Unit 38 Voiceover Evaluation

This assignment required me to create a voiceover to add mood and meaning to a scene of my choice. I chose to create one for a scene from the wire where a character called Omar is tracking down someone who owes him something. I first researched Omar’s character and found out that he doesn’t swear and that he is an orphan, two things which I kept in consideration when I created my voiceover. I used Microsoft Word to write the script. I then went on to record the voiceover using the voice memo app on an iPhone 6. I then combined it with the original video clip and edited them together in GarageBand to later be exported to a .mov file. I recorded my voiceover in an empty classroom. I believe my voiceover added some depth to the character that the scene doesn’t explain in itself. I let the audience know that he was an orphan as well as added some aspects that I created such as his love of western films. I did this because I feel that his duster coat makes him look similar to a modern day cowboy. It also makes the scene slightly lighter than it was originally as it makes the audience think about his more personal side. I made it so that the voiceover is him talking directly to the audience which also makes him seem more relatable to the audience as he is addressing them directly and revealing personal things about himself to them. This makes the audience feel closer to the character. I feel that the research that I performed on the character lead to a voiceover that was more true to the source material whilst also adding some of my own ideas.