Creating Voice Overs For The Trailer

In the first screen shot it is named 'shari sinister voice'. The role that I had as part of the voice overs was to say 'you thought you could get rid of me' and 'you should've listened to your mother'. I recorded both of them in different voice effects as my normal voice didn't fit well with the sinister voice we were looking for. The helium one suited better for the 'you should've listened to your mother' one as it sounded like a little girl and little girls always appear creepy in horror movies. The effect I put on the 'you thought you could get rid of me' phrase was ambient vocals. This particular effect put an echo to my voice and made it sound more sinister. We were thinking of including this in the trailer when the final girl is in a scene, it's meant to be a taunting message from the villain to the victim. I played around with every single effect to see which was best suited for each phase and finally came to a decision. The male vocal effects wouldn't of been the best to use as for our horror trailer, there are no males starring in it, only females. I wanted to create really short phases to keep the audience engaged but I didn't want it too long to the point where the audience found it hard to keep up. There had to be a right balance as if the phase was too short, the audience may forget what had been said. I figured I should have minimum 6 words in the phase and maximum 9, luckily both phases I thought of had either 6 words or 8 words so I kept within the limits. I used GarageBand to create the voices and then it was transported onto a memory card so that we were able to open it in Adobe Premiere 6, it was very quick and easy.

This is another voice over that was created in GarageBand. This time the voice over was a conversation between Sharna and myself to warn her about going to the grave. I was playing the mother and it was a message that would later foreshadow events. The voice over I recorded said 'remember what I said, don't go to the place' and she replies 'yes mum'. My group and I decided to say 'that place' instead of grave so that it was ambiguous towards the audience, the mother could've been talking about anywhere and the audience wouldn't get a glimpse of where she was talking about until a few seconds later in the trailer. If the conversation was to be placed in the trailer, we all decided that it would go at the beginning to start off the scene. It would link with the other voice over recorded where it said 'you should've listened to your mother'. It would also make a connection to the narrative as bad things start to happen to Riley as she's disobeyed her mother and gone to a grave. We aren't sure whether to include the voice overs at all in the trailer but t was better to record them just in case we wanted to include them.