz, but I'm not gonna' make a big deal about it" quality.
Tigh sounds like a man who's seen way too much in his life to give a FRAK anymore about what anybody else thinks.
Roslin has an air of classic refinement to it, but that doesn't mean that she can't break out into a laugh at times.
Dee's just polite. And quiet. ALL the time. It's sort of an angry glare hidden by a smile.
And because she's got my favorite distinctive voice, I've gotta mention Racetrack... She always sounds like a ticked off surfer chick to me.
[Original skiffy post here]