Voiceover

What this is about

Commercials, explainers, and documentaries lean on a narrator to carry structure the picture alone cannot. The workflow rewards order: lock the script before the session, because a changed sentence later means rebooking the voice; record against the near-final cut so pacing fits; capture alternate reads while the studio is booked. Casting matters more than gear — a voice carries brand and tone. For timing, editors first cut to a scratch track, then swap in the final read and adjust breaths and pauses to the picture.

A term only helps when everyone on set means the same thing by it — so what follows is how it is used, not a dictionary definition.

What runs differently here

Where this differs from the general case:

• Lock the script before the session — every changed line is a rebooking
• Record wild alternate reads of key sentences while the studio runs
• Write for the ear: short sentences, active verbs, no subclauses

With TillyGen

VO script approval is its own review step in TillyGen, so the text is signed off before studio time is paid for.

Change one constraint and the consequences travel through the whole plan: affected shots are flagged, the call sheet is regenerated, and nobody keeps working from yesterday's version.