Simon Edmondson Posted August 23, 2012 Share Posted August 23, 2012 http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b01m182n This was broadcast on BBC Radio Four this morning and will be again at 21:30 UK time. I hope it will be available to " Listen again" after that. The Actor and writer Steven Fry looks into how intonation in speech can change the way meaning is understood. It is centred around UK english and speech patterns but does cover aspects of US intonation as well, with a very good Dorothy Parker anecdote for example. It is not about animation or modelling but it might illuminate some of your work with sound files and dialogue ? regards simon Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Admin Rodney Posted August 23, 2012 Admin Share Posted August 23, 2012 Too much fun! Very interesting and informative. And yes, it is related to animation! Intonation has such wonderful applicability to the process of lipsync. Please read the proceding as: Very interesting (sloping downard) and inFORMative (now upward and ending with an emphasis). (pause) And yes, (downward) (pause) it IS (emphasis) related to animation (downward and almost sadly as if the speaker doesn't quite grasp the full and wonderful relationship or being able to properly leverage intonation in animation but recovering at the very end with a subtle yet optimistic flare that reveals a general love of the term 'animation'. In-TONE-ation (enuniated more slowly and carefully... almost as if someone is listening critically) has such WONderful app-LICK-ability (crisply rendered with a hard K) to the process (downward) of lipsync (further downward and fading throughout all the way to the end) Too much fun. Thanks for sharing the link! The broadcast starts a bit slow but picks up speed and quality and keeps getting better and better so stay with it! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Simon Edmondson Posted August 23, 2012 Author Share Posted August 23, 2012 And yes, it is related to animation! Rodney It is a long time ago but, on the same radio station, there was an item about how different nationalities and cultures speak in different rhythms. I can't remember the details ( it was about 15 years ago ) but, apparently, the english tend to speak in Iambic pentameter, ( 5 beats to the bar ), The French in 4 beats and afro/ Caribbean's in 6 beats. If I could remember who was explaining that it might be of interest re lip sync and animating body language ! regards simon Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hash Fellow robcat2075 Posted August 23, 2012 Hash Fellow Share Posted August 23, 2012 I took Chinese for a year. They have an intonation system where each syllable is spoken with either a rise, a fall, a scoop or a steady tone and each will cause the syllable to have different meaning. Our western notions of emphasizing a word through intonation or making something into a question by doing a rise on the end don't work in Chinese. This also explains to me why some of their traditional singing sounds so strange... most of their words can't be correctly spoken with a steady tone as we do in western singing. Another problem is these intonations and syllables are not consistent across dialects. Our Chinese teacher told us of the situation where you could say "I want you to cut my hair" in one city and in another city it would mean "I want you to beat me on the head." Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gerry Posted August 23, 2012 Share Posted August 23, 2012 Like Steve Martin said, "It's like they have a different word for EVERYTHING over there!" Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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