Adding a Voice Over

Adding a Voice Over

Originally in our thriller we had decided to rely on an opening song which would engage the audience with our lead more as it would signify what she was listening to through her headphones.
Since we then decided to cut the beginning of our original piece, we considered adding a voice over at the end of the final thriller as it was only supposed to be an opening and would create another storyline that could possibly continue on the story.
It would also show that several others are also looking for our lead, we first created the idea of her mother but instead changed it to her sister because of the age of our voices, since we wanted it to be more convincing. We introduced the voice-over to make it more convincing that someone was looking for our lead.

Since our new character was going to be talking to the police, we wanted it to sound as official as possible, by watching several scenes of this from TV shows we were able to come up with a similar script that we could use as a voice over for our final piece.

This is the script we used;

Police; This is Emergency…

Sister; Police

Police; What’s your emergency?

Sister; I found a…my brothers body… he’s been killed…please help me!

Police; Address please

Sister; Give Address

Police; Police are on their way…Were you there when this happened?

Sister; No I came home and found him here… 

Police; Can you tell me where you found the body?

Sister; On the sofa…I didn’t realise…his throat is slit…my sisters missing…she should be home! Her phones off…what if she’s…please come, she could be missing!

Police; Where do you think she could be?

Sister; She should be at home! The doors open, Jacks dead…

Police; Stay on the line until the police get there please.

Sister; Hurry…

We tried to make our script and voice over as authentic as possible as though this was a conversation really going on, to try and ensure it was as real as possible, we recorded it straight of the phone and had the two speakers in different rooms to prevent an echo.

We then needed to edit the voice over, without the laughter and long pauses to make it sound more serious and realistic.