chandolaswinter

I got a lot from this. Thanks for the feedback.

Sbbn -- a voiceover is when a character addresses the audience directly like a narrator. When a character is heard but not seen onscreen I would use OS, never VO which implies narrator duties. But different strokes for different folks...

Here's a professional's take on it:

"V.O. is used when the speaker is not physically in the scene. This could be because the speaker is on the other end of a telephone line or radio broadcast, the speaker is an unseen narrator, or the speaker is a character’s inner-monologue.

This last example is important to note, as it is somewhat counter-intuitive: if an on-screen character’s thoughts are heard, it is V.O., not O.S.

If there is pre-lap dialogue,...