The Voice Over

The voice over was what i was going to be saving last, after i had the edit and knew how long i would have to do my dialogue. I would like to think sound is one of my stronger points but this is from experience with music recording which is a bit different to voice overs, something i have done comparatively little of.
I had a fairly good idea of what i was going to say throughout the planning and adapted this to the film content, taking bits of the interviews i could not include in the film to give the narrative valid information to my film as well as content.
The introduction was practically taken word for word to what Bruce Parry says at the start, slightly adapted to suit the film. I had already done a test introduction, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N360sRhSWf4 using a condenser mic and soundboard usually used for music recordings of vocals and un-amplified musically equipment.The one advantage of using this was that i could put it into sound editing programs which i am more familiar with and edit it at ease. However i had difficulty getting the converted soundfiles to be edited in premier pro. Regardless i didn't take the problem much further as unfortunately i didn't have a pop filter so this picked up literally everything including some very faint wind chimes and some dastardly pigeon cooing in the tree.
Instead I used my HDC SD900 camera for memory and Jess's "Roede" shotgun mic to recorded the sound, which made it far better then previous attempts.The first round of takes i did was for the introduction, the fire scene and the FIFA scene. I did this in M16, but upon  to hearing the sound quality it was too echoic and so resolved to go back and re-do this, as personally audio quality has been the most important thing in a film.
I waited till midnight and recorded in my bedroom which had a softer surfaces for the waves to bounce. The dead of night was good as there wasn't any inept housemates galloping up and down the stairs in my house.
 I did it fairly efficiently but as usual red light syndrome (wherein in practicing you will do fine but as soon as the record button goes on you screw up) meant that i tongue twisted my words and had to do many takes on one or two of the paragraphs.
I have been i tend to have a slight slur on my speech down to my accent so i really made sure that i pronounced my words properly and clearly and didn't fall into some gibberish Welsh Marches tongue.
Now the voice over is done the film will, upon adding it tomorrow feel far more completed and a huge step in progress.