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This week I feel like the luckiest guy on the planet. I am in Vancouver recording for the 2009 version of EA Sports NHL video game. I get to work with Gary Thorne, which is always an absolute blast…plus I get to spend time in my favorite city in North America.
Gary got here Sunday and worked all day Monday doing player names from more countries than you can name. The game is going to be sold just about everywhere in the world in 2009. I arrived Monday and yesterday was our first full day together. We wrap up Friday afternoon.
Most people I speak to assume that we stroll into the recording booth and start reading scripts. It doesn’t work quite like that. Other than player names being laid down, everything is ad libbed.
We started with 2-man Goal Replay stuff. Scenarios are painted and we supply the dialogue. Context 85 was “Goal Replay – The Focus Goalie tried to make a desperation save on the goal. Great effort, but he couldn’t get to the shot”. Gary would start with his call then I would chime in with my description of the play. We created (invented?) 5 different versions of each of these contexts. For the 2-man Goal Replays, there were 90 different scenarios. At 5 versions per scenario, we piled up 450 replay calls.
We also did “Tendencies From Failures to Success”. Our direction read as follows, “This is the second mention of this tendency. GARY will note that the team was having no success by shooting from the side boards earlier, but they stuck with it and it’s working now. BILL explains that the team was having no success by Free Wheeling in the zone earlier but they are now breaking down the defense and setting things up by carrying the puck”. There were 68 different scenarios of this and we created 3 versions of each. 204 Total.
By the time we finished the 3rd category we worked on which was, “2-man Known Sequences” and the day ended, we had created over 850 recorded segments. It’s pretty challenging and as a result, incredibly rewarding….as long as you’re not chewing on your tongue by the time the day is over.
Can’t wait to see what’s on the table for today.
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