Voicing the Moon Bird
Wed, Oct 21st 2009, 08:45
We made the decision quite early on to make The Moon Bird a non-dialogue short film. First of all it's a challenge to tell a story without dialogue and rely on the visuals, but also it helps the film travel to an international audience on the film festival circuit. That's not to say we didn't need some voice actors though!
The two main characters are Teardrop the orphan girl and Experimentia the wicked sorceress. Both vocalise throughout the film - from screams, to sounds of wonder, from whimpers to gurgled mumblings, from crying to furious roars of anger.
Ophelia Colver and Rachel Ferjani came down to Rhythm Studios in Bidford on Avon in August to make all of these noises and more! It was great to hear our characters coming alive and we're looking forward to actually adding their contribution to the finished film next week.
Photographs by Asia Werbel.
