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victortiti89
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I have some supernatural beings in my script. How can I write that they speak with modified voice, to sound more menacing? I mean, computer modified voice, like in some videogames? Thanks for answering!
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A simple wryly should do it.

          JOE BOB
     (Mechanical voice)
Wassup, yo?

Bad example, but that's the general idea of how I'd do it.


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If they all always speak that way, you could do it as part of the general character description, i.e., "They speak with digitzed voices" too.
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If this is something that only happens once or very few times throughout the script, I'd use a parenthetical... otherwise, I'd mention it in an action like when the supernatural being first speaks and maybe insert a few nods here and there regarding the menacing sounds.

You should treat it almost as a character description. You don't need to keep describing what a character looks like. If you emphasize it well enough, the reader will remember.


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If certain characters speak with a certain accent or the like all the time, I'd personally use a "note".

Example - All alien creatures speak in an evil, mechanical way.

Example - All locals speak with a Southern drawl.

Otherwise, you'll be using either wrylies or a line of prose every time a new character speaks or is about to.
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Quoted from Dreamscale
If certain characters speak with a certain accent or the like all the time, I'd personally use a "note".

Example - All alien creatures speak in an evil, mechanical way.

Example - All locals speak with a Southern drawl.

Otherwise, you'll be using either wrylies or a line of prose every time a new character speaks or is about to.


Jeff is absolutely correct!

Using wrylies all the time would simply lead to a distracting read. It would become irksome and draw one out of the story.

I do want to offer this advice however, regarding the direction at all:

Is it possible for you to show the menacing nature through the actions of the menacing characters? ...thereby leaving it in the hands of subsequent technicians subscribed to the project to produce?

I guess what I'm saying is: By saying less we're really saying more. What we might at first imagine as a mechanical voice and thus we kind of "plant" it in the readers mind might in fact weaken the effect.

IF we can write in such a way that we DON'T NEED *notes to convey something, then perhaps we truly are pushing ourselves on to be better conveyers of emotion.

Sandra



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Felipe
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I prefer to hint at it in action over using "notes." They just feel like they take people out of the story to me.


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Dialogue should be written in such a way that how it's said is never a question...

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You - will - die - Earthling.

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CLETUS
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Quoted from Felipe
If this is something that only happens once or very few times throughout the script, I'd use a parenthetical... otherwise, I'd mention it in an action like when the supernatural being first speaks and maybe insert a few nods here and there regarding the menacing sounds.

You should treat it almost as a character description. You don't need to keep describing what a character looks like. If you emphasize it well enough, the reader will remember.


That sounds about right.


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