0706 – Staccato Chickens and Hissing Snakes

2022.12.07 – 0706 – Staccato Chickens and Hissing Snakes

Then read your lines with these attributes, threading the ‘animal sounds’ into human speech: words are perhaps growled (as a ferocious dog might) or in a bright and happy ‘puppy-dog’ style. Similarly, you can probably imagine how a cat may say ‘hello’ (with a ‘miaow’ in the voice), or how a chicken may talk (perhaps thinking of their head-bobbing, pecking style, so their voice may be quite staccato). A snake character may talk slowly with accentuated and sibilant s-sounds. A bear may sound deep and loud.

You may have a problem making sounds for animals that make no sounds, or whose sounds are not really known: how would you imitate a badger, a terrapin, or a specific bird such as a magpie, say?

Don’t forget that your character, say the monkey, may also go through other emotions during a story or script, so think how your usually excitable monkey may also sound, say, sad or thoughtful.

Your personal characteristics will include being able to work well with other members of the cast, who will be voicing other animals. You may also be asked to provide voices for more than one of the characters, say Enid the Elephant and Maurice the Mouse, to save time and money. Remember the crew of the Simpsons voice more than one of the characters in that show. [1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dan_Castellaneta

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