The voiceovers were the thing that we were all most anxious about, as it was seen as the 'make-or-break' of our film opening. We needed them to link the story together, and add more elements of real life film into it. Fortunately for us, we were able to make this to be somewhat of a success. The actaul recording of the voicovers was something that proved to be difficult, we needed to find a quiet area whereby we could record without any background noise. We needed to script the speech, and ensure that it would fit in with the timings for it. For some parts we even had to try a bit of lip-synching, which proved to be somewhat of a challenge.
The lipsynching was quite clearly the most diffucult for us to do, but needed to be done because the speech could not be heard on the film due to background noise (which we failed to acknowledge when filming). We managed to do it by getting the boys to watch the actual video of the film and talking at the same time, so that they could get a sense of the time and tone in which it needed to be spoken in. However, we had to film this material on a phone camera in order to take it away to a quiet place, so they tried their best to work with this and talk in time the best they could with the video. It proved to be very difficult to do without the precence of timer, and ended up recording it several times in order to make it to the best standard we could - it was very much a situation of trial and error. In the finished piece you can tell where we have added the lip-synch as it is unaturally loud and is ever so slightly out of time with the mouth movements of the actors - however this only occurs once, so we weren't too dissapointed with our efforts.
All in all, our voice overs worked pretty well. I found that they were extremely useful in explaining our characters background whilst there was comedy happening on the screen. It complimented the action perfectly. Our biggest worry was how many we needed, we did not want it to seem crowded as it would have clashed at parts. Luckily this was not a problem, because all sound aspects are managable - this includes the volume, which meant that the background music could be turned down when the voice overs occured in order for them to be heard better.
Some of our voiceovers needed to be recorded again, thi is because the boom mic managed to pick up a lot of unwanted sounds, but this could be due to the fact that we had never used one before, therefore were not skilled with it. This was a bit of a hassel to fix, but needed to be done in order to make it more proffesional and neat.
One of the most frustrating occurances during the editing process was the tendancy of the editing programme we used to crash half way through use, and not auto-save any progress we had made. It is unsure to us whether this is due to a fault in the software or hardware failure, but either way it was unfixable during the editing period and certainly slowed us down. We needed to remember to save our work every couple of minutes or so, as it was known to crash at any unpredicatble point. But unfortunately, this was learnt the hard way after occasions where we hd completed copious amounts of editing which was then lost due to it. This usually led to us losing approximantely 20 minutes of editing time, and did become very repetitive as we had to repeat some processes over and over again. We tried everything to fix the programme, including rebooting the system and getting help of the computer technician. Nothing worked, so we had to complete our work this way for the entire time.
With the voiceover we had to try and limit what we said so it lasted around 10 seconds, because anymore time would have led to a clash with other film imagery and would be unrelated to the point being said.
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