tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-72695509536015639902024-03-12T18:46:39.747-07:00Matinée Sound and VisionMatinée Sound and Visionhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09667511555853302949noreply@blogger.comBlogger10125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7269550953601563990.post-13482294990320624722012-07-13T08:22:00.001-07:002012-07-13T08:22:32.330-07:00Don’t get stuck for Voiceovers during the Olympics<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">During the busiest days of
the Olympics, the number of journeys in London could more than double with <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">up to three million more travellers</i> on the
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you Matinée are just outside the black spot area, and only 25 minutes from <st1:city w:st="on">London</st1:city>: <o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<a href="http://www.rondeep-productions.com/about.html"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Dr Ranen Sarma</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial;">, a medical practitioner of more than 30 years, asked Matinée for help in translating his documentary <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">film "From London with love, a doctor's message home"</i> from English into </span><a href="http://www.matinee.co.uk/languages_multi.asp?Lang=Assamese-voice-over"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Assamese</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial;"> and </span><a href="http://www.matinee.co.uk/languages_multi.asp?Lang=Hindi-voice-over"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Hindi</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial;">.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">The documentary focuses on true stories that reveal the sufferings of millions of schizophrenics in India and also demonstrates effective 'shared care' treatments to help cope with the challenge of schizophrenia.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">The<a href="http://www.blogger.com/" name="_GoBack"></a> 'shared care' policy put forward by Dr Sarma in Assam is on the lines of a policy by the same name implemented by the British government in England.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Dr Sarma is hopeful that the new approach to treat the mentally-ill by a general medical practitioner and a psychiatrist in India will heal millions of schizophrenics in a country where the Government simply can’t cope.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">For Matinée, it was a pleasure to be a part of such a worthwhile project we took extra care in selecting the most suitable voice artists and translators. Very precise lip-sync recording and audio editing was required to ensure the voiceover was matched perfectly to the 25 minute video, we’ve provided a short clip below.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">In this short example you can hear the </span><a href="http://www.matinee.co.uk/languages_multi.asp?Lang=Hindi-voice-over"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Hindi voiceover</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial;">.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The finished DVD contains a language selection menu so you can hear it in English, Hindi or Assamese.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">The documentary has since been garnering support across the globe, and has already been selected for screening at this year's </span><a href="http://www.filmlinc.com/nyff2012"><span style="font-family: Arial;">New York Independent Film Festival</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial;">.</span></div>
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Chinese months follow the lunar calendar, with each month beginning on the darkest day. New Year festivities traditionally start on the first day of the month and continue until the fifteenth, when the moon is brightest. In China, people may take weeks of holiday from work to prepare for and celebrate the New Year.<br />
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How are you enjoying the celebrations? The Glasgow based Matinée sales office are enjoying the annual Takeaway China film festival: <a href="http://www.takeawaychina.com/">http://www.takeawaychina.com</a><br />
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<br />Matinée Sound and Visionhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09667511555853302949noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7269550953601563990.post-30572117174232101212012-01-06T04:39:00.000-08:002012-01-06T04:40:15.577-08:0011 things you need to know for a video translation quote.<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">The cost of translating video depends, not only on the <a href="http://matineesoundandvision.blogspot.com/2012/01/what-method-of-translating-video-is.html" target="_blank"><u><span style="color: blue;">method</span></u> </a>of translation chosen, but other factors, including:</span><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">5. The language(s) required for translation.</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">6. The <span style="color: blue;"><a href="http://matineesoundandvision.blogspot.com/2012/01/what-method-of-translating-video-is.html" target="_blank">method</a> </span>of translation preferred.</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">11. The format the translated video is to be delivered back in.<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>Matinée Sound and Visionhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09667511555853302949noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7269550953601563990.post-85072019554810905362012-01-06T04:35:00.000-08:002012-01-06T04:36:38.940-08:00What method of translating video is best?<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">There are four standard methods of localizing video and which method you choose is a matter of budget, taste, the objectives of your video and your audience’s preference. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">Producing lip-synced recordings is a very time consuming process and the final result can be questionable - you never get a <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">perfect</i> lip-sync.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Modern cinema goers generally prefer to hear the original audio with subtitles/captions, but lip-syncing could be the best option if the audience aren’t likely to read.</span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">Cost? </span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">The cost will depend on the number of voices required, but a UN style voice over is generally less expensive than lip-syncing.</span><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"><o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">Considerations</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"> Subtitling is the most cost-effective way of translating video, and is often a preferred alternative to Lip-Syncing, or UN Style voice over i.e. it’s ideal use is where you have actors/presenters talking direct to the camera (Talking Heads).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>However subtitles require a commitment from the viewer, and aren’t always the best option if your audience is passive e.g.TV Commercials, promotional corporate video etc.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<b><span style="color: red; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Help Ed & Gus escape the chop this Christmas in the Matinée Turkey run game!</span> </b></div>
