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bluejane
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Do you write your practice material?
« Thread Started on Feb 13, 2012, 4:11pm »

So, I'm uber-new and all. I'm toying around with my mic and Audacity, trying to figure out enough of the switches so I can make decent-quality recordings. I find that when I toy around with demo reels, I like to write my own stuff. It doesn't have to be great, it can even be a rip-off, but it has to have something of mine in it.

Does anyone else feel like that? Do you enjoy writing your own dialogue, just for practice?

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Re: Do you write your practice material?
« Reply #1 on Feb 29, 2012, 4:52pm »

I do not enjoy writing. Improvising on what someone else wrote, seems to work better for me. Reading online comics, or magazine articles or these forums is good for practice.

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Re: Do you write your practice material?
« Reply #2 on Feb 29, 2012, 10:40pm »

It's great to work on all sorts of copy, written by you or someone else.

Because I'm a screenwriting major, I often end up writing down scraps of dialogue whenever I'm inspired by something, out of habit.

But more often than that, since I can't write things down in the shower, I just do free-form improv and create characters for the sake of creating/exercising my imagination--Who is the character, where is she, what just happened, and what's her response? If the spontaneous monologue is still fresh and interesting long after I left the shower or by the time I have some place to write down the monologue, I perform it.

http://hnilmik.newgrounds.com/audio/
"Riley", "I will write your paper", and "Bioshock - Baby Jane Time" are examples of improv turned into writing turned into a performance... "Oh Boy, I Got An Audition!" and "Best Voice Actress Evar Tips!!" were completely improv'd in front of the mic because I lost my mind during finals and stuff like that.

It's REALLY good exercise~

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