#don lafontaine

[haveyouseenthisseries-poll]

[nerds-yearbook]

On May 25, 1997, "Beyond Belief: Fact or Fiction" premiered. ("The Apparition/The Electric Chair/On the Road/Number One With a Bullet", Beyond Belief: Fact or Fiction, TV, event)

[merelymatt]

Reblog to see the back of the embroidery:

If we can get I Need A Miracle trailer to 50 notes, I'll post the unused takes of my bits of the trailer, including the one where I attempt the Don LaFontaine "IN A WORLD" trailer voice

I WILL endure pointing and laughing if it gets this show the audience it deserves!!

@foggyoutline presents I Need A Miracle

An original audio drama produced by @wirelesstheatre

Season 1 begins on 29 August and continues weekly on Thursdays.

Our trailer features the voices of:

Annette Badland

David Holt

@merelymatt

Music by Katharine Seaton

Sound design by Sarah Buchynski

Cover art by Dionysis Livanis

Transcript:

[writeblrsummerfest]

You've introduced your story to us once. Now, I want you to do it again! This time, I want to hear you present it to me as if your story is an up-and-coming blockbuster.

Go all out! What would the name of the presenting studies be? How can you make your prompt match the grandeur of our Old Friend, Movie Preview Narrator? (also known as Don LaFontaine)

[s-sputnik-k]

anyone want to do a fandom swap? specifically with bands/music artists btw

like we give each other a few song recs, maybe an album, and some live content or interviews to get to know them, or even some lore if it's that sort of band. and maybe join like a community like either on tumblr or a discord server to get a feel for the fandom. I just think it'd be neat

here's a few bands I like already:

sleep token

don broco

periphery

dance gavin dance (mainly tilian and current era)

music I like but probably wouldn't know enough about to recommend for this:

vola

bilmuri

loathe

tesseract

I'd really like to try and recommend something I think you'd actually like so if none of this sounds up your alley, then it might not work lol (but also if you're open minded I'm sure there will be something for you here). and vice versa, I'd like for you to pick something you think I may like (of course we can't know for sure, but we can make an educated guess!). I know I've listed some fairly heavy bands, but I do also listen to a lot of less heavy bands, they're just typically lesser known (eg. the lafontaines, slix, dead pony). I'm also intrigued by prog rock, jazz, and fusion so if you'd like to recommend that I'd be totally on board! and I can probably find some technical prog stuff that you'd like

I'm defo open to trying something I've never heard of, but here's some bands I already know I would love to discover:

ghost

lorna shore

spiritbox

bmth

bad omens

eidola

falling in reverse

any band that is playing/has played Radar Festival, ESPECIALLY bands lined up for 2025 because I need to listen to them lmao

so yeah you can reply to this post or hmu in dms if you're interested! I'd probably prefer to talk on discord once we've initially connected

[badgraph1csghost]

I can hear both Scott Rummel (Marvel announcer) and Marc Elliot (”Coming soon to own on videocassette”) reading this.

I was a deer with flowers for horns. If I was in a flower field, I could swap my horns for different kind of flowers.

[gothboylobotomy]

being dehydrated sucks but also if I haven't had enough water I can make my voice sound exactly like Don LaFontaine

[toughpaperround]

George DelHoyo

In 911 fox he plays Ramon Diaz, Eddie's father. He appears first in episode 2x18 but also returns numerous times, most recently for a tentative reconciliation in 6x04.

George was born in 1953 in Uruguay but raised in Utah, USA. He began acting in theatres in New York, when he was also known as George DeLoy. He has appeared in numerous, diverse day player roles throughout the 80's and 90's. He played the villainous character Orpheus in the TV soap 'Days of Our Lives', returning to the role in just the last few years. (youtube clip)

As a bilingual voice actor he has voiced many film trailers and network television promos as well as a few games. Check out his 'Pretty Little Liars' trailer on youtube (the show in which his 'son' went on to star in season 4 😁) - or catch this interesting short interview on youtube where we see his recording set-up in 2010. Notice his animated body language whilst he records, especially compared to the stillness he has as Ramon or Orpheus.

George was also one of several founding members of the Voice-Over Lab, a mentoring foundation in memory of Don 'In-a-World' LaFontaine, and he was part of this SAG-AFTRA panel (youtube)

His wife of many years is the actress Deborah May, who will also be recognised by 911 fans as a guest actor in season 3.

[IMDb] [other 911 cast bios]

[doctortwhohiddles]

Just posting this for reasons

Yup, that's Aeltri. She posted this back in 2012. That means 11 years ago. Strange how she went from hating him to thinking he's a friend of hers.

