When not given pre-recorded audios, I found it makes it quite difficult to put in dialogue when you don’t have a voice actor or someone else to record some kind of dialogue for you. In my case, because the main character is who I assume to be a boy, without having someone to record any dialogue for my project, I decided to try to find audios online. However, I had to try to find audios that sounded close enough to each other so that it would be believable to be one person. I initially thought I could get away with recording my own dialogue and just transpose the audio down, however this didn’t really work out and scrapped this idea. I feel that if the main character was female, it would make this process for me a lot quicker because I would record random noises, such as when trying to stay awake with the character’s head shooting up after it feeling heavy as well as screaming and grunting when the character ‘pierced’ the pen into their leg. When editing the grunting for this specific part, I used one long audio that I cut up and stretched out so that they were all easily audible as one person. The parts where I recorded my own audios were for parts such as the teacher moving in the chair, movement of the pen the classmate was doing, movement of the main guy’s hoodie and during the ‘dream’ part of the animation, when trying to wake up clones of himself that have fallen asleep, I recorded me moving my backpack to imitate this movement. Once I got used to the process, watching back at the animation and thinking about what I could add, I would decide to either record something or search what I wanted form the different sites to collect samples from, which was quite easy – whatever I wanted to use, I would just search singular words like ‘gasp, ‘chair’ or ‘footsteps’.
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