DEI training that’s award-winning? We won a silver medal, Best Unconscious Bias Training at Brandon Hall, 2022. How? I’d say its:
- an expert panel ensures course agendas instil key messages accurately
- brilliant course designers, animators, producers, and …
- voice actors who are comedians!
Wait – what? Comedians? For such serious messaging?
Yes! Actor and comedian Kris Siddiqi cast and directed the voicing for Ryley Learning’s “Anti-Racism & Unconscious Bias for Workplaces” course.
Kris picked outstanding people – comedians with lived experience of discrimination – to voice the roles of the animated characters:
“The great thing about working with my friends who are comedians… there’s a short-hand in understanding the situation each character is talking about…
I gathered a lot of fantastic people to add their talents to this project. They let their life stories and their experiences bleed through and really come out in the characters they were playing.”
Why Do We Use Professional Voice Actors?
Digital voices and “lay peoples'” voiceovers on PowerPoints don’t cut it. We knew we had to match our top-notch video animation with quality voicing by professionals.
We went with an All-star cast. All the actors are members of the ACTRA union. We see and hear them in plays, movies, commercials, radio programs, and in live stand-up comedy.
During production, our actors knew when to make changes to ensure the script was more realistic for the character, or authentic to them as a person in the world.
Then we took multiple takes with a director to make sure the actor’s tone matched the message we wanted conveyed.