Here's what it says for those who can't see properly:

It almost seems like every time Benedict goes out in public without someone to reign him in, a PR disaster soon follows. TBH, if I were that socially inept, I'd make like Don LaFontaine and stick to audio narration. I don't care how talented his Tumblr mobdom thinks he is either, his asinine "opinions" on radial/social/economic issues coupled with a Kanye-worthy ego negate any pity I may have felt initially. Which brings me to:

Hypotinia and micropenis, along with a varying degree of feminine body features, are a hallmark of Klinefeller's Syndrom. Klinefeller's is a chromosomal disorder in (phenotypical) males that have a XXY karyotype. If you think about it, they really should be considered intersex individuals, albeit at a purely genetic level. I also remember reading about some health problems Balderdash had while filming. One was linked to a high estrogen level which is yet another sign.

[lizardsfromspace]

When Don LaFontaine, the Movie Trailer Voice Guy, died they stopped doing Movie Trailer Voices entirely, but it's important to note that even though he was the most prolific he was not the only Movie Trailer Voice Guy. There were others who I guess were thrown into his tomb with him so they can join him in the afterlife narrating movie trailers when he's busy with other movie trailers

[nicholasandriani]

Beyond Survival: Music, Cybertext, and Paratext in “The Last of Us. A Three-Part Series In a world teetering on the brink of collapse, Less than a decade ago, you might have envisioned the iconic voice of Don LaFontaine echoing in your mind upon reading such an introduction. Now, as these realities seem inevitable, we’ve lost our sense of what’s purely fictional. The Last of Us” emerges not…

[watching-pictures-move]

Movie Review | The Trout (Losey, 1982)

I understand that this was originally supposed to be made in the '60s with Brigitte Bardot in the lead, and it's interesting to consider how that casting would have completely changed the energy of the overall movie. I won't pretend to be an expert in Bardot's career, but I have seen Contempt and I've seen And God Created Woman, in which her beauty provides the crux of the story. I'll try not to get too regressive here in how I pick this apart, but I think Bardot is attractive in an obvious, conventional way and more so can project a kind of sexual magnetism that makes it easy to understand why other characters would be pulled into her orbit.

Now, I'll bravely stand up like the subject of Norman Rockwell's Freedom of Speech and say that I happen to find Isabelle Huppert quite attractive. (Please applaud my courage during this trying time.) But the way she plays the character here is comparatively icy, poker-faced. The way she responds to the proceedings is primarily bemusement than anything else. Her demeanour, in part due to her age at the time she made this, seems childish. (I also just watched Entre Nous, made only two years later but where she seems at least a decade older, and I'd like to know what kind of witchcraft allowed her to pull that off and then stop aging in the decades since.)

But I think this is less Huppert than the way the movie frames her, as aside from one scene in which she takes off her dress in a bar after a waiter spills a drink on her, it never even tries to capture her distinct sex appeal. The movie's approach is intellectual when it should be lizard-brained and libidinous, thinking with its brains when it should think with its hips, so that we never really understand why characters might be driven to ruin their lives over their desire for her, but merely observe this happen from a mocking distance. I do think there's something interesting in how it captures the transactional nature of sex (a dynamic articulated by the poster's tagline, which is very fun to read in Don LaFontaine's voice), contrasting the heroine's grubby origins in a drab looking trout farm with her entry into more affluent spheres, seen in muted golden hues like in a jewelry store. But again, the movie treats both the heroine and her suitors with too much distance for this to resonate.

[zmeyel]

(Don LaFontaine voice): In a world where meteors made everyone gay, one girl....is straight.

[kick-dickem]

I read this like a Don LaFontaine "in a world..." trailer and was a little confused

In a world of people who move on from a television show the moment it ends someone who rewatches and liveblogs the same show routinely and freaks out over things they’ve seen ten times already is not only a necessity but a treasure

[motivacionyentretenimiento]

Don LaFontaine

Hollywood Video – Don LaFontaine – 1998 – 4K Remaster

[twnenglish]

The Impact of AI on the Future of Voice-Overs

The Impact of AI on the Future of Voice-Overs

Being a voice-over artist is an art. It’s a skill everyone will believe that they can do, but only a select few can.

Indeed, you might have thought to yourself at one point, “How hard can it be to talk over or narrate something?” If you haven’t ever tried it, then you’ll have no idea how skilled it is.

If you’ve ever watched film trailers - which it is almost impossible not to have - then you’ll know of one of the most iconic voices in the gig. Don LaFontaine was the “movie trailer guy” according to some, with the artist being credited with the “In a world…” phrase because of his deep, dulcet tones.

However, is the age of the voice-over profession dying? Is it one that is coming to an end? As technology develops and new advancements are being experienced, there’s potential of this being the case…

How can AI impact voice-over artists?

Artificial intelligence is everywhere. Although it’s impact feels relatively new, it’s been around for ages. It’s just continuing to develop at a rapid speed.

Generative AI is one form of the technology that is among the forerunners of the industry, especially when it comes to content creation and providing answers to questions. You may have noticed there are various instances whereby it has been used, including as a replacement for voice-over artists.

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