Custom Theater Intro Voice Over

[mheadroom]

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Files are ready

The files are ready but the discs won't be shipped until Tuesday.

A number of people have asked for downloads so I purchased some hosting anf put the files online.

If you would like to download the files now rather than wait for the CD drop me a line and I'll send you the download info.

If you request the download that means you won't get the CD.

The files are the same either way.

Here's a sample of slapping together a few different lines
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I'm currently working to have a custom trailer produced and wanted to get a nice voiceover made for it. Since studio time is by ther hour it's kinda crazy

to have 3 lines spoken and pay though the nose so i had an idea. Why not have him read a bunch of lines.

So here's my question. If I decide to move forward, would people be in to pitching in together so a bunch of us could get a read done?

I'm figuring we could also have him read some other theater oriented stuff like. "Please take you seats the show is about to begin" and "Welcome to the XYZ

theater" etc.

Here's a demo clip of the guy I want to use

Demo Clip

Let me know what you guys think.


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Flosston Paradise
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The Clews Home Theater
The Clews Theater
The Colleton's Home Theater (call-et-un)
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The Dworek Family Theater
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The Falzon Family Theater (fal-zun)
The Fortinplex Cinematron
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The Haataja's (See Wav File)
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The Holtz Family Theater (pronounced like the Notre Dame Coach)
The Jedi Theater
The Klein Family Theater
The Logan Family Theater
The Meyer Family Theater
The Mickelodeon Theater
The Miller Family Theater
The Movie Loft
The Network23 Theater
The Ovsak Family (pronounced Oh-Shock, no pause between syllables and the v is totally silent)
The Patrick Family Theater
The Rike Home Theater Experience
The Schiff family theater
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The Sheahan Home Theatre (See Mp3 - Shee-en)
The Sugarshack Singleplex
The Sunny Glen Theater
The Van Drunen Family Theatre (pronounced "Drew-nin")
The War Room
The Whiting Family Theater (white-ing)
The Whitley Home Theater (whit-lee)
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The Network 23 Theater is happy to present our feature presentation.
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Welcome to the Sunny Glen Theater, we hope you enjoy the show.
Welcome to the Whitley Home Theater (whit-lee)
Welcome to the Willis Home Theater
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We're green. Super Green.
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by the motion picture association of America.
Christmas
Due to the violent content, material may be unsuitable for some viewers
Good afternoon.
Good evening.
Good morning.
Good night.
Goodbye.
Happy Birthday!
Happy Holidays
Have a great day.
Have a safe trip home.
Help your self to...
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In case of an emergency, please use the side exit
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Our Partners
Parental guidance is suggested
Party
Prepared especially for you.
Presented in..,
Proudly presents...
Reserve this Theater for your next Birthday Party.
The following film is intended for a mature audience.
The following home movie has not been rated.
The Mail Has Arrived
The time is…
This movie has been rated G
This movie has been rated NC-17
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This movie has been rated R
We would like to wish you a happy birthday.

Absolutely no cell phones allowed!
As a courtesy to all in attendance today...
Please refrain from smoking or talking during our feature presentation.
Please refrain from talking during our feature presentation.
Please turn off all cell phones, pagers, and beepers.
Please turn off your cell phones.

A brief intermission
Let's pause the movie now for a brief intermission.
Now it is time for an intermission.
We pause now for a brief intermission.
We will now have a short intermission, be back in 10 minutes for the remainder of the show

And now, for...
And now, our feature presentation...
Brace yourself for tonight's feature presentation.
Coming soon to...
Enjoy all the top hits scheduled for this theater.
Enjoy these Previews.
Fasten your seat belts and prepare yourself for an unbelievable ride.
is happy to present our feature presentation.
is proud to present our feature presentation.
Ladies and Gentlemen.
May we have your attention.
Movies are better than ever.
Now Sit Back, Relax, & Enjoy the Show.
OK Kids, grab your seats, the big show is about to begin.
On with the show
Our feature presentation.
Please direct your attention to the front of the room.
Please direct your attention to the screen. The movie is about to begin.
Please take you seats the show is about to begin.
Please take your seats.
Sit back, relax and enjoy the show.
Smoke, talk and relax in your own car!
Stay tuned for our feature presentation.
Stay tuned for tonight's feature presentation.
Stay tuned for tonight's movie feature.
The movie is about to begin.
The show starts in 1 minute
The show starts in 5 minutes
Tonight's movie contains sights and sounds so impressive, you'll wonder why we didn't charge you admission.
We have a wide selection of movies to choose from.
We hope you enjoy our feature presentation.
Welcome to our family theater.
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for coming.
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Our family thanks you for joining us tonight. Please have a safe trip home.
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Thank you for joining us tonight.
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[jkv]

He sounds good.