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<span style="color: red; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong>Have a very Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year from all the team at Matinée.</strong></span></div>Matinée Sound and Visionhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09667511555853302949noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7269550953601563990.post-50482522861484407422011-12-05T06:02:00.000-08:002011-12-05T06:13:25.915-08:00Are professional voice overs really worth the cost?<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"><span style="color: black;">Sadly, at best most of us have average </span></span><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"><span style="color: black;">enunciation.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>That is; we often mumble or slur our speech, and we’re just not that interesting to listen to!<o:p></o:p></span></span><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: small;">At Matinée we firmly believe a professional voice over will give a return on the investment. Keeping your audience interested, motivated or reassured. To demonstrate how dynamic our voices are, we created a short video featuring </span></span></span></span></span><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">our voice artists perform challenging tongue-twisters! And if you <span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt;"><a href="http://www.facebook.com/#!/pages/Matin%C3%A9e-Sound-Vision-Ltd/159159444231" target="_blank"><span style="font-size: small;">Vote for your favourite voice artist</span></a><span style="font-size: small;"> in our Facebook poll, you could <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">win a basket of TongueTastic muffins!</b></span> <o:p></o:p></span></span><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: small;"> </span><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"><o:p> </o:p></span><iframe allowfullscreen='allowfullscreen' webkitallowfullscreen='webkitallowfullscreen' mozallowfullscreen='mozallowfullscreen' width='320' height='266' src='https://www.youtube.com/embed/G7sr6qeWZNM?feature=player_embedded' frameborder='0'></iframe></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">We’ve already posted some <a href="http://matineesoundandvision.blogspot.com/2011/11/matinee-tongue-twister-challenge.html" target="_blank">popular English tongue-twisters</a>. Do you have any favourites of your own that you’d like to share? And, if you are feeling brave, record your own tongue-twister and share it via our <a href="http://soundcloud.com/groups/matin-e-sound-vision"><span style="color: blue;">Soundcloud</span></a> group!</span><o:p></o:p></div>Matinée Sound and Visionhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09667511555853302949noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7269550953601563990.post-55144475405293166962011-11-14T05:31:00.000-08:002011-11-17T01:53:12.454-08:00THE MATINEE TONGUE TWISTER CHALLENGEWe decided it was about time to showcase the quality of our voice talent. What on earth does that involve I hear you ask? Well, what better way of bringing together a host of talented voice artists, than put them through ‘The Matinee tongue twister challenge’. <br />
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One thing we guarantee is that you will find these hard to say (without keeping a straight face!). Go on, try saying these out loud - you’re bound to smile - we might even raise a laugh: <br />
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Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers.<br />
A peck of pickled peppers Peter Piper picked.<br />
If Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers,<br />
Where's the peck of pickled peppers Peter Piper picked?<br />
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She sells sea-shells on the sea-shore.<br />
The shells she sells are sea-shells, I'm sure.<br />
For if she sells sea-shells on the sea-shore<br />
Then I'm sure she sells sea-shore shells.<br />
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Betty Botter bought a bit of butter.<br />
The butter Betty Botter bought was a bit bitter<br />
And made her batter bitter.<br />
But a bit of better butter makes better batter.<br />
So Betty Botter bought a bit of better butter<br />
Making Betty Botter's bitter batter better<br />
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I'm not the pheasant plucker, I'm the pheasant plucker's son, <br />
And I'm only plucking pheasants till the pheasant pluckers come!<br />
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The sixth sick sheik's sixth sheep's sick.<br />
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I saw Susie sitting in a shoe shine shop.<br />
Where she sits she shines, and where she shines she sits.<br />
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The thirty-three thieves thought that they thrilled the throne throughout Thursday<br />
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Gobbling gorgoyles gobbled gobbling goblins.</strong></div><br />
Now that you have had time to practice, What are you waiting for? Our Matinee <a href="http://soundcloud.com/groups/matin-e-sound-vision">SoundCloud Group</a> is the easiest way to upload your tongue twister. There are no restrictions; you can even select your own tongue twister if you wish. We’re sure you will agree that the real challenge is to say them multiple times. So go on and impress us! <br />
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Once we have selected the top ten tongue twisters, we will cast a poll on our <a href="http://www.facebook.com/pages/Matin%C3%A9e-Sound-Vision-Ltd/159159444231?ref=tn_tinyman">facebook page</a> where you can vote for your favourite. (Try to not vote for yourself!) <br />
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If successful, the best performances will be featured in our next marketing campaign where you will gain exposure to over 20,000 clients and prospects. What better way to promote your voice?Matinée Sound and Visionhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09667511555853302949noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7269550953601563990.post-33679360900292751072011-11-02T09:43:00.000-07:002011-11-02T09:43:42.035-07:00In a nutshell, Quality is King!<span style="color: black;">E</span>veryone is jumping on the social media bandwagon<span style="color: black;">, and for good reason - it allows people to connect and share information so quickly and easily! If you are in the hunt for something new to share with your audience, video marketing can be really effective, as </span>Lee, from Hinge Marketing<span style="color: black;"> explains:</span><br />
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<span style="color: black;">We agree with Lee - v</span>ideo marketing <span style="color: black;">can be a relatively inexpensive and effective way to </span>engag<span style="color: black;">e with</span> <span style="color: black;">your </span>customers<span style="color: black;">.</span> <span style="color: black;">However’ with the advent of low-cost HD camera equipment and editing software, t</span>here are <span style="color: black;">now thousands of freelance video producers </span>who claim they are <span style="color: black;">the “best”, but if that were true why are they offering to work for such low rates?</span><br />
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<span style="color: black;">R</span>emember you pay for quality<span style="color: black;">, and whilst h</span>omemade videos are fun<span style="color: black;">,</span> and organic<span style="color: black;">,</span> <span style="color: black;">are they really going to give you the</span> professional image you want<span style="color: black;">? Make sure you </span>use a professional video production company<span style="color: black;">, it might cost a bit more, but the end result will be worth it. </span><br />
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