0624 – What’s Really Happening in a 1-by-1 Voice Over Read

2022.09.16 - 0624 – What’s Really Happening in a 1-by-1 Voice Over Read

·        “I must be rubbish. They’re asking me to record every line one-by-one!” – this isn’t that unusual. It may be down to the timing or the exact intonation that’s needed. Perhaps your sentence, or just a phrase, has to fit with those of other people as part of a poem or montage. Maybe it’s got to fit with the beat of music or pictures. Or it may be that the director is not just thinking of the overall Takes they like, but the lines they like from each Take, and get you to do individual lines, phrases or sentences separately to give them options when they are editing together. For example: “I’ll take line 1 from Take 4, and line 2 from Take 2… and even though they nearly hit each of the last two lines in Take 4 and 8, those two lines really gelled together in Take 11…” Instead: don’t worry that you’re not doing it all right. Politely ask why this is happening, do as you are asked and learn. Maybe ask to hear back the whole script when it’s been edited together so you can hear the overall effect and why this way of recording was necessary. Or if they say that the line is not quite right, ask to hear it in a rough mix with the other lines so you can hear for yourself what the problem is. Recording individual lines in isolation isn’t always easy as you have nothing lead in from. You have to ‘start cold’ on the context of that line and also with your pace and projection, and everything else. 

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