Creating the VOs

I was fortunate to have my cousins around, they were boys around the ages of the younger Garys, so I casted them to be my VOs. I had also casted other family members after to play the other supporting characters. I had done the recordings using a wireless mic and the Voice Memos app. The mic was very good as it only captured their voice, omitting the background noise that could have been quite annoying.

Directing them was the more difficult part. As they were still younger, there were a lot of giggles and funny voices when doing the voice recordings. It was hard to keep serious during our recordings.

I did my best to direct them, using analogies that they would relate to to get the emotion I wanted in their voice. It took a couple tries for them to speak normally and not in an animated voice, then another three to four recordings for them to get the dialogue right.

As much as this process was tedious, it was very fun to do.