Voiceover
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My group and I decided that our film opening had very little dialogue and we wanted the viewer to be able to learn about Mia (our main character) as well as hopefully be able to relate to the same struggles that she has. Since our main purpose was to make Mia relatable and have the target audience (high school students, high school graduates, and college students/people in their twenties) relate and understand what she was going through, we wanted to make the intro a bit more personal than we had previously planned.
Since changing our storyline and adapting to the new circumstances that social isolating and staying home has brought us, we decided upon making a voiceover be a part of the film opening. We figured that this way the audience would get an introduction on Mia and learn about her feelings and passions. I decided to do some research to make sure that using a voice over was partially to provoke some kind of emotion in the viewer and connect with them overall. Thankfully on the article I read on : https://www.cmdnyc.com/blog/2016/1/20/effectiveness-of-voice-overs, I found out that voice overs are often enough used for that exact reason! Here is some of the research I found and annotated to best understand our approach when it came to the voiceover.
Since changing our storyline and adapting to the new circumstances that social isolating and staying home has brought us, we decided upon making a voiceover be a part of the film opening. We figured that this way the audience would get an introduction on Mia and learn about her feelings and passions. I decided to do some research to make sure that using a voice over was partially to provoke some kind of emotion in the viewer and connect with them overall. Thankfully on the article I read on : https://www.cmdnyc.com/blog/2016/1/20/effectiveness-of-voice-overs, I found out that voice overs are often enough used for that exact reason! Here is some of the research I found and annotated to best understand our approach when it came to the voiceover.
After finding this research, I decided to dig deeper and see what other websites that were reputable had to say on why filmmakers typically use voiceovers. On https://www.business2community.com/video-marketing/male-female-voice-matters-explainer-videos-01712050 I found the research to support that audiences tend to prefer a female voiceover than a male.
We started our voiceover planning process and knew that the reason behind it all was the keep the film opening intriguing as well as give an insight into Mias life.
Mean Girls 2004:
A voiceover was used to introduce Cady Heron to the audience. This is a very similar approach as to what we wanted to do for Mia and we took inspiration from it for our own voiceover.
Riverdale 2017:
Voiceovers were used throughout Riverdale and we examined the delivery of them to ensure we were doing them in an appropriate manner.
We decided that Janey would record herself for the voiceover. Originally, I was going to type up a draft for the voiceover, which I will still include here, however we later figured out that when Janey says her lines in the film opening, it would be too obvious about the different voices. For this reason we had Janey be the one to record herself for the voiceover.
Here is my original draft (which we will not be using):
Here is the new draft, which will Janey will record :
We will be using Voice Memos to record the audio and we will then import it into iMovie while editing the raw footage.
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