Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. The voice of an unseen narrator, or of an onscreen character not seen speaking, in a movie or a television broadcast.
- n. A film or videotape recording narrated by a voice-over.
Wiktionary
Examples
“The former prime minister was brought to the Khamovnichesky court about half-an-hour ago" says the voice-over, which is based on state television coverage of the second Khodorkovsky trial.”
Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph, Sunday Telegraph
“A voice-over says, "every time you clean with the leading spray mop, it costs you.”
The Wall Street Journal: Going Mop Head to Mop Head on the Floor
“The voice-over tag line: Our greatest generation denied care.”
“The 30-second ad, which will also run on the CNN airport network and on the A&E and Syfy networks, shows archival footage of Kennedy's Dallas motorcade, with a voice-over that says, "What if instead of justwatching history, you could change it?”
“Another director might have wanted to demonstrate more explicitly through music, a caption or a voice-over the idea of the Good Shepherd who does not leave his flock, which the monks discuss at one point during their deliberations on whether or not to "stay.”
The Huffington Post: Rev. James Martin, S.J.: The Best Movie On Faith I Have Ever Seen
“It features some familiar school architecture, combined with classic Ivan Illich passages read in voice-over by a Japanese schoolgirl.”
“And try as I might, I couldn't "hear" Edward Everett Horton doing a voice-over for any of these sequences. randee”
“Perdue provided a voice-over in the video and said, “We never knew we were poor.””
“Later, a voice-over announced, "It's not the first time he's had a hood in the big crib" as a photo of rapper Common appeared on screen.”
The Huffington Post: Rashad Robinson: Tell Fox: Fire Eric Bolling
“But, well, a somewhat cracked idea kinda occurred to me, as I read a couple of them, that what might work is doing them in voice-over as a stand-up routine -- like you might get in a documentary on the life of Bill Hicks or suchlike, dig?”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘voice-over’.
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Film and Cinematography
A list of terms used in cinematography
anamorphic, a and b rolls, academy aperture, academy leader, answer print, married print, filmography, apple box, aspect ratio, backwind, camera-stylo, barndoors and 53 more...
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The Other Side of Silence
A sound garden.
I sound my barbaric yawp over the roofs of the world. --Walt Whitmantin cry, chark, gride, scroop, crepitation, stridulation, swazzle, death-ruckle, cronk, rumble, borborygmus, crowling and 165 more...
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filmscript
1st positions, action, atmosphere, background action, banana, bit part, body double, bluescreen, call sheet, call time, checking-in, checking the gate and 81 more...
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gangerh Recording of dialog to be used on a production's soundtrack where the speaker is not being shown. Jul 30, 2008