We're most pleased with it when it's revelatory character stuff, when we're getting her attitude and philosophy out of that voice-over. I'll even have her being deflecting and defensive within first-person narration. She's a prickly girl.
Quotes about voice-over (10 Quotes)
They had to find a quiet place in the school for a voice-over, like a closet or an empty classroom.
Voice-over cartoons last for so long. They're timeless,
I like the idea of Eliza's voice-over at that moment 'My father taught me I could reach the ear of God,' ... She has achieved a kind of consciousness where she believes making this gesture will have some kind of redemptive value. It's some fundamental human thing like love.
I was always talking in weird voices from the time I was two. I guess I just found a way to keep doing it! I did get a degree in theater and took some voice-over classes... but most of it is just the same stuff I was doing as a kid!
A lot of companies will be doing the voice-over IP song and dance. And maybe this year more people will nibble, given that it's a good business continuity tool.
Although there was a screenplay, the actors never knew what questions I was going to ask them, and all of my character's voice-over narration and scenes were added after the fact.
Whenever you do an animated project or a voice-over project it's inevitable that part of your personality comes into play.
I wanted to see how much I could portray, just with voice-over and just the image I present onscreen, ... It's a different kind of acting for me . . . It's like silent-film acting and radio acting, at the same time.
Perhaps one of the things I'll get criticized for, ... is the choice not to use the internal monologue that Herbert used in the book. If you use the voice-over narrative -- if you use it to tell the emotional state of a character while you're watching that character -- it has the effect of stopping the motion picture. Movies are images and moving pictures. Novels are words.