Series 8 - Episode 8
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I think it IS Clifford Norgate, even though they're doing something weird with the effect on his voice. For the end of the same scene in Episode 9, Clifford Norgate is credited as Smirkenorff so that's probably not a direct lie. Maybe they did it specially to match the Bhal-Shebah "dragon" voice, having forgotten to try it out in Episode 7, then realised it was a rubbish idea and abandoned it for Episode 10.
They do put a similarly weird, slowing effect on Smirky's voice (though not nearly so extreme as this one) when he first speaks to Simon in S7E2, which I think provides a traceable bridge between his normal voice and his "Dunstan" voice. There is no sign of this effect after he actually takes off in that episode, however.
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Obviously I have no idea who voiced Smirkenorff at the time. They hid that kind of stuff from us.
However there is a related oddity in this room. Dunstan insisted on telling this particular joke and whomever voiced Skirkenorff didn’t know the format. In the original take, Smirkenorff burst out laughing as soon as Dunstan said “to get his pension”. Right at the end of our quest they brought Paul Valentine back in to rerecord the audio and tell the joke properly. If you listen very carefully, you can tell the audio changes.
So it could be some kind of weird audio matching going on.
The only other point of relevance is that to establish this shot, the puppet would need to be in the adjoining void (together with Clifford). It may be they were trying something to make the audio a bit less irritating for the dungeoneer (who would inevitably hear the audio twice).
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Obviously I have no idea who voiced Smirkenorff at the time. They hid that kind of stuff from us.
However there is a related oddity in this room. Dunstan insisted on telling this particular joke and whomever voiced Skirkenorff didn’t know the format. In the original take, Smirkenorff burst out laughing as soon as Dunstan said “to get his pension”. Right at the end of our quest they brought Paul Valentine back in to rerecord the audio and tell the joke properly. If you listen very carefully, you can tell the audio changes.
So it could be some kind of weird audio matching going on.
The only other point of relevance is that to establish this shot, the puppet would need to be in the adjoining void (together with Clifford). It may be they were trying something to make the audio a bit less irritating for the dungeoneer (who would inevitably hear the audio twice).
Dunstan insisted on telling this particular joke and whomever voiced Skirkenorff didn’t know the format. In the original take, Smirkenorff burst out laughing as soon as Dunstan said “to get his pension”. Right at the end of our quest they brought Paul Valentine back in to rerecord the audio and tell the joke properly. If you listen very carefully, you can tell the audio changes.
Oh yeah! I always figured that joke must have been pre-arranged since Paul knew how to respond, but I hadn't noticed the audio difference where it's been redubbed.
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In my experience with editing Notmare, I have always been amazed by how painfully obvious these things are when you know the correction is there but nobody else notices them.
There are one or two with geek week as well where I know there was a bit of a funny and the editing has mostly (but not entirely) covered it up.
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