The Right Reading: Finding Your Video's Voice
The sultry voice of Kathleen Turner tempting Roger Rabbit...The mellow, resonant tone of James Earl Jones stating "This is CNN"...The grandfatherly voice of Hal Riney gracing commercials for Perrier and "the wines of Ernest and Julio Gallo."
These are not voices that just happen; they are trained voices, deliberate voices, voices finely tuned to impact the listener.
Video productions use trained voices such as these to narrate commercials, documentaries, sports, how-tos, training tapes and fundraising tapes. The new medium of interactive CD-ROM opens additional avenues for the use of voice-over talent. In fact, for many informational videotapes, the voice is what gets the message across to th…
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