#voice over narration

[lifewithaview]

Blake Lively and Michiel Huisman in "The Age of Adaline" (2015)

After miraculously remaining 29 years old for almost eight decades, Adaline Bowman has lived a solitary existence, never allowing herself to get close to anyone who might reveal her secret. But a chance encounter with charismatic philanthropist Ellis Jones reignites her passion for life and romance. When a weekend with his parents threatens to uncover the truth, Adaline makes a decision that will change her life forever.

#The Age of Adaline #2015 #film #Blake Lively #Michiel Huisman #drama #fantasy #romance #aging #San Francisco #life #history #archives #identity #secrets #voice over narration #curiosity #love #just rewatched

[peterabrahamvo]

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#voice over narration #explainer video voice over #voice over for explainer video #corporate explainer videos #create explainer video

[hoezier]

There's something at the tip of my tongue about the parallels between Jackie and Wilson and Who We Are

How the narrator of Jackie and Wilson wants to run away with a woman that he's carved out of his imagination based on a brief interaction. How they would try the world, but good god it wasn't for them. So they run away from it into a fantasy world where they live by their own rules.

And then comes the narrator of Who We Are, who dreamt his whole life of finding someone who would hold him like water or like a knife, only to find that running away from the world will only get them so far, since "the hardest part is who we are". And only to find out that the "phantom life" he's fantasized about is actually just that: a phantom. And its absence sharpens like a knife

#hozier #sahar stfu about hozier #I'm aware that on the surface these songs are not really about the same thing #but there's something about the way that j&w narrator craves the fantasy he speaks of #that reminds me so much of the voice of Who We Are who thinks he realizes the fantasy only to watch it become a nightmare #and the contrast between the dream-fuelled lyrics of J&W that evoke daring adventures on the wide opened desert #and the sharp concise biting lyrics of who we are sung in tired resignation #and followed by near-wailing at the end #that just sticks out to me so much #it's like the whole of Unreal Unearth is just a sequence of the various voices of the self-titled album coming back #sometimes disillusioned #sometimes exhausted #sometimes resigned #sometimes wise #sometimes at peeace #sometime enraged #to sing about their most bitter disappointments and the harshest lessons they've learned over the years #and I can't stop thinking about it

[birdmitosis]

You know how you can get the "you're special" conversation with the Narrator in the various Chapter IIs? Well, I got very curious about everyone's responses to that, and some of these are very interesting...

At its base, the conversation goes like this:

And then whatever other voice you have with you chimes in after that. There are a few exceptions that I'll cover because I find them interesting, but the ones that follow this pattern are:

Broken

Cheated

Hunted

Opportunist

Skeptic

Smitten

(Some of the above have further back-and-forth with the Narrator, but that's a bit outside the point of this post!)

There are a few variations that really intrigue me, though...

One just changes up the order slightly, nothing else, but I think even this simple change still has some character implication to it:

Stubborn

Which makes Stubborn, interestingly, one of the only ones who buys into that as easily as Hero, possibly the only one (but, funnily enough, possibly not...).

On the other hand, changing up the formula drastically:

Paranoid

Paranoid doesn't even let Hero respond before responding himself, and I only showed the rest of the conversation to show that the Narrator has no chance at all to deliver his "Of course you're special. Why else would you be here?" lines -- he's put on the back foot by Paranoid's suspicions, and even when he tries to be soothing and encouraging again, Paranoid shuts that down too. If Stubborn is the most receptive, Paranoid may very well be the least.

Another major variation, which I find very interesting and can't even quite put my finger on why I find it so interesting (except that I like Cold so much):

Cold

Like Stubborn, Cold speaks up right after Hero's response before the Narrator can get into his own "Of course you're special" lines, and like Stubborn, it's in a way that seems surprisingly receptive. He actually takes the place of the Narrator responding with that, actually -- the Narrator doesn't say those lines at all, making this the only other time other than with Paranoid that he doesn't.

And the final variation...

Contrarian

There are no screencaps for this. Because interestingly, I don't think you even can get this sequence with Contrarian. Or if you can, I wasn't able to figure out how. You can't get to any of that questioning at all from what I'm able to tell.

And I think Contrarian would enjoy knowing that he's the most uniquely disruptive out of all of them.

#i put the variations under a cut because the post was already long #it's over twice as long with the cut included #slay the princess #slay the princess spoilers #the voices #the narrator #voice of the hero #voice of the broken #voice of the cheated #voice of the opportunist #voice of the skeptic #voice of the smitten #voice of the stubborn #voice of the paranoid #voice of the cold #voice of the contrarian #i admit i looked all of this up for praise kink purposes #and i find it very funny that the three who seem potentially the most susceptible to praise are hero stubborn and cold of all people #long post #you're special

[oodlesodoodles]

A wip that im probably not going to finish.

