The Voice Over Script
Posted on December 15, 2010
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Scripts are remarkably unremarkable. as a voice over generally you are paid not according to the amount you read,but rather just hired by the hour. So it’s not uncommon at the BBC to arrive, have a cup of tea, sit and chat to the producer, pop in the voice booth, say ” This Saturday on BBC1″ and you are more or less done. they ar not all that easy but some are.
there seems to be an unwritten rule that the player and more high end the voice over job, the less sophisticated the script you get to read is. So the biggest projects like the global voice over campaign for Sony, you are handed literally the back of something else with the line scribbled on it in pencil. Or you end up reading a post it note. I have no idea why this is, but for some reason what exactly you say seems to be very fluid when you reach the highest echelons.
Some scripts are just awful. I remember reading a video narration for a piece of software made by a company in Italy. The script was basically about twenty pages of the user manual, which at the best of times is disarmingly hard to read. to make matters worse, the producer spoke very very little English and the script had been translated by various people, at various times including a section which I assume was translated by a PC based piece of translation software. The rest, I’ll leave to your imagination.
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