More Voiceovers

Our previous recording had a few mistakes in so me and Aimie re-recorded the voiceover. I am the 'PC Smith' and Aimie is 'Mrs. Richardson'. We have began to edit however a lot more needs to be done.

As our original script was not long enough to fill up our 4 minute long film we added more to the script;

(after Mrs. Richardson says: Maybe you should be talking to her boyfriend, not me.)
Police: Why? What was he like?
Mrs. Richardson: I didn't get to meet him. She never let me.
Police: What about her friends?
Mrs. Richardson: I only really met Sarah Underwood and Stephen Land, but they haven't been to the house in months.
Police: Do you know if she is still in close contact with them?
Mrs. Richardson: No, like I said, she never told me anything like normal daughters should.

Tenth Draft

We have now recorded our police interview with Aimie and my own voice, this draft includes a sample of the recording which has been edited to distort the full name being spoken. Again, the sound is not very clear as it is a recording of the track as we cannot add the track so far as it is not finished.

Script For Voiceovers

Policeman and Woman (Leylas Mother): This is PC Smith interviewing Mrs. Richardson concerning the disappearance of her daughter Leyla Richardson. Time is 12:43.

Possible Questions From PC Smith
- Mrs. Richardson, when was the last time you saw or had contact with your daughter?
- What was her mood like?
- Did she say or do anything that you consider out of the ordinary?
- Is there anyone that you know of that would have a desire to harm your daughter?


Possible Answers From Mrs. Richardson
- She was at home yesterday, we had a cup of tea and lunch together. Just like we always do.
- Well she's a typical teenager, how do you think her mood was?!
- She was on the phone for a long time, probably to that boyfriend of hers, and she wasn't paying me enough attention. I shouted at her for getting all tarted up in those heels and she stormed out. That was the last time I saw her.
- No. Maybe you should be talking to her boyfriend, not me.

This is our decided script for the News Report;
Concerns are being raised after the disappearance of a 16 year old girl, Leyla Richardson, who was last seen a week ago in North London. The police have stated that the case is becoming more serious than they initially thought it would be. Mrs.-, Leyla's mother is urging people to come forward if they have any information on the case. All those closest to her are being questioned but so far the police can't seem to find any suspects and no-one seems to know anything about the mysterious disappearance of Leyla Richardson.

However the 'Richardson's' will be blurred out similar to Plan B - Suzanne

Voiceovers

We had a group discussion about the idea of a voiceover, so to help us we made a spider diagram of all the possible ideas we could think of such as a police interview with the characters mother or friends, the character herself, simple narration or even news reports on the case. We also discussed who would be suitable that we know for these voices as we mainly need well spoken people (like a news reporter etc). We decided that a 4 minute conversation between two characters would be too dull and a 4 minute news report would reveal too much information to the viewer so we decided to mix our voiceover together to show chaos. We heard the song Suzanne by Plan B and thought the news reported sounded very effective especially how the names blur in and out.The entire song is very graphic however I think this is what Plan B was obviously aiming for particularily with the squirting noise of blood and chainsaws, the news report is between 2:58-3:24.

Idea of Voiceover

After our visit to the CLC we have kept music in mind. We opened Garageband on our school's Mac's and unfortunately we do not have all of the music that the CLC had on their version of Garageband so we decided to think of an alternative. We thought that a voice speaking over the random clips could provide more of an explanation rather than music. When discussing our ideas for a voice over as a group each of us has different ideas at to what it should be. We came to a decision that a police interview would fit well as it could reveal a lot to the audience with out being too blatent as well as introducing characters without showing them.
We are still unsure whether we are going to have discreet music in the background or if we are going to edit the voices.

A film which uses a similar technique to this is Trainspotting which introduces the entire theme of the film in the opening through a voiceover;