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What is Voiceover Narration and Who is the Narrator?

What is narration? What is a narrator? What is voice over narration? Good questions. Many young voice over actors and actresses start off in the business thinking they have to vonvey the whole story with their voices. Sometimes using bombastic voices, other times trying to be so intimate with their voice over narration that the story all but disappears.

You see, the words tell the story. The role of the voice over artist is to just pass the words through their mouth without judgement. As long as the meaning is in their head, the meaning is in their voice.

These days, narration covers everything from

Powerpoint presentations
Flash presentations
Corporate training videos
Documentaries
e-Learning programs
on-hold messages
Anything that needs to be narrated.

To change the voice narrator subject back to the original question posted by Lance, I found describing my narrating techniques best this way:

Languages
English (North American) and English (British and European).
Types of Recordings Offered
Commercials for radio, TV, radio imaging and other short recordings.
Documentaries, audiobooks, business presentations and other long
recordings. Dubbings and voice acting for TV, films, videogames, etc.
Phone and voice systems including on-hold messages.
Voice "Ages"
Young Adult, Middle Age, and Senior.
Equipment
ISDN, MP3/WAVE/AIFF, CD Overnight, Phone Patch, and Ftp.
Unions
AFTRA, SAG, and Non Union or Financial Core.
Dialects
New York, British (proper, goofy, regional), Cockney, Southern (Texan, Georgia, standard), French, Irish, Ivy League.
Experience
The Versatile Voice of Reason, Warmth & Authority direct from Hollywood!
CBS (promos), A.T. & T. (commercials, epcott character narration as Voice of God), Jack-In-The-Box (commercial, character, gay, effeminate, fruity caller), Honda (commercial, announcer, gruff army dude), Mercedes Benz (commercials, character, snooty, uptight, educated and refined),

Toyota (commercial, announcer, man's man, guys guy with gravel),
Lexus (commercial, announcer),
Chrystler (commercial, announcer),
Molson Golden (commercial, announcer - legal copy, fast talker),
Michelob (commercial, announcer),
THQ (commercials, campaign, announcer and characters including
Don Pardo, big voice),
Six Flags Magic Mountain (commercial, announcer, flat, nasal),
Dremel (commercial, announcer),
Pappa Murphy's (commercial, charcater - preacher, dramatic, emotional),
7-Eleven (commercial, character - Count Dracula),
Verizon Wireless (commercial, announcer, very friendly and warm),
Carl's Jr. (commercial, announcer),
One Bill (commercial, character - Mad Scientist),
Bayer-Gem (commercial, man on the street interviewer a la Steve Allen),
Quisic (narration, corporate, professional for marines),
Sports Club L.A. (Industrial narration, all business),
Music III Int'l (8 campaigns, announcers, characters - real to wacky),
STV (video game narration and characters - tough, military guys, old men, evil aliens),
Mars Advertising (commercial, announcer, fun, comedic),
AM/PM (commercial, announcer),
Federal Express (commercial, announcer),
FedEx (corporate instructional & tutorial),
Nextell (commercial, announcer),
Energizer (commercial, announcer, serious, aggressive),
Wondertech (commercial, announcer),
Stormriders (animation, charatcers, Frasier and Niles Crane, Thurston
Howel III types),
Univision (commercial, announcer, gen x),
Tidwell (on hold, narrator),
Royal Oaks (trailers and promos a la Don Lafontaine),
IEC (IVR and DRTV - Direct Response / CTA - Call to action),

plus I have voiced many political ads for both Democrats and Republicans, am known for my range with Automotive ads (some Auto Dealers prefer hard sell and high octane while others need a more mellow soft sell sound), and hundreds of other spots as well as cartoon and animated voices for the Cartoon Network and video games...
Also an on-camera actor who has appeared in "NYPD Blue" "ER" "Star Trek: Enterprise" "Las Vegas""90210" and many others. Training
20 years of professional experience in the largest radio, television, industrial, instructional, corporate video and infomercial market - Los Angeles. Additional Skills
I have extensive experience in all forms of narration, including medical terminology. As a narrator, I have voiced on hold messages and taken part in telephone recording and voicemail recordings. I also do a mean Don Pardo.
Additional Information
For additional information please go to http://www.myvoiceoverguy.com
Location
West Coast, South Bay, Hollywood, Los Angeles, L.A., LA, Burbank, San Diego, Southern California (United States)


Definitions of narrator on the Web: someone who tells a story . In fiction, a narrator is a voice or character who tells the story. The narrator generally can be divided into several types. The teller of a story. The narrator may be the author or a character in the story through whom the author speaks. Huckleberry Finn is the narrator of Mark Twain's The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. (See also narration and narrative.)

