I’ve heard a great deal of Don LaFontaine’s work in older movie trailers, so I was curious as to how using that voice and style could make anything seem dramatic. Looking around for inspiration, one of the first items I saw was a highlighter, which thus became my subject. I decided to emphasize the contrast between the brightness of the highlighter and the drabness of studying in order to make the highlighter the protagonist of this fictional tale. I recorded the piece dramatically in Audacity, and then played around with the pitch to deepen my voice. This took a bit of work, as initially I sounded like a terrible beast, and then over-corrected so my voice resembled a chipmunk’s. I eventually found a happy medium, and the result is below.
This was really good. You did a great job capturing the essence of stereotypical movie trailers.