You should also record lines like:

"Please turn off your cell phones"

"Now it is time for an intermission"

"Have a safe trip home"

[mheadroom]

Cool. I'll add those too. I figure that we could compile a pretty complete list along with the customized stuff and end up with a KILLER disc and the cost would be low.

I'm looking at an even split on the cost for all the members. The quote was about $330. If 10 people show interest it's only about $30 each.

Everyone would get a copy of the generic stuff along with a few lines of custom stuff.

[ion-man]

I'm in

[Bclews]

I'm in, too. Just make sure that we own the copyright (work-for-hire).

[OKCHomeSeller]

You might also check out voice123.com. I haven't used them yet, but they will let voice talents bid jobs and send audition tapes - including scripts you send them. Don't know yet how their prices will look.

[mheadroom]

Originally Posted by Bclews

I'm in, too. Just make sure that we own the copyright (work-for-hire).

When I specked the Job I told the account exec that i wanted a full buyout. The use was personal with possible limited retail distribution. So we should be all set.

I don't want anyone to resell this. I just want a few people to pitch in so we can all get our own personal recording.

OKCHomeSeller: I was thinking of trying voice123 but when I got this quote I was pretty satisfied. I love the guys voice. He sound alot like Don LaFontaine. The quote is also pretty reasonable compared to alot of the voiceovers I've had done for work.

I think we shoudl be able to make the 10 people pretty easily. The cut off date is Aug 31st. We'll see what we have by then and finalize the script. How does that sound?

ANyone who has any suggestions for the "generic" content let me knon and I'll add it to the list.

[Tedd]

Interested!

Wav files?

[mheadroom]

WAVs it is.

I'm also going to put up a doc with the script as I add to it. If anyone knows what you want already, let me know and I'll add it. I'll post a link once i put the script up.

[mason]

I'm in too.

[roar]

I may be interested as well... but was wondering a couple of things...

Just thinking out loud really....

Is .wav is the 'best' source? I don't really know the best way to record audio is, as far as Bits and Khz and channels, and so forth, I've ripped enough cd's to know your settings can make quite a difference, but wouldn't know where to begin when asking someone how they record voices?

Would we be expecting a track with no back ground music/noise, so it would be a pure voice track with no white noise or interference in it for us to filter out?

What about pronunciation of our surnames if that was the name of our theatre?

[pgervais]

This sounds real cool. I'm making a new custom intro and would be interested especially to get a "Welcome to the Jedi Theater" or some other Star Wars type quotes.
Everyone might something like these:

"Enjoy these Previews"
"Now for our Feature Presentation"

[mheadroom]

Roar, all good questions. I'll answer them one by one.

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Most VOs are recorded 44.1 kHz Mono. These are given as WAVs with no compression. Now these are still digital files but here's the thing. In audio there is something called the Nyquist sampling theory. It says in order to accurately reproduce an analogue sound in digital format you need twice the sampling frequency. That means a 44.1 KHz sample can accurately produce sounds up to 22 KHz. The Narrators voice is well below this level so the 44.1 KHz WAVs will be more than adequate.

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In order to keep costs down, the delivered files will be unedited. That means any gasping or breathing will be included in the files. This should be removed. I will be removing this for my own use and I have no problem giving you copies of my files. As far as hiss goes, this recording will be taking place in a professional studio that records VOs all the time. Usually there is very little hiss and no background noise. The small bit of hiss can easily be removed using hiss removing tools found in most editing programs. Again I have no problem doing this for you if you wish.

