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LT: I can use narration and voice-overs in my videos.

Voice Overs

April is National Poetry month. The Academy of American Poets began this celebration in 1996. It is now the largest literary celebration in the world. You can even sign up for Poem-a-Day to get a free poem delivered to your email. There are a lot of activities for the month, especially in your English Classes. Mrs. Kissel has been known to hand out small pieces of paper with different poems to unsuspecting students, giving them all a "Poem in their Pocket".

Then we will learn how to do a proper voice over. This is a huge career that is popular more and more with the ability to work right from home. The artist will record their lines and then send the file to the editors. Famous actors lend their voices to animation characters, documentaries, TV shows and commercials.

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Watch the video below to hear from one of the most famous voice actors.

Assignment

  • Students will select a poem to narrate for this project from the list of poems or they can choose their own school appropriate poem.

  • Students will find videos that relate to the different lines and stanzas in the poem or film their own footage

  • Students will then put the videos in an editing program, add the poem text and then narrate the poem

  • Students will also create a credits page citing where they got their video and also who narrated their poem

  • Poems will be published to YouTube

  • Use Adobe Premiere or WeVideo as we have in past projects

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Pre-Production -

  • Choose your poem from this l list in Classroom

  • Analyze the poem and create a shot list based on the meaning of the words

  • Each line of the poem is a video.

  • Use Pexels or Pixabay to download videos that match the meaning of each line

  • Then use Pixabay music to download a song that fits the theme or mood of the poem.

  • We will edit in premiere

Production

Watch this video before recording the narration.​

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Record Narration

  • Get the script ready

  • Find a quiet place to record - not classroom

  • Use Voice memos, a camera, or a computer to record

  • Test record

  • Make sure to enunciate your words.

  • Speak slowly and clearly - do not mumble

  • Smile while talking

  • Do not stop if you mess up. Just pause and start the sentence again.

  • Record Narration 3 times all the way through

Editing

  • Add Narration to timeline and begin to add videos that fit with the words you are speaking

  • Once videos are added, add in text for the words you are saying.

  • Do not add more than one or two lines according to the text guidelines in classroom

  • Make sure text is on the screen long enough to read it.

  • Make sure all text fits on screen

  • Add correct punctuation & grammar to your text - if need, just copy and paste

  • Add in title slide and credits from Canva

  • Add in music and adjust audio to clearly hear the person speaking

Requirements

  • video is HORIZONTAL

  • Video length is to be between 60 seconds long minimum(not shorter, not longer).

  • Videos that fit each line - if 8 lines, 8 videos

  • Intro slide with title of poem and author

  • music that fits mood

  • voice over that is clear

  • each line of poem is typed and clearly visible over the video, easy to read

  • exported and turned in correctly

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