

PAW PATROL MAYOR GOODWAY VOICE CHANGE SERIES
A late March special, “Mission Paw: Quest for the Crown,” drew 2 million American viewers aged two to five, a series record at the time. In the United States, where it airs on Nickelodeon, it was the number-one-rated preschool kids’ show for the first quarter of 2017. There are such kids in pretty much every corner of the globe-now in its fourth season, Paw Patrol airs in 160 countries and territories around the world. It was created as a preschool show-by Toronto’s Spin Master, which started out as a toy company-but six- and seven-year-olds still watch with genuine delight. But Paw Patrol’s grip on its viewers is unusually tenacious. The passing of time is also a problem for the audiences of those shows-every child grows up at some point, leaving childish things behind, even if that’s just to make way for other childish things.


It’s an occupational hazard, of course, in making a show for kids that stars real kids.
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This New CBC Show Is an Antidote to Reality TV.The crew decides to move on to other lines they need-quickly, before Calinescu’s voice changes. If necessary, Rodrigues says, he can digitally alter the teen’s pitch to match his voice to previous scenes. “But not unusably older.” Calinescu yips some more. “He does sound older,” Rodrigues says eventually. Patton Rodrigues, who’s been the sound-recording engineer since day one of the show, monitors the levels. Stephany Seki, the voice director, presses a talkback button and says to Calinescu, who’s standing alone in the recording booth, “Max, can you bark quicker?” Calinescu does so, more or less. To the ears of the recording engineers and directors huddled in the control room, who have heard hundreds of barks in Max’s four-year career, something is just a bit off. Chase’s bark is a signature sound, an exuberant yip familiar to millions of kids and parents around the world, but the actor-baby-faced, slightly goofy Max Calinescu-is thirteen years old and maturing by the minute. I mean the actor who plays Chase, of course, and by “Chase,” I mean the police-dog squad leader on the megahit cartoon series Paw Patrol. I t’s a cool early June day, and in a sound studio in Toronto’s east end, Chase is having a little trouble barking.
