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Re: Documentary Voiceover
by Pixel Monkey on Oct 30, 2007 at 5:32:21 pm

Done many national PBS docs like this:

Preproduction:
- transcribe interviews
- organize them on-paper into the best story possible
- write basic narration to fill in the holes and make transitions

In Editing:
- create an "Interview Assembly" (cut interviews together to the script)
- producer grabs the microphone and creates "scratch" narration (It's important to have the scriptwriter - usually the producer - do this because he/she uses the inflections and pacing that they hear intheir head when writing it).
- Editor places this scratch narr in proper places
- Add B-Roll and pacing
- contract your professional narrator and send him/her rough-cut script
- constantly rewrite narration and revoice it as you edit
- schedule narrator for the Monday of the week you're planning to be in picture-lock
- Picture-lock on Friday, after having laid-in new narration on Thursday.



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