#kim kitsuragi #Ptsd #Hes listening to really tense news or an intense radio play and you startle him #He notices and stops as soon as he pats his side but the action to go over there is hard wired at this point #He would never shoot you.... On purpose #Halfass narrator voice lol

[lesbiangracehanson]

please don’t mind me, i’ve just watched the voyager conspiracy for the first time ha ha ahaha

#olivia watches voyager #j7 #kathryn janeway #seven of nine #star trek voyager #im sorry but what the fuck was THAT. the MOST absurdly romantic scene ever??? #their voices got SOOOO soft + quiet #the music was swelling in the background #they’re narrating their relationship TOGETHER #seven drops the force field + janeway walks over to her + kneels down in her front SOOOO closely #my god….

[xxautumnivyxx]

Role Announcement!

Super excited to have gotten to lend my voice to this project along with phenomenal talent. Absolutely WILD.

#role announcement #VO #dub #autumn ivy #autumnivy #cosplayer #the bone collector #narrator #actor #costumer #amazon #alternative #cosplay #voice over #voice acting #ninja vs shark

[sexhaver]

lmfao it turns out Firmament used AI tools to modulate human voiceovers and muss up some textures and now kickstarter backers are malding and asking for their money back. and news outlets are treating those requests like they aren't ridiculous

#kickstarter backers wanting their money back for entirely baseless reasons is always funny but this is up there #the only salient complaint listed is that the human VA for the narrator isn't credited by name #and the studio's rebuttal is that the VA chose to not be credited by name + had full control over the AI modulation of their voice #and that this same VA had also gone without being credited in previous games at their own request #articles also seem to be implying that the lore of the game is “shallow” compared to Myst because of AI involvement #as opposed to the part where Myst is 3-4 games being dimly remembered through nostalgia goggles whereas Firmament is a standalone game #they could be lying about the VA thing i guess but that's such a bizarre and easily falsifiable claim to make

[gothic-mothic]

Can’t we just stay here?

#the stanley parable #tsp #my husband #zending #my human narrator is all over the place don’t mind that #zending always reminded me of sweet voice #kinda wanna doodle hlvrai x tsp shit #bc they are connected in some ways #hlvrai literally being Half-life in Gmod #and Tsp originally being a Half-life2 mod #small world right? crazy #starry dome posting #.png

[andy-clutterbuck]

4x16 | A

#*nature documentary narrator voice*: we've crept upon a beast loitering in the forest. let's see what he does. my goodness he's a fine one #Rick Grimes #* #rg #S4 #Murder Coat™ #me as the bag strap #excuse me but The Nose™ #this is the s4 finale so that counts as feral rick right? #it does im making the executive decision #are you even alive if Feral Wildman Rick didn't speak to some nasty part of your brain #hello sir would you like to get to know each other biblically in the foliage over there #that was already a tag.....i amaze myself sometimes #poison ivy? #i don't know her #that one curl sticking out on the right #hello welcome to the tour #on your left you will see A MAN™ #please proceed carefully it may bite

[dragonomatopoeia]

the aggrieved posts about 'how come people are calling mutually assured destruction and stabbing each other before dying in each others' arms yuri instead of two women being in love which is actually literally yuri' are incomprehensible to me because i had naturally assumed that we were talking about 1) women who are in love 2) stabbing each other and dying in each other's arms

#then again i have been puzzling over a backloggd review of slay the princess that called it insufferably het #because i was like of course this is yuri. the voices in my head narrating my actions may be he/him but what do they have to do with me #i'm a bird. birds don't have gender.

[wanyinchen-narts]

SUNFLOWER (CANON DIVERGENCE AU)

the absolute *chef's kiss*, depth, angst, and clownery of the kakagai dynamic this fic has is beyond insane and amazing and I am not ashamed to say that I have binged it at least 7 times

Now, my lovelies, please read "Sunflower" by cloudynebula and lapifors once more and bask in its utter perfection. But make sure you're in the right headspace for it because it's really heavy and dark tho! Please take care of yourself first <3

