Editing- Female voiceover

Our opening scene involves voice overs. I had to edit in the female/villains voice over which we acquired from a voice actress on the internet. The script we gave to the voice actress included pauses between sentences where we would need to cut in order to fit the voice around the footage.

The image above shows the sound clip as one long clip as the voice actress recorder the whole script in one recording.

I then bladed the clip according to where we had the pauses on the script. This would then enable us to move the sound clips around.

                            

                            

                            

The most important part of the voice over was to make sure that the timings of when it said 'where's the money' fitted in with when the male actor on the screen said this. Therefore, we had to line up the sound clip and footage correctly.

We wanted the female to be heard as soon as the first image appeared on the screen. So I moved the sound clip that began with 'detective number 6' into this position. The next thing I had to do was to line up the sound clip which said 'I would send them the usual ransom note' before the ransom note on the tape recorder began to play. As well as this we did not want the male voice over and the female voice over to be overlapping.

The next clip describes the detective meeting the femme fatale's accomplice in the alleyway therefore this sound clip had to be placed as the detective begins walking down the alleyway. 

The final clip shows the femme fatale walking away with the money in the briefcase as the voice over says 'a girls got to make a living after all'.
After all of the voice overs were put in place I then had to cut them down to make sure that there were't any long pauses between the each of the sound clips.

Evaluation

• Overall, the sound fitted in well with the clips and we were able to edit them to make sure they were the correct length.
• The voice over helped us to convey the story and genre more.