Title: SOUND ADVICE: VOICEOVER TECHNIQUES Author: Hal Robertson Date: May 2002
This Article talks about how with whatever you do for editing one time if not more you will need to do a voiceover for something and unless you have have money to buy professional voice actors and studio grade equipment, then the little things that could help.
First and foremost is to have a well designed script of what will need to be said. Like the article states “Not only is the script the blueprint for your video, it’s also the roadmap for those parts of the program that require a voiceover.” So it is extremely important to have it well written. Make sure that everything is grammatically correct, your phrases are easy to pronounce, and it sounds good. No mater if you perform the script yourself or use someone else, read the script out loud a few times and listen for clumsy words and phrases. Make edits to what you think would need to be changed. The reader of the script will be very happy you did so.
The voice is the second thing you are going to need, you first have to decide if a male or female voice is what you are looking for. Are you looking for an High-octane professional type of voice or a relaxed and laid back type of styled voice. Either type of voice you are looking for this article states how if you look around your area there are probably people who would be able to do this for and if your not wanting to spend money there are probably some who would do it just to get a copy to have a demo for their future endeavors or you might just to have to do it yourself and hope you are what you are looking for.
The rest of this article really just talks about equipment that you can buy cheaply but work well and that you don’t need $1000 equipment to make it sounds good even though its nice if you have that type of money and equipment. It also talks about how during the editing process of the voiceover the ability to cut out sniffles, coughs or awkward pauses and make it sounds so much more professional. Also the voice modifications that you can do like deeper voice or different things like that to change the voice to make it more of what you were looking for. Voice overs are bound to be needed no matter what and it just matters how you approach it and treat it just as important as everything else so you do a good job as bad voiceovers can ruin a film/video.