Using effective voice-overs

Using effective voice-overs

"They called me mental"

In our films introduction we used a variety of voice-overs to help convey a persons inner monologue and to help the story develop. The first voice-over we used in our film was during Adam's mental breakdown scene. We got Josh (The actor of Adam) to say 'they called me mental' in a deep, intimidating voice. This instantly represents Adam's character as the protagonist however the footage shows him as being very vulnerable. This shows that he has two sides to him, on the outside he seems weak and wouldn't harm a fly, however on the inside he has a darker, unknowing side to him.

Radio announcer

When our character Luke wakes up he hears the radio playing and the radio announcer talks about the threat of a terrorist attack. This tells the audience that this threat is more serious than they may have already thought as it is coming from the radio. 

"The London we know, is going to be destroyed"

During the phone conversation between Adam and Luke a cut-scene occurs. The audience see shots of London but a voice-over is used coming from Luke saying how London is going to be destroyed. Even though this voice-over flows with the conversation between Luke and Adam it feels as if Luke is talking more towards the audience as they can no longer see Luke talking.

How we created the voice-overs:

To create the voice-overs we attached a microphone to the camera we used to film and spoke the lines closer to the camera. We then took the footage and put it into Premier Pro and added the footage to the sequencer. To just keep the audio we deleted the video so just the audio was left.