|
| The
choice of narrator is an important choice for a media production. |
|
Channel
6 Television has contacts with a regular pool of professional voices -
including actors, journalists and other professional narrators.
The company also has contacts with many foreign language narrators who work
in languages other than Danish.
For clients who wish to approve the choice of narrator personally, we
usually arrange a small selection of test recordings from which the client
may choose.
|
Narration recording |
|
| The
voiceover recording session may be scheduled either before the editing, or
after, depending on the nature of the production and the style of
narration. |
|
Some
experienced narrators are able to narrate an entire film “on-the-fly”
– simply by following the pictures and master timecode.
Such artists will usually have rehearsed the entire narration at home
before arriving for the session. This approach is useful for narrating
existing films – for example when producing a new language version –
but it does require a very experienced narrator. |
|
| For most productions we prefer to edit to a pre-recorded
voiceover, as this approach makes it easiest to achieve perfect timing
between vision and narration. Even with this approach, we expect our
narrators to rehearse their narration from the script before arriving for
the recording session, so that their suggestions and timing problems may
be accommodated quickly. |
|
| Client
approval is often vital! |
|
Clients
who wish to approve the voiceover script prior to recording have the
opportunity to do so, though on most productions it must be expected that
minor changes - that do not affect the meaning or context - may be
necessary during the recording session to achieve the most natural
narration by the artist.
The client is also welcome to be present during
the voiceover recording session. |
|
| For
some productions - particularly industrial films with a high degree of
technical content - it is often necessary for the client to approve the
narration text before it is recorded and edited. The same can apply to
other elements such as graphics and captions. |
|
| For
every production, the particular elements that must be approved by the
client, and the plan for such approval in relation to the production
schedule are defined in the production contract and subsequent production
plan. |
|
| The
reason for a well-defined approval schedule is simple - the production
elements to be approved are usually those that involve many hours work -
often with the involvement of freelance artists. Such elements must be
right first time if a fixed-price agreement shall apply. |
|
| So
for example - the narration text will be subject to approval before the
recording session - any subsequent alterations to the text that
necessitate re-recording would not usually be covered by a fixed-price
agreement, and would be billed separately.
|
|
|
|
