DARK SHADOWS FORUMS
General Discussions => Current Talk Archive => Current Talk '24 I => Current Talk '04 II => Topic started by: Patti Feinberg on November 06, 2004, 04:11:22 PM
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or whatever in the beginning of the show they're called.
Did Johnathon Frid ever do one? How 'bout John Karlen?
Patti
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hey patti, according to kls's book "dark shadows almanac" j.frid read the opening voice-over only 12 times.j.karlen read it 24 times.the book does a round-up of all the actors that ever did it(50 actors total).alexandra tops-out at 387 readings.
this is just me but i prefer it when an actress,not actor,reads it.
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I loved it when John Karlen did the voice over......I always thought of that as "his" voice, rather than Willie's.
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I wish that they had never ceased using AM for the opening voiceovers. "My name is Victoria Winters..." was as much to me an "icon" of the show as Barn's ring, cane, or any other prop and/or whatever icon of the show. I remember not hearing it for the first time and feeling a great sense of loss.
But that aside, there sure were some fantastic post-VW opening voiceovers weren't there?
dom
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I wish that they had never ceased using AM for the opening voiceovers. "My name is Victoria Winters..." was as much to me an "icon" of the show as Barn's ring, cane, or any other prop and/or whatever icon of the show. I remember not hearing it for the first time and feeling a great sense of loss.
But that aside, there sure were some fantastic post-VW opening voiceovers weren't there?
that's exactly how i felt too dom after the first post-AM voiceover.i loved that it was like a girl reciting something from her diary.i know her episode one voiceover by heart(i'm sure alot of us do).
my "quote" is part of one of vicki's voiceovers from the very beggining of the barnabas story when she still started with "my name is...".
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..."My name is Victoria Winters..."
....I remember not hearing it for the first time and feeling a great sense of loss.
But that aside, there sure were some fantastic post-VW opening voiceovers weren't there?
Hi dom! {wave}
Yeah, but her voiceovers would have had to have stopped anyway once she left the show. It wouldn't have fit anymore - especially once they went into 1897 and whatnot.
I'm rather partial to Selby's voiceovers. He did 46. I love listening to them on headphones. (Mmm....yummy) They're really very very good.
-Not prejudiced 8)
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Connie...how do you listen to them on audio? Is this something you can buy???
Patti
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Connie...how do you listen to them on audio? Is this something you can buy???
(sigh)
Oh Patti, Patti, Patti..... (how ya doin' sweetie?)
I just plug some headphones into the headphone jack on the TV.
;D
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Did David Henesy or Denise Nickerson ever do a voiceover?
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David had three. Denise had none. I thought I'd remembered David doing one but not Denise. I think my memory is improving, lol. The source for the count was from one of KLS's DS Alamanacs.
dom
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David had three. Denise had none. I thought I'd remember David doing one but not Denise. I think my memory is improving, lol. The source for the count was from one of KLS's DS Alamanacs.
Go dom with your authoritative!self!!!! Whoosh!!!
In awe of my dom :-* :-* :-* ,
Patti
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I love both Grayson's and Thayer's. They both did voice work on commercials and such professionally, which may have been why they were asked to do so many. I've often wondered how the decision was made--I would presume the director decided.
Jonathan Frid only did them towards the end of the show, iirc.
G.
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I've often wondered how the decision was made--I would presume the director decided.
Considering the way they flew-by-the-seat-of-their-pants in that studio, whoever was directing that day probably yelled "who can hang around for the voice-over" and the actor who objected the least ended up doing it.
Or else they drew lots and the one with the short candle got stuck. ::)
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Yeah, but the good ones (including the ones by Lad Karlen) are quite performative, and they've obviously read over it a couple of times and perhaps made notes... I would guess that Lela or Kaplan or whoever it was decided during the morning read-through of the script.
G.
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I think I read somewhere that the person doing the voice over had to be on that day's show. This way they didn't have to pay anyone extra.
As to who from the episode they chose to read the VO I'm not sure how they went about making that decision.
Misa
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I'd read somewhere that the actor doing the voice-over not only had to be in that day's episode, but their character couldn't be in the opening scene (though this rule was bent a few times, particularly with Alexandra Moltke). Grayson gets my vote for "best voice-overs." Whenever I heard her distinctive husky tones at the beginning, I thought, "Cool! Doctor Hoffman's in today's show, so something really juicy's bound to happen."
As for the text of the voice-overs, they're tough to write on a daily basis (basing this observation on some fan-fiction I've written in the past). Common words in the intro included "terror," "death," "fear," "darkness," and "the great house of Collinwood."
Imagine starting your average day with an obligatory "voice over." Love it! Try it.
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I particularly enjoyed the voiceovers done by Humbert Allen Astredo.....his voice sounding so sinister and yet so charming, keeping totally in Nicholas' character.
Also loved Jonathan's voiceovers, as too few as there were. Also his voiceovers were very much in character, sounding a bit menacing yet with a hint of vulnerability in there as well.
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I enjoyed Grayson's, Lara's, and David Selby's the most. I think all of them can emote like no other. I don't recall if Marie Wallace did any or not. Actually, now that I think about it, I think she did. At the 06 Brooklyn Fest, I sat and listened to her talk and read a passage from her book. Even though I had no real interest in her book, I listened intently because something about her voice is bewitching. I'd listen to her read the dictionary, phone book, etc any day!
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I love Grayson Hall's voiceovers, and right now when I'm watching 1897, it's especially fun to hear them, knowing that she'll be doing the Magda accent later on.
Early in 1897 there's a Roger Davis voiceover that surprised me. I don't like his voice - it sounds to me as though he's eating peanut butter - but he did a very nice, sort of spooky job on this voiceover, and I didn't think of peanut butter even once.