. RECORDING A VOICE OVER

This voice over was created in garage band, with an exterior microphone and this audio clip is of myself and Shari conversing as the characters we are playing in the narrative.

A subversion of horror trailers that I identified in some cases are voice overs as they are normally used in trailers for either more dramatic films or those with little conventional imagery. We were initially not sure if we were going to include  a voice over, however if we were to place this anywhere is would have to be placed at the very beginning of our trailer with a range of  black screens. The recorded dialogue will play over it. The content of this conversation between Shari and myself, acted as a warning. The warning allows the audience to understand that there are underline obsessions that Riley has that lead to the events that follow in the trailer.

Shari played my Mother in the audio recording, a character that we identify as intelligent and full of wisdom, by my character not listening to the advice from her Mother the later events can be identified as expected. Shari was chosen as the voice of the Mother for this audio, because she had the correct tone and could portray the character of a ‘Mother’ justly. As the character of Riley it was expected that the audio would also include myself because I am her daughter, there is a sense of enigma can be identified here as the audience are unsure as to what is going to happen next, after the events of the phone call.

However we may decided not to include the voice over, as it adds an element of obscurity that is normally not included in horror trailers within the first few second. Conventionally the trailer starts with an equilibrium and because this phone call rivals the conventional element of an equilibrium we did not want it to be included, as it can be viewed as a clue to the coming events. The character of the mother warns me, and says “remember what I said, don’t go to that place”. The audience will probably be able to gather from this that she will definitely go into an environment that will result in her being harmed.