Voice Over

voice over

We run a successful voice over talent agency. We source, manage and direct native Cantonese, Mandarin and English-speaking voice-over actors, including adults and children. Casting services and tape samples are available to help you select the right voices for your voice over needs. Based in Hong Kong SAR, China, and established for well over 10 years, we have an extensive network and exclusive contracts with many native Cantonese and Putonghua-speaking voice over actors. Our voice over talent database includes famous voices, drama-trained actors and impersonators. Casting service and tape samples are also available.

What is Voice Over

The voice over of a film, television programme, or advertisements consists of words who are spoken by someone who is not seen.

Voice over is a term in filmmaking and is used to describe the technique by which a filmmaker places the sound of a human voice (or voices) over images shown on the screen. These sounds may or may not be related to the images being shown. Sometimes voice over can create ironic counterpoint with the images being shown; also, sometimes voice-overs can be random voices not directly connected to the people seen on the screen.

Thus, the voice over becomes the narration that is played on top of a video segment, usually with the audio for that segment muted or lowered - or not existing at all in the case of many documentary films.

In works of fiction, the voice over is often by a character reflecting back on his or her past, or by a person external to the story who usually has a more complete knowledge of the events in the film than the other characters. Also, directors may add a voice-over late in the production because the plot or a character's motivation isn't clear.

Voice over has many applications in non-fiction as well. Television news is often presented as a series of video clips of newsworthy events, with voice over by the reporters describing the significance of the scenes being presented; these are interspersed with straight video of the news anchors describing stories for which video is not shown. Live sports broadcasts are usually shown as extensive voice over by expert announcers over video of the sporting event. Game shows formerly made extensive use of voice overs to introduce contestants and describe available or awarded prizes, but this technique has diminished as shows have moved toward predominantly cash prizes.

Voice over may be spoken by someone who also appears on-screen in other segments or it may be performed by a specialist voice actor. Voice-over is also commonly referred to as "off camera" commentary.

What is Bad Voice Over

Getting the right voice over and sound mixing in a film of any kind is crucial to getting the message across, but so many are badly done. With poor quality translations, out of sync dubbing, and bad sound mixing, the results are sometimes funny - even when they're not supposed to be.

Click for a funny Bruce Lee voice over video and see what happens if sound goes wrong.

IF IT’S TO DO WITH SOUND, WE CAN HELP. FROM PROFESSIONAL VOICE OVER TO SOUND MIXING, WE SPEAK THE RIGHT LANGUAGE WHEN IT COMES TO QUALITY.

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