Voice-over is an important public speaking skill. This harkens back to 19 years at PCHS
Giving Voice
Matching Voice &
Visuals
Is Key
Voice-over uses public speaking and writing to help visualize with images. The tone in these above videos tries matching the spirit of the sequences. Doing VO for images or products is a great exercise in expressiveness.
Working with students to produce a TV news show for 19 years at Polk County High School resulted in a Shutterfly share site that continued to show some 200 videos until share sites were eliminated in March 2023. About 160 of these videos were transferred to this site on the tab "Tracks." Some of these use VO like the three videos above and the two videos directly below.
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This first VO and interview story was on the Academic Recovery Center that was produced out of an old renovated house just off campus.
The second story was on a popular sport under a popular coach at PCHS.
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The above video is just under half the original length of a creative and health conscious product of ORL Productions in 2005. In the words of creator Ben Lounsbury, it began as his hobby as an ear, nose and throat physician "who made funny movies for hospital Christmas parties." He named the 'production company' Otorhinolounsburgology Productions after his specialty (otorhinolaryngology). This mouthful of a name was abbreviated to ORL Productions to make life easier for everyone.
"The first ORL movie intended for a wider audience was 'Why Don't We Do It In Our Sleeves?' It was Dr. Lounsbury's answer to the lack of response he saw during the bird flu scare when authorities were trying to teach hygienic coughing and sneezing. It has been a huge success because it is entertaining AND it works! People of all ages change the way they cough and sneeze as a result of watching the video." You can see the implications, especially post-COVID.
Way back in the 1980's, this assortment of characters was projected on a rear projection screen to help tell the well-known story of "A Christmas Carol." A readers' theatre company would deliver the lines while the images were projected to suggest the costuming and setting. Even this for Stan Coss was a type of voice-over, as the voice was the primary instrument to match and give balance to what he visualized with slides on the screen.