Wednesday, 25 April 2012

Voice Over

As part of our film trailer we decided that we wanted to use a voice over to act as an additional voice so that it wasn’t the actors talking the whole time. To do this we used a recording device. We then had to find the right sort of voice for our trailer. The first step was deciding whether it should be male or female and after much discussion a female voice was chosen. We needed the voice to be sad as this is what we thought would best suit our trailer. We then put into imovie and had to edit bits which did not sound professional enough to be used in the trailer. The script read:

It's like you're screaming but no one can hear.

You almost feel ashamed that someone could be that important, that without them,

You feel like nothing can save you.

No one will ever understand how much it hurts.

You feel hopeless, like nothing can save you.

And when it's over and it's gone, you almost wish that you could have all that bad stuff back so you can have the good.

However we did not want the whole script to be read at one point of the trailer as it is too long so we broke it up as above and separated it throughout the trailer where we thought it work well with what the scene is showing.
One of our main actors in our film was under the age of 18 so we felt it only appropriate that we asked her parents permission that they know what the recording is for coursework purposes. We did this in a letter to her parents and in this letter we included a contract which is proof that they allowed their child to be recorded and if they did not wash for their daughter to be in the film then they simply did not have to reply. Here is a version of the letter we sent them.


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Dear ……..

I am writing to ask for your permission to use your daughter as one of the main actors in our trailer for our media coursework. Below is a contract which is proof that you willingly accepted your daughter to be recorded for a school coursework purpose.


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I                           give permission for the recording of my daughter to be allowed for school coursework only. I know that this is proof I have been asked permission and understand it is for a school coursework purpose/.

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