voice-over
Voice-over can narrate or comment on images. This topic is part of Film Production within Movies & Television. This page currently draws on 7 supporting questions, with answers and bonus facts available below.
voice-over trivia questions
Voice-over is speech heard while the speaker may not be what?
Answer: Visible on screen
Bonus fact: Voice-over can narrate or comment on images.
What film genre often uses cynical first-person voice-over narration?
Answer: Film noir
Bonus fact: Noir protagonists frequently narrate their own stories.
What is a key difference between voice-over and dialogue?
Answer: Voice-over need not come from a visible speaker in the scene
Bonus fact: Narration can exist outside the immediate scene.
Who voiced Stewie Griffin in Family Guy's 2000 Emmy-winning voice-over performance?
Answer: Seth MacFarlane
Bonus fact: MacFarlane also voices several other Family Guy characters.
Who voices Sideshow Bob on The Simpsons?
Answer: Kelsey Grammer
Bonus fact: Television Academy records list Kelsey Grammer as Sideshow Bob and record his 2006 voice-over win.
Who voices Homer Simpson?
Answer: Dan Castellaneta
Bonus fact: The Television Academy records Dan Castellaneta's voice-over Emmy win for Homer Simpson.
Which documentary technique uses an off-screen voice to explain images?
Answer: Voice-over narration
Bonus fact: Narration can provide context or argument.