Voice Overs

In existing trailers that we have watched and analysed, there has always been a lot of narrative to help tell the story that is unravelling in front of the audience. However, we didn't want to include too much narrative in ours because we didn't want to break the naturalism of the trailer and didn't want to add in too much into a short trailer.

We wanted to include some dialogue in the form of a voice over on our trailer though because we wanted to explore different creative techniques and we wanted to make it clear to the audience what was going on in the trailer from the outset. From then on, we compiled different sound effects and soundtracks to fill in the rest of a trailer; adding to the dramatic effect and tension that we wanted to build up throughout the trailer.

The process of recording our voice overs was relatively straight forward. On IMovie we clicked on the clip that we wanted to do a voice over on and from there we clicked the little microphone icon. There was then a countdown, and after three seconds we would simply talk into the computer what we wanted to say in our trailer. We were then able to adjust this using clip trimmer to make it fit perfectly with the shot that was being shown at the time. Although at first the voice overs were very loud and drowned out the background music, by going onto the settings and adjusting the volume we were able to make the voice overs sound a lot more natural without having to add any other effects onto it.

Our voice overs included us saying:

'So how long has the house been empty?'

'I don't know, she moved out when my cousin died.'