'Narration for Documentaries' a workshop by Dr. Padmakumar K
'Narration for Documentaries' a workshop by Dr. Padmakumar K
November 12, 2019
Mangalore, September 27th: 'Narration for Documentaries' a
workshop by Dr. Padmakumar K was taken place for Animation and Filmmaking
students of iNurture at Srinivas University City Campus, Mangalore.
Objective of the Industry Lecture:
Voice over/ narration is one of the key aspects in
documentary films, a filmmaker needs to work on his vocal delivery skills. It
is a need to know the importance of a good voice over, voice modulation and
techniques to make one’s voice over effective. Learning various exercises to
improve voice, preparing quick bytes for advertisements are necessary skills
that young filmmakers need to learn. Hence, It is necessary to have an
interaction with a specialist who has mastered vocal delivery in his career.
Brief of Speakers and Guests:
Dr Padmakumar K is Associate Professor and Head of
Department of Corporate Communication at Manipal Institute of Communication,
Manipal Academy of Higher Education, where he teaches courses in Radio
production and other Media Related Subjects. Prior to his academic work, he
spent ten years in Commercial Radio (Sun TV Network, Radiocity 91.1 FM, India)
in positions ranging from RJ to show producer to Programming Director. During
this time, he hosted prime-time shows. He was conferred with the ‘Young
Communicator’ award by SIMC (Category Radio 2008), and was also the recipient
of the ‘Whatte Champ’ award (Innovation and Business Impact), Radio City.
He visited Hochschule Bremen, Germany for a period of three
months, on a DAAD Fellowship and conducted classes in International Media
Systems. He was invited as a Plenary Speaker for the Asia Media Forum, held in
Incheon, South Korea in 2013. Recently, he was invited as a Speaker for
Broadcast Asia, June 2015 held in Marina Bay Sands, Singapore to talk about the
transformation of media and communication in the Indian Context.
He has conducted several radio workshops in Universities and
Colleges in India and abroad. He has presented his research papers at various
International conferences in Spain, Norway, Germany, Singapore, Seoul,
Malaysia, Indonesia, Colombo, Dubai, and Thailand.
He also did a short stint as a news anchor with a private TV
network. His areas of interest include Farm Communication, Commercial Radio
Production, Community Media, Corporate Communication and Marketing.
He was also a Programming / Marketing Consultant for The
Manipal Group, a leading newspaper group in Karnataka for their FM radio
ventures in Karnataka, India.
His publications are largely in the field of Radio and
Social Media, Community Media & development, Alternative Media.
Summary of lecture debriefs and experiential learning
activities:
The first session started with Dr. Padmakumar explaining the
different qualities of the voice artist. He further discussed the process of
woodshedding and various elements of voice artists. He also gave his insights on scripting
structure, the need to know the audience, various conflicts, and delivery
style. He also elaborated on the 9 vocal elements for skill full vocal
delivery, namely Inflection/Deflection, Emphasis, Volume, Pause, Breath,
Phrasing, Flow, Mood, and Energy.
Dr. Padmakumar further engaged the students by demonstrating
various techniques for voice culture. He persuaded the students to come ahead
and try out some of the exercises practically.
In the second session, the students were given a portion of
the script from ‘Finding Dory’. The students were asked to demonstrate all the
vocal elements they learned in the session. All the students were able to
actively participate and contribute to the session.
Student Testimonials:
“It was helpful to develop our voice. He also told us
different exercises that will help us to improve our voice when we do dubbing
for various films. He also helped us to face our stage fears.”
-Nishan. G. Nanil (1st Semester, B. Sc Animation and VFX)
“I learned how to give voice-over clearly. It will also help
us in the future to give seminars. It was inspiring to watch Dr. Padmakumar
speak so fluently while he was teaching us. I also learned that we can express
a lot of feelings through voice.”
-Rakshan R Acharya (1st Semester, B. Sc Animation and VFX)
“He taught us various vocal exercises and he demonstrated it
to us. We could practically try them and feel the differences in our voices. He
also taught us woodshedding where we can get into the character and dub better.
He also taught us how to grab the listener's attention by emphasizing certain
words.”
-Aman Shetty (3rd Semester, B. Sc Digital film making and
VFX)
“The session was very engaging and interesting. It was a
pleasure for us to interact with him and we learned a lot of things which are
very useful in our academic curriculum and also in life. The topics covered
such as dubbing, voice culture, vocal elements, voice exercises and
woodshedding helped a lot in our documentary. It also helped us in improving
our verbal skills and for better communication. I wish we could learn a lot
more from such a great experienced person.”
-Rudresh (3rd Semester, B. Sc Digital film making and VFX)
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