Tuesday, January 25, 2011

Today's Progress and Voiceover Conventions

I really feel like my documentary is coming together now. I have filmed everything apart from my talking heads and the psychiatrists interview. Tonight I am filming the interview, so will be able to upload it on Thursday! I have all the audio I am using uploaded and chosen for each clip of the documentary, all of my archival footage uploaded, so it is finally starting to look like an extract from a documentary.
In my talking heads I plan to ask all teenage girls whether they are happy with their body, and all teenage boys as to what they think about my teenagers weight. I will hopefully film these either on Thursday or next week. After editing the last few bits I can finally start making drafts of newspaper advertisements and magazine articles.

Also forgot to mention I need to record my narrative (Voice of God), I still haven't decided whether this will be me talking or somebody else. Can't stand my own voice, but we'll see. I am still indecisive about whether I will have a male or female narrative. If I was to have a female it is because I feel that anorexia at the moment in society is to do more with women, and women are 'supposedly' more educated about it. If it is coming form a woman I feel it will sound more personal for my interview because a woman may make the audience feel comfortable to listen to about such a serious issue. However if it was a male I feel this would be better because more docuementaries tend to have male voiceovers.
The voiceover will usually be authorative in some way, encouraging the audience to think that they either have some kind of specialist knowledge or, as in the case of people like Michael Moore and Nick Bloomfield: 'the right' opinions that people should pay attention to.
Voice-over (also known as off-camera or off-stage commentary) is a production technique where a voice which is not part of the narrative (non-diegetic) is used in a radio, television, film, theatre, or other presentation. The voice-over may be spoken by someone who appears elsewhere in the production or by a specialist voice actor. (WIKIPEDIA)

1 comment:

  1. make sure that you have evidenced the connotations of breaking convention and using a male voice
    then add a post listing the 'brand identity/value that you feel your voiceover needs e.g educated, cultured, accented, warm, older...etc.

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