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Movie trailers voiced by men

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TunipTheVegemal · 06/03/2012 10:47

They are, aren't they? I'd never even noticed before - duh!

BBC article about it

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ArtexMonkey · 06/03/2012 10:55

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TunipTheVegemal · 06/03/2012 11:02

yeah I loved the bit where she showed you all the different voices she could do! And her hat was good.

It was depressing though wasn't it, the 'Science has shown men are perceived as more trustworthy' man, and then the Media Studies chap had a good response to that but it was still two MEN talking.

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SmellsLikeTeenStrop · 06/03/2012 14:13

I'd hazard a guess that the reason male voices are considered more trustworthy is due to lack of exposure to authoritative female voices, oh and hundreds of years of Christian influence which forbade women from teaching on the grounds they were more easily deceived or something.

HandDivedScallopsrgreat · 06/03/2012 14:27

That'll be the same "Science" debunked by Cordelia Fine. Women's voices are deemed trustworthy in those environments deemed appropriate for women e.g. housework, dieting, make-up, children and anything caring (just listening to the voice-overs on some ads at the mo). Car adverts and anything "technical", men all the way.

SardineQueen · 06/03/2012 14:29

The other thing overlooked is that it's not just "male voice" that gets the voiceovers, but "ridiculously deep gravelly american male voice" which the vast majority of men don't have either and couldn't imitate!

There have been loads of pisstakes about that super-deep voiceover voice I don't know if anyone else has seen any!

Other thing that strikes me is that men and women preferring men's voices and seeing them as trustworthy is in fact an excuse - given that many many ads are voiced over by females and if anyone knows what people like / trust / listen to it's advertisers. So on that basis I think the real reason is - as the woman in the piece said - "if it aint broke don't fix it" - it's just the way things are done. Would be good to get a variety of different voices in there.

SardineQueen · 06/03/2012 14:31

We also have female newsreaders, weather forecasters, reporters etc etc.

If it were really true that both men and women preferred to listen to men, and found women untrustworthy, there would quite simply not be any. Or any female politicians, or anything.

KRITIQ · 06/03/2012 21:14

I thought voiceovers were done by the same man. They all sound exactly the same.

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