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by Quiet Cannon » Tue Jan 31, 2006 9:58 pm
Yeah, I figured Shinji's casting was due to limitations on other characters and the action scenes. My first thought when I saw this was "Why didn't you use Rei instead?", but then I remembered that Rei was something of a villain in this trailer, although... she shows up briefly looking something like a normal person and not some product of the virus so she can say a line that doesn't match her appearance.
As for the other castings, I know what it's like to run out of characters or not have a good match for a particular line. These are some of the solutions I've used that seemed somewhat acceptable (Particularly if a character only has one line). Have the 'speaker' off camera when the dialogue comes up. You can sometimes get by with showing a scene relating to the spoken dialogue so you wouldn't have to worry about casting. Another solution would be that similar voices can be done by the same character. Although, you have to have some characters to begin with. For your video, I noticed that Hyuga and Kaji didn't have any lines. They would probably have been better for the lines given to Maya, Misato, and Rei even if one of them would have been given 2 roles. Hyuga could have been given both lines of "There's something in here" and "What was that" and it still might have looked ok. The voices don't so different that it would be incredibly obvious to the viewer that they might be 2 different people (especially since they are fast), but the current setup makes it incredibly obvious that the voices aren't matched with the character.
Sorry for going on about this, but I'm a big fan of trailer videos and this is the kind of painful detail I like to see in order to maintain suspension of disbelief. It just bothers me when I see a big flaw in an otherwise excellent video. Either way, I’ll be adding this video to my AMV folder
