Hi, Cameron
What a pleasant little queer story!
I think you'll have a lot of fun shooting this yourself.
Having performed the voice overs in a couple of my own shorts recently I definitely advise, that good or bad, you should go ahead and include them, just for production experience.
There's so much going on with audio clean up, filtering, and editing timing that it just adds a whole new rich level of consideration to your production.
Do you have audio editing software?
Headzup - go ahead and find now whatever background music you want to include.
Again, this goes with the timing thing and how you'll potentially want to have certain shots match up with certain elements of the music.
This also means you're best off recording your voice over first, run a few high and low pass filters just to tweak it's gross quality, then start deleting inhalation sounds and tinkering with delivery timing by adding or subtracting fractions of seconds to the recording.
Save your final.
It's bizarre but worthwhile.
THENNNN I'd start shooting once I had a pretty good idea of how much time I needed to record for.
Shooting for live action and shooting for animation, which when doing 100% VOs this is actually closer to, are completely different critters.
GL & GB
Ray
PS. Story-wise, be very careful not to shoot those first couple of scenes terribly clichéd:
- camera on front steps 90° to front door, centered, package centered.
- door opens, all the audience sees are the woman's shins to shoes.
- hands come down and dead snatch the brown paper package.
Uggggh! Spare me, puhleeeeaze!
