A New Idea

Throughout editing my post apocalyptic opening scene I started to ask for feedback from my teacher's, family and friends to spot anything that I could add onto my opening scene before it had to be finished. I did get many people asking me what was happening a lot of the time and they did admit they would not know that my opening scene is in the post apocalyptic environment. Therefore what I decided to do eventually was add a voiceover to explain the story and to help people understand what they were watching. I recorded the voiceover on my iPhone 5s and from watching my preliminary task recently I learned from my mistake that I should not record my voiceover too close to the person's mouth as it sounds too loud, you can hear the person breathe and you can hear them almost spit into the microphone. I asked one of my media teachers if they would be able to do my voice over for me as I knew that he would take this seriously, I asked him to try to sound very tired and as if he had not ate or drank for at least a week to get the effect I wanted, so he ended up pressing his throat a little to try to get a deep and dark voice. I gave him a short script consisting of him saying , "Day twenty-three, still can't find any food, or water, each day gets harder, but I know, we can make it through, this disaster", I asked him to take breaks throughout this so that it would make him sound like he had no energy or hope so that the audience would connect with my opening scene more and understand it better. Whilst editing after recording this I cut down the recording to where the pauses were and placed them on each cut before my credits so that it matched with my music and the edits.