Voice Over- Trial and Error

In our original storyboard and when planning our trailer, it was said from the start that the voice over would be used in the teaser trailer as this is a common convention. A reminder of the script:



"Enter a medium. Social Networking.
A Place where you can be who want to be.
Become your fantasy.
But what if your fantasy is to manipulate, deceive and impersonate.
What if your fantasy is to be something you're not."


In order to record this, we allocated someone we knew who we thought would be ideal for doing the voice over and proceeded to record it. This was done in the recording studio at school, and we had booked a day to do this. The whole procedure was done by Ella in the live room where she read out the script and we paced it according to the speed of the trailer by giving hand signals. Then when Ella was one, I went on to removing any static sounds done via a Mac on Adobe Audition by going onto 'Effects'--> 'Amplitude and Compression'--> 'DeSsor'. It was then completed by adjusting the threshold and dragging the first line where the dark green area is back to take the static away.

When putting the voice over onto the Mac for it to be used on Final Cut Pro it was only necessary that the voice over was saved into our area, ready to put on iTunes and then put into our trailer. Once this was done, we dragged it into our trailer once everything was in place, so that was the music and all the clips in the order that we wanted them to be in. However, when playing the whole final thing with the voice over, it was needless to say that it did not cohere with the trailer at all and sounded 'messy' with the music and the occasional dialogue. The voice over did not work well also because we figured that even if we were to redo it, we would never be satisfied with any voice we tried out. This then lead to the decision of excluding it from our trailer completely.