Voice acting competition, deadline September 4:th

[Andail]

The rules are easy. Record this text using only your own voice. The winner will be decided by vote.

This round's text is a transcript from the fellowship of the rings, the movie.
You only read the dialogue (double brackets), not the descriptions.
This may be a very difficult part to read (although I avoided Gandalf to make it a bit easier) but just make your own interpretation and it'll be fine!

Transcript

<<Gimli: I have taken my worst wound at this parting, having looked my last upon that which is fairest. Haugh, henceforth I will call nothing fair unless it be her gift to me.>>

<<Legolas: What was it?>>

<<Gimli: I asked her for one hair from her golden head. She gave me three.>>

<Legolas smiles.>

<The Fellowship passes out onto a larger branch of the Anduin beneath sheer cliffs. The Uruk-Hai march along through the forest as the three boats carrying the Fellowship float along.>

<It is getting dark. The Fellowship rests on a small island. Boromir looks out from behind a large rock, silvery webs of lights reverberating from the water. He looks worriedly at a log floating in the river. Small hands clutch it, and the top of a head is barely visible over the log‘s edge, where eyes glint softly.>

<<Aragorn: Gollum. He has tracked us since Moria.>>

<<Voice: Golllllluum…>>

<<Aragorn: I had hoped we would lose him on the river. But he's too clever a waterman.>>

<<Boromir: And if he alerts the enemy to our whereabouts it will make the crossing even more dangerous.>>

<Frodo hears them. He looks worried.>

<<Sam: <sitting beside him> Have some food, Mr. Frodo.>>

<<Frodo: No, Sam.>>

<<Sam: You haven't eaten anything all day. You're not sleeping, either. Don't think I haven't noticed. Mr. Frodo…>>

<<Frodo: I'm all right.>>

<<Sam: But you're not! I'm here to help you. I promised Gandalf that I would.>>


The deadline is one week. Present your recordings with .ogg or .mp3.

[Shinan]

Are you allowed to modify your voice with strange effects or should it all be "as is"?

[Chicky]

as is i'd guess. Seeing as it's voice acting not modding :/

[Andail]

I'm inclined to agree. See it more like an improv theatre, skip the effects and reverbs and stuff

Also, the point isn't necessarily to impersonate the actors playing these characters, but to make a credible interpretation, what it could have sounded like.

[Gilbert]

Hehe what a coincidence, the fellowship movie was just shown on TV here yesterday night, I only watched the first hour of it though.

Since I won't be entering I'll shut up now.

Nice competition BTW.

[Gord10]

LOL, also it was shown on TV in Turkey 2 days ago
Here's my entry (sorry, my pronunciation and voice aren't so good.).
http://www.geocities.com/akk13us/lotr.zip

[Andail]

Thanks Lonely Star, that was very entertaining

[Corey]

Here's my entry (sorry, my pronunciation and voice aren't so good.).

well it seems that you are the only contestant atm so you make a good change for now 

[Tuomas]

this sounds nice.. I think I'll enter too later on...

[PyroMonkey]

Here's the two parts to my entry. Crappy, I know, but I used the default windows 2000 sound recorder.

Part 1
Part 2

[Haddas]

That sounds good

EDIT: My entry! Now you will all hear the terror that is me

http://www.tdrdesign.net/uploads/lort.zip

[Tuomas]

If anyone could tell me a site that will host mine and where it wont disappear immediately...
Thank you

[Shinan]

I logged in to my ancient home page just to get somewhere to put this file... Let's hope it works and all though. They say these things are shitty nowadays.

http://www.angelfire.com/in/janthegreatest/drokk.html
(I hear it's impossible to do direct linking from there nowadays, so there's a subpage)


I did, I hope, a slightly own take on it 8^)

[PyroMonkey]

If anyone could tell me a site that will host mine and where it wont disappear immediately...
Thank you

There's one site I know of that could host your file...right here... http://www.rapidshare.de/

[Tuomas]

Thanks PyroMonkey!!! I hope it works http://rapidshare.de/files/4545771/LoftheR.mp3.htmlÃ,  Ã, 
If not, I'm in a dead end again
hmm. go to the bottom of the page... click something, I'm having trouble finding out what, but...

Newest edit: go to the bottom and select the green free -box. then go to the bottom of the appearing window... If it don't say Download: LoftheR.mp3 you either must wait or try again... That's how I got it working

[PyroMonkey]

You have to click the "free" button, and then check the bottom of the screen to see if you can download it.

[Tuomas]

Oh, you were quicker than my edit...

[TheYak]

I felt worst about butchering Rhys-Davis' role. 
I have to admit I would've passed on this were it not for my enthusiastic vote for the contest.
I guess everybody has to get practice in somehow.

Linkage
Compression from HQ wav to Medium Ogg to Low MP3 did some funny/tinny things.

[rharpe]

Am I late??? This is my very first voice over... ever!
http://home.oct.net/rharpe/lotr.rar

[TheYak]

The mid-eastern theme of yours was pretty damned cool.  So, deadline's today. [Edit: Re-read rules and noted keyword "vote"]

I was fairly embarassed by mine, but it was an awesome learning experience both delivery-wise and logistically.

Since the style is open to interpretation (i.e. doesn't necessarily have to sound like characters from the LOTR movie), I vote rharpe.  I liked much of Haddas's but after the impressive beginning lines it began to feel wooden.  rharpe actually kept up character personality and delivery throughout. 

One suggestion, in deferrence to those for whom English is a second language, might I suggest everyone have the option to translate the dialogue and deliver it in their own language?  After all, we're going for pauses, tones and delivery more than understanding the meaning.