From the course: Creating a Short Film: 04 Working with Actors

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Directing a voice-over performance

Directing a voice-over performance

From the course: Creating a Short Film: 04 Working with Actors

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Directing a voice-over performance

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- A voiceover is when an actor's voice is recorded and played over the film. This is usually done in a studio during post-production. We did a lot of voiceover work on The Assurance, and it was a fascinating process. I found the experience to be similar in some ways, but also very different than directing on set. So let's talk about that for a minute. For the initial version of the film, Eva Jane did the main voiceover for the film. Honestly, this was the best part of the original edit, easily. I really liked directing her voiceover performance 'cause it was so low pressure. Each take only takes about a minute or so, there's no crew, no deadlines. We could just take our time and experiment with how to say different lines, it was great. Although this does tend to create a lot of files to sift through in editing, so it's important to catalogue the takes well, as we'll look at in the series on editing. As we'll see going into the next tutorial, voiceover work is very different when…

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