*more incoherent babbling in the tags lmaooo*

#kakagai #maito gai #hatake kakashi #might guy #naruto #sha's nart art #fanart of a fanfic #the sunflower fic deserves a tag as far as i'm concerned #go. read. sunflower!!!! #i swear it is the best Gai character study fic!!! #you have no idea on how rare Gai character study fics that actually don't underestimate him are #or something along those lines #its so rare to find gai-centered fics that have his voice down to a tee #and not overdoing the dramatic capitalization to a fucking ridiculous amount; and not having the words YOUTH!!! and SPRINGTIME!!! be used #--in every other sentence LIKE THANK YOU! Its one of my pet peeves i think i just dont like the implication that Gai is an dumb idiot #we need more gai-centered fics!!! he's fucking hilarious as a narrator #like THANK YOU!!!! I imagine Gai to be sweet emotional genuine overwhelming overdramatic over-the-top stubborn and wise #not a fool who only has YOUTH!! and PASSION!! in his dictionary LIKE EXCUSE YOU! Gai's very flowery and poetic; he knows many words :D #and the actual depth of Gai in this fic makes me cry and wail happy tears #and the depicted relationship between Gai and Kakashi is so perfect it makes me cry and wail happy tears even more!!! #like its so perfect and genuine and real and true *more wailing* #LIKE THANK YOU FOR HAVING GAI ACTUALLY OPPOSE AND DISAPPROVE KAKASHI'S ACTIONS IN ANBU #gai walks beside kakashi NOT BEHIND #he aint Kakashi's simp or Kakashi's enabler #he's Kakashi's best friend and eternal rival goddammit!!! #and thats all lmao #whoopsies i went on a tangent

[compacflt]

Hi! Thanks for opening your inbox to questions/prompts! If you get around to it, I was wondering how Ice and Mav feel about the very public nature of Rooster and Hangman's wedding/marriage in your fics, it must be very weird to them, especially talking to other people in the Navy about it. Also I just really adore your Slider fic and if you have other thoughts on how Ice and Mav are perceived by their other friends and Sarah I would adore that too

Ive posted all the stuff you suggested above in previous wip wednesdays actually but here’s a little snippet of icemav being Perceived!

everyone has a different strategy for dealing with icemav and their bullshit (Cougar, to openly accuse/make fun of them; slider, to let them get away with it; mav, to survive on scraps; ice, to pretend it isn’t happening, etc.) & sundown’s strategy is to play dumb & pretend ice came out to him decades ago so they’re both in on the secret. it’s actually a great strategy—circumvent ice’s denial by pretending he isn’t denying anything. but easily counteracted by ice’s counterstrategy of ALSO playing dumb and going along with it, so he and sundown never really get anywhere in seriously discussing it. Sundown’s like “man I’m so happy for you guys, glad you two are still together, you guys are really true love personified for real :)” and ice is like “:) thanks! idiot!” & doesn’t really internalize the message.

#context: ice & mav have to attend some dumb navy dinner but #all the photographers cream themselves over the opportunity to recreate the Handshake Picture 25 years later #‘good to see you maverick’ (narrator voice: they got dressed in the same closet not two hours ago) #edts notes #tom iceman kazansky #pete maverick mitchell #top gun #icemav #asks #again these little extras are kind of dumb but. mostly i write just to get stuff out of my head

[even-disco-baby]

DOLORES DEI — “I don’t *understand* you, Harry. You aren’t dying, you’re just sad. Why is everything an apocalypse to you? People don’t die of sadness! I’m… I’m not trying to kill you, Harry…” Her holy gaze falls to her feet. “I never wanted to hurt you at all.”

DRAMA — She speaks the truth, sire. All she ever did was love you.

RHETORIC — No. Don’t let her control the narrative. She’s *wrong.* People die of sadness every day. Sadness the likes of which she has never and will never know. Tell her about the body on the boardwalk, his mouth full of chewing gum to mask the smell of disappointment. Tell her about René’s angry little heart full of barbs and spines that repelled all but one man. Tell her about Cuno’s father, wasting away and leaving nothing but a specter that will dog his son’s footsteps forever. Tell her about Ruby. Tell her about the Bad Day.

“I never wanted to hurt you, either. I just wanted you to understand *my* hurt.”

“Just because you can’t imagine something doesn’t mean that it isn’t real.”

DOLORES DEI — “But that’s not true, is it?” Her beautiful eyes are full of pain. “You *did* want to hurt me. You wanted me to be sad, too. And then you wanted me to leave you and prove that you were right about everything. About me, about life…”

She sighs, brushing a strand of hair from her face. “Well, you got what you wanted. I’m gone and I’m never coming back. Are you happy? Does it feel *good* to be right?”

INLAND EMPIRE — Nothing will ever feel good or right again. You have made certain of that.

RHETORIC — It feels better than the constant dread of being abandoned. It feels like vindication.

“I never wanted to hurt you, either. I just wanted you to understand *my* hurt.”

“Just because you can’t imagine something doesn’t mean that it isn’t real.”

DOLORES DEI — “This again!” She pinches the bridge of her nose, and the gesture makes her look strangely more human. “What do you want me to say? ‘I’m sorry for not being born poor?’ ‘I’m sorry for not being an alcoholic?’ ‘I’m sorry I don’t want to die?’ I’m not going to ruin my life just to understand where you’re coming from, Harry!”

