Watashi wa genki desu, hontouni genki DESSUUUU!~ <3

or.. not really.. Watashi wa hountoni ”tired”! D:

A lot of things have happened since this February. I’ve started my second year at ”high school” – media and communication. I’ve gotten to know my class mates a lot better. I’ve ended up been addicted to translation – mostly translation anime OP/ED/Insets into Norwegian. And I’ve attended my second Anime/Japan/Manga convention.. ever *_* (The last thing occurred just recently – this weekend)

Right now, I’m online at skype – chatting with some friends about a school assigment before tomorrow – we’re going to make an debate-program, using our schools studio. ..we’re going to discuss the private life concerning media with a certain paparazzi-case in focus. Boring stuff.. Nice to have friends around ya!˙  (V)(^_^)

みんなも私を見ている!~ D;
Minna mo watashi wo miteiru!~ D:
Everyone will look at me!~ D:

*Dies*

..anyways, I’ll tell you guys how it went – maybe even post a video! 0.o

I guess everyone nowadays knows about ”Mermaid Melody”, but if you don’t, I’ll give you a brief summary. Lucia is a Mermaid Princess of the North Pacific Ocean and has been told that a group of water creatures have invaded the marine world and she must gather the six other Mermaid Princesses and their pearls to bring back the legendary goddess, Aqua Regina, to stop them. To fulfill this, she joins forces with Hanon and Rina, Mermaid Princesses who came up to dry land, use their pearls, turn into singing idols, and use their voices as an offensive. At the same time the show includes a lot of romantic trouble.

Some may say that the show resembles the ”hit show” ”Sailor Moon” that where really popular during the mid and late ninties: It both included a blonde, magical girl in as the protagonist and in both shows plays good and evil an important part. And everyone remembers how that anime ended up right? Over 20 foreign versions @_@ So it may be a good thing that it may look a bit like Sailor Moon ^^;;

Right now, as of 20th February seven dubs are available thoughout the world; The original japanese, a Korean, Taiwan (Chinese) one, Italian, European Spanish, Portuguese and one Hebrew version. And more are to come.. The dub were licenced in the USA, but ADV films did lose it. Still, the possibilites are great for it to be relicenced again.
But I think I’ll try to stop writing now, and instead give you some examples from the dubs:

Original Japanese:

Korean:

Taiwan:

Italian: (They changed the songs, but the story is still the same ^///^)

European Spanish:

Portuguese:

Hebrew:

There you have it. ”Legend of Mermaid” in all languages available so far…

Oh, and I just have to add one single song, from the Spanish dub xD
[His voice is one of the sexiest you'll ever hear. *_* <33 XDD]
[Youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IGvhA78vvzY]

You gotta love random facts! Or at least the tag-a-person-game-and-make-her/him-post-random facts XD~ Facts with no seriously meaning to anybody, random facts taken out of thin air, that still can help you define a person’s character. So I were tagged in this tag-a-person-game through facebook. And I thought it would be a good idea to post my result, 26 random facts about me here XD *Takes a ceep breath* Here we go~ n_n

MARTHE..

1. ..Loves animals above anything.

2. ..Has difficulties to separate left and right. Guess there will be some time before I’ll get my driving license then..

3. ..Tends to use more time to surf Facebook, Youtube etc., than to pay attention in class. Something my grades shows.

4. .. LOVES HER MAC! <33 (It’s like the perfect tool, that has everything!)

5. .. AND SHE LOVES HER iPOD!~ <33 (Music is my life @_@) …… And no. Apple did not pay me to say this xD

6. ..loves languages, but I tend to be too lazy to give a effort with the studying…

7. ..Which brings me to my next point. I’m SO lazy.. Soemtimes to lazy to even.. well do anything.. Laziness is my biggest burden *Shot*

8. .. I love multitasking. I can talk on skype, while listening to music, while singing, while edition a movie, while I watch TV. XD

9. .. Which is why my TV is often on, even though I don’t watch it. XD I love to have thise kind of noises around me.