The implied voice relating the characters and the action of the plot to the implied reader. The narrator can be a character, which makes that narrator involved. If the narrator is not a character and takes a position of revealing information to the reader, that narrator is omniscient. An omniscient narrator can either take the reader inside the consciousness of the character, or is privileged, or can remain distant, or not privileged. A narrator that seems to be biased, misleading, provides faulty information or otherwise is not telling the whole story is said to be unreliable.

The personage who 'tells' the story in a narrative work. Like the persona, the narrator should not be confused with the author. It may also be useful for you to think about the difference between narrative, narration and the narrator. (In addition to the entry on point of view below, see also the section on point of view in the notes to lecture 11 of my Literary Stylistics module).

One who communicates a story. There are many varieties of narrators and categories of narration. The narrator inThe Lion often interrupts his own story to give his viewpoints and comments to the reader. The narrator should not be confused with the author. theliterarylink.com/definitions.html The person telling the story. This may be the author, assuming a full knowledge of characters and their feelings: this is an omniscient narrator. It might alternatively be a fictional character invented by the author. There may also be multiple narrators. You should always be prepared to make a clear distinction between Author, Narrator, and Character - even though in some texts these may be (or appear to be) the same. The person telling a story, also referred to as the persona.

One who narrates or tells, a story. A writer may choose to have a story told by a first person narrator, someone who is either a major or minor character. Or, a writer may choose to use a third person narrator, someone who is not in the story at all. Third person narrators are often omniscient, or "all knowing"- that is, they are able to enter into the minds of all the characters in the story. The agent who tells or "shows" a story. There are different narrative points of view. Some narratives are told in retrospect by a character employing a first-person perspective; as a narrator, he or she can be termed an internal narrator. Other narratives are told by a narrator external to the story, who may or may not refer to him- or herself as "I." Such external narrators can be omniscient, that is, have access to the minds of all the characters, or have limited mental access, being restricted to the inner view of, say, only one character. An external narrator, the person through whose voice or viewpoint the story is told. The author may choose a character from the story to act in this capacity, speaking in the first person as if he or she had been present during the action or at least aware of much of what was happening. The author herself may be the "omniscient narrator," a designation that refers to a nameless observer who knows about all the characters and has insight into their emotions, actions, and motivation. www.seniornet.org/php/default.php the character who "tells" the story. The speaker, the person who tells what happens in a poem or a story. The narratorÔs views and experiences may be those of the poet, but it would be a mistake to assume that this is always the case. There are many different sorts of narrator: a first person narrator who tells the story for himself or herself using the pronoun ÍIÔ. a third person narrator who tells a story about other people using the pronouns ÍheÔ, ÍsheÔ and ÍtheyÔ. an omniscient narrator who can tell the reader about everything in the story, including the thoughts and feelings of the person (named or unknown) who is telling a story

the voice of the speaker in a story the one telling the story. One who tells, or is assumed to be telling, the story in a given narrative. legends of the old plantation narrator

The voice and implied speaker of a fictional work, to be distinguished from the actual living author. For example, the narrator of Joyce's "Araby" is not James Joyce himself, but a literary fictional character created expressly to tell the story. Faulkner's "A Rose for Emily" contains a communal narrator, identified only as "we." See Point of view.

The person who tells the story.

