Post-Production: Recording the Voiceover

Fortunately, one of the teachers at our school, Miss Montague agreed to record the voiceover for our short film. We initially asked her as we both agreed that she had a very peaceful voice that would fit our short well well. Initially we recorded the voiceover in a separate quiet room with the microphone on a Macbook. We asked her to record it fully through twice and then record her saying the opening and finishing sentence a few times at different speeds. We also got our media teacher, Mrs Dixon, to record the voiceover as we could then compare the voices and see which one fit our short film best. After listening to the voiceovers we decided that we would use Miss Montague's version as we thought hers fit our film best. However after listening to our voiceover we noticed that her voice on the audio was too quiet that it wouldn't be heard over the soundtrack. It was also quite fuzzy and unclear, therefore we decided to re-record the voiceover the next day on a different microphone. 

This time we used a separate standalone microphone to record the voiceover. This microphone also allowed us to listen to the audio in real time through a set of headphones, this allowed us to check the audio was clear at the time of recording, therefore avoiding any technical problems when it came to editing. We used the same technique as before by getting our voice actor to record the voiceover the whole way through twice and then record the first and last sentences a few times at different speeds. This was the finished result of one of our takes:

We exported our finished film from Premiere Pro and imported it into iMovie to add the soundtrack and the voiceover as this was the platform we thought would be the easiest for us as we had previous experience using the programme and understood it well. We then edited our voiceover making sure each segment word with the visual pairing to do this we cut the audio clip and moved it to the correct time. We used the best version of each segment of the script from the different takes we got to make our voiceover sound as professional as possible.