10. ..My secret passion is Asian countries. Their culture is amazing!~

11. .. But I may be even more obsessed with Japan. I literary swallow anything I can get of it. <3

12. ..I’m often to lazy to make food, and tends to grab the first thing I can see in the fridge. My mom often says ”You’re going to starve in front of the bread, if no one slice it up for you”.. YAY! LAZYNESS!

13. ..I need seriously nine to ten hours sleep every day. Which I never get, so I often walk around like a a zombie on school.. Yeah~ (A)

14. ..The reason why I never get enough sleep is.. I love the night! <3 This is often the point of the day when I’m most awake. Everything is so silent and quiet and calm and.. *Melts*

15. ..I tend to mix different phrases or wordsfrom certain languages into norwegian when I speak it. Like: Ik kjeder meg (Ik is bored) or Ich bin sulten (Ich bin hungry) etc. etc.

(And I don’t even know german or dutch DX)

16. ..Chocolate! <33 *Drools*

17. ..You can rarely see me without a scarf around my neck. Even in the summertime, when it’s 20 degrees outside so I wear them XD No idea why though xD

18. ..It’s the same thing about hats. Except that I don’t wear them in the summer XD

19. ..I ADORE cats!~< <3 And cat animals in gerneral.

20. ..Loves water and the rain. I can spend hours just by watching the rain, or listen to the sounds of it. And I love to spend time in water XD In the summertime can I stay in the lake for hours xD

21. ..I often wear a hairbond around one of my hands. That way it’s easy to just pull of your hair if it’s detracting you. On the other side, my hand tends to get pretty cold, since my hairbind stops the blood stream, and my blood never reaches my fingertinps DX

22. ..People often say that I’m extremely pale..

23.. I despise blood.. If I see one single drop of blood will I puke.. DX

24. ..I always freeze a lot. To experience a time when I’m warm is pretty rare..

25. ..I don’t like the sun. Especially not in the summertime. To burning hot.. *Shot*

26. ..Number 22-25 is the reason why some people calls me a vegetarian vampire XDDDDDDDDDD …

It is recress at the moment which is why I’m updating, (My teammates on my filmproject went down to the cantina to get some food, but I bought mine a little while ago to away the worst rush, so I’m eaten my lunch already XD) since I don’t wanna get caught blogging on my secret blog by some others.

Damn, well actually they did just came back, looks like there were a little less rush in the cantina than I  thought it would be…. Guess, I’ll just have to write with my screen turned away from them:

I need some discipline. Can anyone please give me some, or else I want some of it to my birthday.. Seriuolsy, I check out my Facebook or my YouTube account everyt fifth minute even though  is never anything that happends there D: I need to finish my lecture for tomorrow (We’re going to talk about how we did work on this movie) and I need to finish my advertisement analysis (I’m so sick of analysis (Is that plural? DX) right now. Damn, I wanna dub something soon, I have lines I gotta deliver for Gods sake, but I never get time to it anymore.. x_X

At least I’ve finished one of my tasks. I’ve actually finished a trailer we’re going to make for our movie. try to make a trailer out of a four minute long film XD It’s almost impossible, but at least I’ve don’t have to think about that or stress out with the program we’re using called Final Cut Pro ( Which you can see a screenshot of here, including my project xD)

OH SNAP!~ I’ve managed to get away from my work again. Discipline anyone?

Seriously. I’m SO FED UP with school right now. Please, kill me someone. Or throw a rock at me so I’ll get a concussion or something. I NEED A BREAK! X__________X

Reason: The damn movie we’re making. First of I dedicated the whole last post to tell you why I was tired, but now I’m not just tired, I’m fed up. I’ve lost the faith in our project, the movie sucks like never before. (And it’s not even finished, I just know that there is no hope for it anymore) and I’m so sick of working with it. I need a break, I need some spare time.. I’ve not been able to catch my breath at all in two weeks or something because I’m so stressed….

So I’ll have to use my Saturday to travel to a class mate to work on the project. BAM!~ There, my whole Saturday disapeared to hell.. And like that wasn’t enough, my classmate lives on the countryside, so I’ll have to spend my day with two boys (My groupmates), two horses, dirt, cats, a lot of dirt. Alone. DAMN IT!

