Today was a really exciting day (April 29th 2015) because I was recording the voice over to my narration. I had hired a 66 year old gentleman from Manchester who travelled over via the train into Leeds to come into the Radio Studio and record it for me. I loved his voice because it was deep, warming and he could portray a lot of emotion and I knew that would be right for my piece.
He arrived and we went into the Radio studio. I had already been in there with a technician who was showing me how all the equipment worked and helped set it up for me. This was stressful as I only had 20 minutes to learn how everything worked. I felt rather pressurised as anything could have gone wrong.
By 17:00 we had finished recording and I had done 20 takes, one of them was a more static reading, where he would pause after each sentence so if anything went wrong I had the opportunity to cut between the lines and merge together in post. However, the last two takes were pretty much perfect and I felt so relieved and happy by the end because I knew I had done it right and he had understood how I wanted it reading.
I found it difficult to put the directors hat on because I normally play the role of producer. This was a different experience for me and I did get into the swing of things by the end and wouldn't say no again. I feel really proud that everything is coming together and that people are complimenting my work.
Myself and Dave spoke about the contributor release form, which I have just emailed over to him, where I have agreed to pay his expenses, credit his name in the piece and send over a copy of his narration along with the music. I did not agree to give him a copy of the piece itself as that is purely mine I feel and it is copyrighted to me. He will be able to have a link to the piece should I put it online anywhere.
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