Voice Over

Our film is really coming together, with the last final touches needing to be added in.

We still have music to be added in for some parts, but on the whole, we are more or less done with editing and are all really pleased with the result.
I was really lucky to be grouped with such an awesome team as everybody has such great media or leadership or creative skills I felt rather redundant at times! 

So, today we did the final aspect of the film- the voice over.
It took us about an hour to get the narration done, and another to pick out the ones we liked to add in.
It was the first time I had ever done something like that and it was a great experience over all.

We had an issue at first with the type of recording we would be using for the voice over.
We wanted to use the recording system that was available in the editing suites but we tested it out the day before and had a really bad sound as it would either have too much echo or reverberation of some words if placed too closed, and would sound too distant if too far away. It would require a lot of adjusting of the mic and gain in order to get good sound, which was really too much hassle to do on the day itself before John, our narrator came in.

We decided to go with the h2 zoom instead.
We were worried that the h2 would not look professional enough but thanks to the techs, we managed to get our hands on a stand, a mic, and a pop filter for the h2 zoom.
Thankfully, we managed to book a suite at the far corner as well with no sound coming through the glass.
It all went smoothly and we managed to achieve the exact effect we were aiming for.

Overall, it was great learning experience for a media student.

This blog post I found explains the challenges and some background on voice overs as well I found very educational.