So excuse me. I’m just so angry now. Which is why this entry ended up like nonsense, excuce me. BYE!

The reason I’m tired can be summed up with one word: Filmmaking. Have you ever thought about how hard and how much energy you have to give away to make one? If you’ve never have, then let me tell you shortly about all the things you need to think about, do, fix to make one. It’s not really just to purt a camera on record and scream: ”Action!~”
First of, you need a script, then you need to find locations to make the movie (Which I used a whole Friday night on. And have you ever tried to be outside for five instant hours in Norway? In the winter. When a freezing wind almost knocks you down and you carry around equipment worth about 60.000 NOK, 8000 USD. Let me say that you won’t understad what I’m talking about, before you’ve tried it.) Then you had to spand another five hours outside again, to take pictures to out storyboard. Then you had to make a piece of paper for all the camera-directons and stuff, get actors, make a recording plan, make deals with film music creators and so on and so on. It takes FOREVER! @_@
AND THEN! When you finally have all that fixed, do you have to record the whole stupid shit! Which meant eight hours outside in the snow. We didn’t finish recoring yesterday before 01.00 in the night. Gosh!~ I think I’ve never been so tired. And then again, today we finished off at 23.30… Luckily we’ve finished the recording session now, everything that’s left now is the editing part (Which probably is going to be the hardest part…. XXX__XXX ;;_;;) But I won’t even think about that now, now I’ll have to relax for one day before we start that part..

Think about that next time you go to the cinema, it’s ALOT of work behind every single sound you hear, every single movement, every single piece of the movie.

The movie we’re making is basiclly a school assigment. As I’ve talk endeless times before I attend something called a kinda ”media”-class. Right now is the theme short-movie, and we shall make a movie with a limit of five minutes, which shall be send in to a national filmfestival for young filmmakers. Our theme is the traditional story everyone knows ”Little Red riding hood” with a modern twist. (Won’t say anything more right now, I’ll explain the plot later.) If we get a prize or get nominated will it be shown on national television @_@ Though, I doubt that will happend, the movie sucks.. DX But anyways XD We’ve finished our task…

So I’ll end this now. Need…. Sleep…. But I promise I’ll post the movies when it’s finished.
So sayonara for now!~ n_n

My christmas has been pretty nice, and pretty bad.. I think I basiclly can sum it up by saying: ”It had everything”. It started out nice: Christmas eve was nice (We celebrate Christmas the 24th in Norway in case you didn’t knew already..), I got to spend time with my family, (Which is basiclly just my mom, dad, me, my brother and my grandpa. But it’s not the quantity that counts is it? It is the quality..) we ate a lot of droolable christmas food (I was so full afterwards that I couldn’t sit down XD) and I got a lot of nice presents! I’ll list some of them here:

• - Movie: The Mamma Mia
• - Book: I en speil, i en gåte (Though a glass, darkly) by Jostein Gaarder
• - Book: The Tales of Beedle the Bard by J.K. Rowling
• - Book: Under en ny måne (New Moon) by Stephany Meyers
• - Book: Kabalmysteriet (The solitaire Mystery) by Jostein Gaarder
• – Lots of candy! *Drool*
• – Two pyjamases
• – Music: Which Witch (The operamusical) Soundtrack – West End Cast
• – A bag for my Macbook

I think the best of them where the Which Witch soundtrack. It’s an amazing musical and should definitivly get a lot more attention throughout the world. It did premire on London west end in ’92 or something, but it was shut down after two week, since most people thought: ”Hey, it’s from scaninavia, they only produce crap, let it blow to hell” or something like that XD I’m to lazy to write the whole story to the musical here, but if you’re intrested in it am I pretty sure it excists thing about it around the net! Anyways I’m so happy that my dad managed to get his hands on the soundtrack, I mean it’s from the early nineties, from a time I was barly born, and was only produced in a limited time.. WAHHA! I LOVE IT! So people anyone who enjoys musicals should look it up, some of the songs can be found on YouTube or at the musicals offical site: ”Whichwitch.com”.. Look it up! IT DESERVES A LOT MORE ATTENTION THAN IT GOT BACK IN ’92!~

The rest of the christmas has been noisy, my brother/mom and I had been fighting quite a lot, but I think everything was calmed down now, we just need a small break from each other. And I just need some time alone (Which is really hard when the walls in our house is like newpapers, I can hear people breath on the other side XD).. So I guess that works as my last post from ’08. Can’t wait untill tomorrow, I alway love new years eve; We’re going to a neighbour city to celebrate with some friends I haven’t seen in a while!

