Use of Sounds and Silence - Documentary Narration

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Jack Kochen

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Description

Attenuation is not as important as hitting the proper sounds and silence for the subject matter, and any modifiers, to remain interesting.

Vocal Characteristics

Language

English

Voice Age

Young Adult (18-35)

Accents

North American (General) North American (US New England - Boston, Providence) North American (US New York, New Jersey, Bronx, Brooklyn)

Transcript

Note: Transcripts are generated using speech recognition software and may contain errors.
When one is narrating a documentary, it's very important that they not only get the attenuation that the person desires be it that of a teacher or that of an observer. Those were two examples right there. It's very important that someone makes use of silence in a documentary. The subject matter is almost always accompanied by silence. This brings the user away from the audio for half a second while still giving them the emphasis of it, but it brings them into the visual of the documentary. So it's not only important that a voice actor has the capability of reaching whatever attenuation the recipient wants in this case, even more so than narration. It's important that the voice actor hits silence and emphasis in a way that's both helpful to the user's attention but not being absurd.