More roadblocks on the way and audio issues

While I though that the stress could not be any more major and that time was not flying away from me, more problems are always awaiting in the future and life usually does not goes as it is expected. For starters. I had developed a massive case of migraine, havign headaches that leave me exhausted as well as unable to concetrate. Beecause of that, I was not very productive in any of my classes today, I will have usually finished multiple things, as well as editted my film further. Also, while checking some of my footage, I noticed how some scenes for my montage are not usuable, because I mistainkly filmed them vertically instead of horizontally, which means that I will have to decicate a certain part of my weekend in reshooting those scenes, also checking to see other scenes. As it is been clear for the past few weeks,the ones acting in this film are me and my Dad. A scene in the beggining required my Dad to read some dialogue for me to record and then add the telephone effect, but, out of the sudden, he decided he did not wanted to say that part of diologue due to not "being him" and not knowing how to say it. I tried convincing him, but since I know he is tired, I gave up and decided to, once again, do it myself. 

I already knew how to made the voice for it to sound like it was coming from a telephone, not neccesarily difficult, but now I had to add the problem of making it deeper. For comparison, this is the raw voice recording from my phone:

It was already some noise in the background as well as having some interruptions in my speech, I was able to fix some of those problems through the program's nose reduction and normalization, but it is still hearable in the editted version. I considered using text to voice, but that would have sounded very much more fake, which I did not want, also being too "formal" to the tone that I would want the father to say it. Thnakfully, there was a tutorial to implement a deeper voice into a recording:

I still find that the final product to sound as if I was faking my voice to sound deeper in a parody sort of way, which does not go with the serious tone and the conventions of my genre,  not sure how to fix that match the dialogue that my Dad says on camera later on. In any case, I have a draft for what I want it to sound like, so I positioned in the part of the film that it would and was able to edit it into the video itself, here is the result for now:

I am actually proud of the results, will still mix again with other audio and see if it sounds better. I need to find my other diagetic and non-diagetic sounds as well. I noticed, as I was exporting my video from my editting, it takes very long for only a couple of seconds, will need to account for that when I finish the project or try comrpesseing it to a smaller file size. I want to refresh my memory as well with the differnt types of cuts and transitions, since I feel like what I am doing is just not as smooth or understandable as I would want to, need to see other options, as well as how to add my moving text for the credit sequence. 

Citations:

“How To: Make Your Voice Deep in Audacity.” Youtube, Casual Savage, 7 Nov. 2016, www.youtube.com/watch?v=Aa7G8w1_3AU.