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Pronunciation is a tough one. I would suggest you write out any hard to pronounce words phonetically and maybe even provide an audio recording that I can pass on to the narrator. I will be personally patched into the session as it takes place in order to make sure the narrator gets it right.

[roar]

Great answers and thanks for the quick reply, for approx. $30 can't see how I could say no

If you are starting a group mailing list or pm list feel free to include me. I figure I would send you a recording of how I'd like my theatre name pronounced for sure, not that it is trickey or anything, but if you're going to get this done you might as well get it done right... right?

[mheadroom]

I just added the script so far to the original post. I will continue to update this as we go along.

If you have any suggestions or have decided on the custom lines you want let me know what they are and I'll add them.

[mheadroom]

Best bet is anyone who is interested should drop me an email. I've set up a special email address just for this project.

htvoiceover{at}gmail{dot com}

You can also send the samples of pronunciation to this email address.

Originally Posted by roar

If you are starting a group mailing list or pm list feel free to include me. I figure I would send you a recording of how I'd like my theatre name pronounced for sure, not that it is trickey or anything, but if you're going to get this done you might as well get it done right... right?

[HTScotty]

Oh dude, I am so IN on this one. Let me get with my wife to find out what we'll want to have recorded and I'll send you an email. Thanks!

Scotty

[Chiahead]

with all the numbers you have in the script, you might want 21st - 29th and 31st, in case you want dates to be made or something like that.

Looks like a cool project, good luck with it.

[mheadroom]

I was thinking you could slug "20" and "1st" together for 21st. In the end depending on the total number of participants, I may just have him read them all.

BTW the Record date has been set for September the 8th. It looks like we will have enough people so I scheduled the read.

[roar]

What about 'Happy Birthday' and your kid(s) name? How many 'custom' bites would each person get? If there is only 10 people in on the buy you think you may have time for the family members names as well as the name of the home theatre?

It would be nice to be able to have a custom intro for my childs birthday party. (My daughter by the way is 11 months now, so she won't be having birthday parties in the home theatre for some time, but I was thinking it might be neat)

[MikeRich]

please count me in as well. let me know what I need to do to add my name to the list.

[mheadroom]

Roar,

That's a great idea.

Here's an arbitrary guideline. Each person can have their theater name plus about 30 words to be used as you see fit. If you need a few more that's fine just don't go overboard.

I say we limit this to 16 people or Aug 31st, which ever comes first. With 16 people the cost is about $20.

Once we reach the 31st or 16 people I will get the final quote for the project and determine the exact cost for each person.

How does this sound?

[actionPlant]

Sounds really, really cool. I'd love to get in on this if you aren't full already. mheadroom, tried to email you and it failed.

[mheadroom]

I added a list of participants on the original post. I only added those who explicitly said they wanted in. If you name isn't on the list and you want in, let me know.

[pgervais]

Thought of another one everyone might like

"Now Sit Back, Relax, & Enjoy the Show"

[pgervais]

I suggested "Enjoy these previews" yesterday but a better way to word it for everyone might be

"Coming soon to the X Theater" or something along those lines

[R_Willis]

...if you want to get even more people in, you could have him do some sounds for home automation stuff too.... He could do them in a more mono-tone serious voice.

-car in driveway
-mail has arrived
-somone rang the doorbell
-phone is ringing
-laundry is done
-take out the trash today
-alarm has been set
-all lights off
-all lights on
-.....and on....and on....and on....

Many people use voice announcements in their home-automation systems.

Just an idea I figured I'd throw out.

[latntekky]

IM SO IN ON THIS.
i was actually looking at a generic voiceover cd on the net.
This is much better due to the custom announcements.
best 20$ ill ever spend.

now for some automation software

[mheadroom]

The autpomation idea is kinda neat. Is anyone on the list interested in this too? If so we can add it and see what it does to the price. Right now we're looking at about $20-$30 per person and only a few more spots left.

If fill the spots I amy try and move the read up to Aug 25th. Would this work for everyone or would the 7th be better?

[actionPlant]

Hey, the sooner the better, I'm excited now.

I'd like to email you my little custom line but the email came back with a bad address. And yes, I changed the dot to an actual dot, etc. ??