tones of the voice
This three minute, 50 second video was featured as a web extra to accompany a story about seahorses in the January 2009 issue of Mālamalama online.
My job was to coordinate the production, do the interviews, edit the spoken audio and when we didn’t have all of what we needed, to do some narrative voice-over. The decision to add the voice-over was last-minute and it ended up being recorded in an empty office with leftover fake Xmas snow used as sound insulation(?!).
This web extra has had over 400 views on Vimeo so far; that’s the version embedded into the story, but you have to go to Vimeo to see the glorious HD version. We used Vimeo because we were having some problems uploading to our Mālamalama YouTube channel. Now YouTube is cooperating, so I’ve embedded the HD version here.
Splitting our views between different video hosts is obviously not ideal. YouTube is less elegant than Vimeo, but it has a *much* larger community. Vimeo looks awesome, and for a small fee, we’d be allowed to embed HD video on our site, but no decision has been made yet.
I welcome any feedback and opinions on the issue of video hosting and playback.
21/01/2009 at 8:16 pm Permalink
Freakin glorious HD looks great. Good job on the edit and smooth transitions. You can hear the acoustics of the empty office, gives your voice that NPR tonal quality. Nice job all around.
22/01/2009 at 12:19 pm Permalink
oh no, nasal & NPR??
http://www.hulu.com/watch/4156/saturday-night-live-nprs-delicious-dish-schweddy-balls
I’ll work on that lol
thx Scott! coming from a radio guy, I rly appreciate the feedback and will pass on your compliments to the production team!