So a belated merry christmas from me, and a happy new year!~ *Sends up fireworks* 8D

 

You like my hat..? 'Cause I LOVE it! XD

I LOVE THIS SCENE! <3 It’s such a sweet one, and when I found the karaoke version that ”DubReadyVids” had made, then I was sold *_*

But sadly enough, my english is so extremly suckishish in this one.. I sound like a total retard. So please don’t tell me that, I know it already. But I’ve figured out that it’s no way to hide my horrid accent anymore.. I’ll rather try to make more fandubs so I can work on my prononciantion, so be prepered for many norwegian-accent-english dubbed fandubs in the future…. <_>

This was also one of the reasons why I did include an norwegian version of this scene too so people can see how I act in my mother tongue.

~Credits~
Lilo: Hikeni
Mixing: Hikeni
Karaoke: DubReadyVids

So enjoy~
(And if you watch in in high quality will you see that I’ve panned the sound XD *Everyone around her turns to questionmarks* That means that if you use headphones or two speakers, then the sound of my voice will turn from the left, right or both speakers depending on where ”Lilo” is in the picture xD)

Someone’s got bitten by the Twilight fever (Ironical..? Oh yeah~ XD)
Last week did I went to the Twilight Sneak Premiere in Norway, and it was so awesome 8D I’m still trying to figure out why the movie gave such an impression on me, but it really did. If you haven’t seen it already, GO WATCH IT NOW! *Points*

So when I came home did I started to seacrh for diffrent Twilight-goodies around the net, and I found the
german dubbed trailer of the movie. That made me think: ”Hey, I wonder how Twilight would have looked in norwegian, it would probably end up extremly funny. Let’s try” On so I did. 8D

I only dubbed ”Bella”s voice though, I didn’t dare to try ”Edward” or ”Emmett’s”…. That would just have ended up too retarded xD So this Trailer can probably be called a bi-languar one in a way.. Everyone speaks english except ”Bella” who speaks norwegian! XD YAY FOR BI-LANGUALIGY!~

I personally thought ”Bella’s” voice was extremly hard to do. First of is her voice pretty deep, a lot deeper
than the characters I usally dub (Which is like mouse-like ones compared to her..) But I can asure you that I DID NOT use any pitch or voice changer program at all to change my voice. I can speak like this,
it’s probably the most normal-voiced dub I’ve ever done when I think about it XD Though it was extremly hard to do the part of the third trailer where she’s supposed to be excited in a high voice.. XD

But after all, do I think the result is pretty good, but of course.. Remember people, I do prefer the original version of it. No way I would have watched it if I where dubbed.. THIS IS ENTIRELY MADE FOR FUN!~

Twilight © Stephany Meyers
Twilight: The Movie © Summit Entertainment

To be honest, this is a product from yesterday. Our task was to make a jingle for the radio station we’re having here at my school, that later could be used in a live show situation. We should use Garageband for this, and basicly try to compose a melody.

I thought this was extremly hard, and I did really stuggle. I’m not 100 % happy with the outcome, but on the other side, it is my first jingle ever, so I guess it’s okay. The voiceover is my voice (In norwegian of course) and it says something like this: ”Kanal 10. Live from the radio studio of MK. Kanal 10…” I know genius XD

You’ll have to download the file from here, to listen to it. But please don’t expect to much XD
http://www.mediafire.com/?2ywunwmmj5y

Ohh!~ And to be off topic, I’m going to watch the ”Twilight”-movie tomorrow! I’m totally excited and can’t wait! @_@

Edit: It’s on YouTube now, ’cause someone had troubles downloading it. Look here:

http://www.youtube.com/user/MartheAJ