0608 – Your Voice Mixed With Music

2022.08.31 - 0608 – Your Voice Mixed With Music

Music and rough cuts – commercials, commentaries, documentaries and so on, often have the voiceover second-tracked together to play over the top of a music score. The choice of music for a documentary, commercial or whatever sets the ‘emotional attitude’ of the whole piece: hope, fear, confidence, desire or optimism for example. So as a reader, it’s useful to know what that music is. That way you can adapt your style, attitude and pace to fit with its tone, and help the editor by hitting certain musical posts if that is needed.

·        Talking of which, the script may be written to hit specific points depending on what is happening on screen at that time, or to fit between on-tape sounds or dialogue. Therefore, even though a required duration for your link is good, having the actual video to ‘record to’ is better: it means you are likely to ‘feel’ the recording more, you will be more accurate, and you will save editing in the final mix. Failing that, a storyboard (a chronological series of images, with accompanying notes, of how a 'story' will play out, scene by scene, communicating the creative's vision), so you can better visualise what the concept is. 

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