I was tasked with creating the sound that guides the viewer through the beginning of this documentary. I voice acted as the documentary presenter, I was inspired by David Attenborough from documentaries such as Blue Planet and Planet Earth but the writing was inspired by the opening cutscenes from the Little Big Planet games, these openings feature the voice of Stephen Fry along with writing that speaks of creativity and imagination.
These opening monologues are usually accompanied by grand orchestral music pieces which really help set the atmosphere. Once I had obtained inspiration, I wrote a script that gave a run down of how the world operates whilst making it seem extraordinarily interesting. I wrote the script in Celtx and I had to make sure that it stayed in the time limit of 30-60 seconds.
Here is the script.
Once I had the script written, Matthew brought a blue snowball microphone in and we recorded the voice over in a quiet space.
I recorded the sound to audacity where I added effects such as changing the pitch of my voice to sound more booming. I added a royalty free orchestral track in the background and exported the sound so Matthew could use it in the final edit. (the sound can be heard in the animatic blog post)
These opening monologues are usually accompanied by grand orchestral music pieces which really help set the atmosphere. Once I had obtained inspiration, I wrote a script that gave a run down of how the world operates whilst making it seem extraordinarily interesting. I wrote the script in Celtx and I had to make sure that it stayed in the time limit of 30-60 seconds.
Here is the script.
Once I had the script written, Matthew brought a blue snowball microphone in and we recorded the voice over in a quiet space.
I recorded the sound to audacity where I added effects such as changing the pitch of my voice to sound more booming. I added a royalty free orchestral track in the background and exported the sound so Matthew could use it in the final edit. (the sound can be heard in the animatic blog post)

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