Chapter 245 - Voice Acting Exerpts (1/2)

Bai Zhi was aware of Meng Fan’s voice clips from his stream and had seen the videos as well. Although he often fooled around, she could tell Meng Fan was a very skilled player in the voice acting realm. He was able to manage all aspects of a wide array of character types.

After seeing the voice clips the crew had assigned to Meng Fan and seeing Meng Fan’s blank expression, Bai Zhi questioned: “These are a bit too easy, no?”

“They’re okay, I’m just not sure which segment to choose.”

It was simple, but Meng Fan wouldn’t deliberately select a difficult one either. As a newcomer to the voice acting industry, and as a person who has already done 150 or so smaller roles, Meng Fan was not a picky dubber. Even if it was a simple clip, he was confident he could make it shine.

“You can’t decide? Is there any that you really want to dub?” Bai Zhi asked.

“Not really, I’ve already dubbed everything I want to during my streams.” Meng Fan responded.

Bai Zhi rolled her eyes. “You’re such a jester.”

“I’m actually very Buddha-like, okay.” Meng Fan smiled.

“That’s the most difficult trope to deal with.”

Bai Zhi rolled her eyes again before going into thought. Smiling, she waved a staff member over. “There must be more clips in your library, right? Don’t worry about how many characters there are or what genre it is. The difficulty also doesn’t matter either.”

“There are. Give me a minute.” The staff member assumed Bai Zhi was dissatisfied with her compilation of voice clips and hurriedly came over with their newfound clips.

Bai Zhi browsed through the options, circling lines as she spoke. “Either way you can’t choose, so I’ll pick one for you.” After circling it, she handed the paper to Meng Fan and smiled. “I’ve already informed the crew to check out your voice acting clips before selecting scenes. It seems they still don’t understand your abilities, or at least have a grasp of your specialties. They didn’t even prepare you a female script!”

“I only play around with female voices on stream. I think I’ll pass on doing it on the show.” Meng Fan received the list.

Bai Zhi smiled. “What, are you worried that a female voice will ruin your fierce Iron Hero namesake?”

“Oh, I’m not worried about that.”

Meng Fan looked at the lines that Bai Zhi had circled, his expression downcast. “Sis, are you looking for a little sister?”

They were all male and female dialogues; mature ones include some fighting exchange scenes like the famous cold, heartless, and unreasonable arguments from “Princess Returning Pearl”. There was also an argument scene with Bai and desk manager Tong. Didn’t this also require him to switch between genders?

Bai Zhi smiled. “Don’t mess around. I want both little sisters and brothers.”

Meng Fan looked at the ones that hadn’t been circled and found a few that he wanted to dub. They were not easy either. After circling a few, he then fell into a quandary so he handed it back to Bai Zhi: “I circled a few more, too. Help me pick two.”

Bai Zhi took the paper and looked. He had circled a Zhuge Liang monologue from the 1994 version of “Romance of Three Kingdoms,” the last scene by Bai Yingyu or Uncle Three from “Da Zhai Men,” the dinner scene from “The Message,” the banquet scene from “Let the Bullets Fly,” the first meeting scene from “In the Name of the People,” and the eighth emperor’s coronation scene from “Yong Zheng Dynasty”…

“Do you want to dub one of these roles, or… all of them!” Bai Zhi was shocked. It was already very difficult for an individual to reenact a group scene, and even more so for all of these classic group scenes. If there was a ranking system, these scenes would be among Huaxia’s top 10 group dialogues!

“I’ve never tried dubbing any of these scenes on stream, and haven’t even thought about some of them. I feel like they will be challenging enough.” Meng Fan said. “Uhm, is this too arrogant?”