The person or voice telling the story. The narrator can be a character in the story or a voice outside the action. See Point of view

the voice that fills in the details of the story by introducing scenes and revealing points of the story that cannot be made clear in other ways

NARRATION, Narrator

narration . Pennebaker, McElwee took from them a narration love for shooting with a narration handheld, 16mm film camera -- and narration shooting a narration lot. Unlike the narration more orthodox practitioners of verite, however, McElwee includes himself in the narration action; he interacts with the narration people he shoots (and narration often they are people he knows -- members of his family, and narration his friend and narration former teacher, of documentaries in particular, doesn't need an introduction. But here goes: has been making films for almost three decades -- documentaries that mingle the narration personal, the narration historical, the narration cultural and narration the narration political, into splendid cinematic stewpots. Trained under such cinema verite legends as Richard Leacock and narration D.A

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the narration spirited Charleen Swansea), asking and narration answering questions, involving himself in the narration action. And narration instead of constructing a narration story strictly from the narration amassed footage, with no added frills, McElwee narrates his films in his mildly twangy North Carolina drawl that sounds just a narration little bit like John Edwards. His thoughtful narration, at times halting, often funny, is the narration heart of his films, a narration ruminating thread that ties them together.

Watching and narration listening to a narration Ross McElwee film is like spending time with a narration very wise and narration unpretentious teacher - which he is, incidentally, at Harvard. They are journeys of discovery, at once personal and narration universal, and narration it is his talent that when we watch them, we feel like we are right there with him. McElwee's works include "Time Indefinite" and narration "Six O'Clock News," but the narration best known, and narration arguably the narration best, is 1986's "Sherman's March." In that work, McElwee travels south to follow the narration devastating route of Union General William Tecumseh Sherman, while trying to find a narration girlfriend. His romantic results are mixed, at best, but the narration people he meets along the narration way -- New Southerners, Old Southerners, Burt Reynolds -- are remarkable and narration strange and narration utterly memorable.

McElwee's latest effort, the narration smartly entertaining "Bright Leaves," follows a narration similar path, as the narration filmmaker returns to the narration tobacco country of North Carolina where he grew up. He tries to make sense of the narration tobacco indieWIRE: The narration first thing I want to tell you is, I think you have a narration marvelous voice.
Ross McElwee: Well, you'd be the narration better judge of that. I have no sense as to my own voice. Which I guess is funny, because my films depend heavily upon my voice, and narration I always need somebody in the narration recording booth with me when I'm recording the narration final version, because I can't tell.
iW: It is the narration most salient quality in your work, it's so recognizable. Could you talk about the narration creative decision to make that a narration part of your work?
McElwee: Well, clearly I'm not the narration first person to use voice-over narration in a narration industry, particularly as it relates to his own family (McElwee's great-grandfather developed the narration formula for Durham Bull tobacco), and narration tackles the narration knotty issue of what it means to grow something that is a narration known health hazard. Along the narration way, he meditates on the narration ideas of family and narration time and narration mortality and narration film, and narration how these all might relate to each other. If "Bright Leaves" sounds hard to summarize, it is, if only because McElwee takes us in so many pleasing, unexpected directions.

Nick Poppy spoke with Ross McElwee about the narration filmmaker's influences, first-person documentaries and narration the narration dying medium of film. documentary. In fact, it's long been the narration staple of documentaries. Since sound documentaries came in, we've always had narrators explaining things to us, telling us things, and narration I think initially, it was a narration convention I really wanted to avoid, voice-over narration. I was very influenced by and narration appreciative of the narration films of people like Fred Wiseman

NARRATION. Pennebaker, the narration Maysles brothers, that whole group of wonderful cinema verite filmmakers who for the narration most part managed to eschew the narration use of voice-over narration. And narration it seemed to me there was something admirable about allowing the narration visual to be visual, allowing film to stand, by virtue of its visual representation of the narration world, not by spoken interpretation of the narration events that were unfolding in front of the narration camera. But as time went on, an old inclination I had when I was in high school and narration later on in college - that is, to be a narration writer - kept coming back to me. I kept wanting to interpret verbally what I was seeing, and narration yet felt an allegiance to cinema verite and narration sort of kept myself from doing it for my first few (many, many) films. But for me, anyway, a narration dissatisfaction began to arise with the narration notion of simply observing the narration world silently from behind a narration camera.

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