And then, her expression softens. Like light passing through stained glass. “You’re not well, Harry. You don’t need to die. You just need help.”

EMPATHY — She genuinely wants you to be better. And she believes that you can be.

RHETORIC — But she fails to understand the difference between you two. Poverty, addiction, the pain wracking your bodymind… She can leave these realities behind. Go back home to her parents, start a new life on another isola and be a new person. And so she did, and so she is. But you? It’s too late for you. It was too late from the moment you were born, in the death throes of the revolution. It was her people that killed it.

VOLITION — Is any of that her fault? Is it wrong for her to save herself from you, just because you can’t? You can be sad and angry at this wedge the world drove between you, but why did you have to misplace that anger? You took it out on her just because you could. You made it impossible for her to stand by you without getting stabbed in the back. You even became a cop so you could take it out on other people, too. Stop this, Harry. No more cruelty.

“There is no helping me. The world isn’t built to help people like me. I realized that in Martinaise. None of us can just *leave.*”

“Fuck you. You don’t know what I need.”

“I want to get better. Would you love me again if I got better?”

DOLORES DEI — She smiles, and it’s tinged with pity. “Oh, Harry… You are what you are. I’ve already forgiven you for that. And you may not forgive me, but I am what I am.” She closes her eyes, head bowing just slightly, almost like a prayer. “But we cannot *be* together anymore. Don’t you see that? There is nothing good left that can come of it. It would just be… more of this.”

Her Innocence Dolores Dei opens her eyes and looks around her— at this strange set you have constructed to act out a million different conversations that all end the same way. “I can’t live in your nightmares, Harry. And neither can you.”

VOLITION — You don’t have to anymore. Let her go, Harry.

“See you tomorrow.”

“Goodbye, Dora.”

DOLORES DEI — She smiles that pitying smile again. It’s not going to be that simple. “See you around, Harry.”

INLAND EMPIRE — You can try to rid yourself of this place, this feeling… But it will come back to you eventually. What you build at low tide will be swallowed up again someday.

VOLITION — And then you’ll build it again. As long as you live. You can do it.

#disco elysium #harry du bois #dora ingerlund #dolores dei #suicide tw #dora is. so juicy to me. #tfw you come from wealth and so you are the only person in the narrative capable of leaving the realities of life behind #but the leaving is exactly what deprives you of a voice in this story #except from the pov of your shitty unreliable narrator ex #who can only remember you as a vague concept to project both his own self loathing and his directionless anger onto #but there’s also kernels of truth to certain things he remembers about you #which is that class drove a wedge between you that prevented you from being able to even imagine what was going on w him internally and why #but he only drove that wedge farther and made it impossible for you to bridge that gap #are you the villain in this story? are you a martyr? #you’re neither. you’re just a human with no power over the circumstances of her birth #but more power over what course your life takes than other characters in this story #and so you get to live in one new world at the cost of another

[employee052]

#ADateWithNarry

hello, my name is jay, though most folks call me soup. i'd like to petition a date with the narrator. big fan of his game! i used to write headcanons for him a lot, and there's still a part of my heart that flutters when i see him on my dash. he and i share a love of stories in common. i'm an english major aspiring to be a writer. i feel like he and i would have a lot to talk about, and i do admire his voice quite a bit. my favorite quality of his is his sense of showmanship. he put a lot of work into his game, and it shows.

(and maybe if i can, i'll just blow him a lil kiss 😘)

<3

AAA tysm for the submission yo! I was going to get my narrator to respond on this post bc submissions are supposed to go to his blog, but it just ended up on an hour-long rant about principle and how he might not reach his followers on his blog so ill just post this and let him respond on his own.

#a date with narry #(ooc even tho its my own blog im just breaking character for a bit: i was debating on whether or not i should just let narry respond here) #(bc it would be easier if i just did and have him rb on his blog and just move on to answering the others) #(but the narrator voice in my head straight up yelled and went into a long monologue for a good while asjkhd) #(anywho sendin this over to his blog i hope you dont mind yo!) #(also i love your narrator fics and headcannons sm btw! they actually play a huge inspiration to my narrator and his rp blog ajskhd)

[kheyys-worms]

So, Barbatos stans... how feelin after that prologue movie?

#I woke up first thing in the morning and was immediately teased by the devs with this SCRUMPTIOUS BARB LORE #just when i thought i was out from this fandom. I am once again pulled back in #also Kawata-san's voice as Solomon narrating is so nice to hear??? I played the video over and over again just to hear his voice <333 #obey me #obey me nightbringer #obey me barbatos #kheyy's art