{"id":86,"date":"2013-05-02T04:25:34","date_gmt":"2013-05-02T04:25:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.voiceovergurus.com\/guru_blog\/?p=86"},"modified":"2013-07-24T21:49:55","modified_gmt":"2013-07-24T21:49:55","slug":"voice-over-or-under","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/voiceovergurus.com\/guru_blog\/voice-over-or-under\/","title":{"rendered":"Voice Over or Under?"},"content":{"rendered":"

We have taken it as gospel since it\u2019s been used \u2013 voiceover: a voice speaking over a set of moving pictures that narrates or accompanies the scene(s) playing out.\u00a0 But why?\u00a0 Why have we decided this voice is over the picture?\u00a0 Is it more important than the picture?\u00a0 Is it less?\u00a0 Is it serving the actor to think of the voice as being \u201cabove\u201d and \u201cover\u201d all else in the spot?\u00a0 Only just a few years ago I stopped taking words at face value and really started looking at them.\u00a0 Embarrassingly, I didn\u2019t even realize the word breakfast was more than just a random cocktail of letters, that it actually represented itself so perfectly \u2013 break fast.\u00a0 Revelation!\u00a0 Cool!\u00a0 Then being made fun of by my husband.\u00a0 But not all words were created so perfectly.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

I would say at times the definition is true, and the use of voiceover is just right.\u00a0 But have you heard a narration voice over lately?\u00a0 Most of the greatest narrators truly understand the art of the voice under.\u00a0 Their subtlety is in letting the image come first.\u00a0 A voice can be powerful, no doubt, but a picture can often speak a thousand words, yes?\u00a0 They understand they are accompanying the picture, captioning it, putting a small pointer stick to it.\u00a0 Small being the key word here.\u00a0 No one enjoys hearing shouting.\u00a0 An over the top read sounds false, as we instantly recognize it is a \u201cperformance.\u201d\u00a0 Not so with the voice \u201cunder.\u201d\u00a0 It speaks to us like a light breeze.\u00a0 It\u2019s just what our ears need.\u00a0 It\u2019s just what the picture needs. \u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Next time you find yourself practicing any voice over script (not just narration), trying giving it the voice-under treatment.\u00a0 For some inspiration on just what that sounds like and to get a little more in-depth understanding of it, check out this past voiceover blog on <\/span><\/span><\/span>Voiceover Narration Technique<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/a>.\u00a0 Next time you will see that the best way to get over a tricky read is to get under it.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

We have taken it as gospel since it\u2019s been used \u2013 voiceover: a voice speaking over a set of moving pictures that narrates or accompanies the scene(s) playing out.\u00a0 But why?\u00a0 Why have we decided this voice is over the picture?\u00a0 Is it more important than the picture?\u00a0 Is it less?\u00a0 Is it serving the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-86","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-voice-over-gurus-blog"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/voiceovergurus.com\/guru_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/voiceovergurus.com\/guru_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/voiceovergurus.com\/guru_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voiceovergurus.com\/guru_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voiceovergurus.com\/guru_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=86"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/voiceovergurus.com\/guru_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":113,"href":"https:\/\/voiceovergurus.com\/guru_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86\/revisions\/113"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/voiceovergurus.com\/guru_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=86"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voiceovergurus.com\/guru_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=86"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voiceovergurus.com\/guru_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=86"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}