Badinage Productions: Voice Over recording

As our production is done in a 'Planet Earth' nature style documentary, a key element we need to include is the voice over narration of what is going on on screen. The use of a voice over allows for the viewer to clearly see the subject without any distraction, such as would be caused by an on screen narrator, whilst still being told what is going on and having it explained to them.
For our voice over we knew we would need a good, clear recording. As a Music Tech student I knew that college had a Neumann U87 AI microphone, which is a very high end, top quality microphone. We chose to use this rather than a hand held Zoom recorder, as we had used this last year and had problems with some parts of the speech not being distinguishable and clear enough.
Once we had secured the microphone and a studio to use, we asked Alex to record all the voice over segments, with spaces in between so we can cut them up and place them in the correct place using Final Cut.
We recorded using Pro Tools HD. This is a top of the range system, and we knew would give us high quality .wav / .aiff files rather than a compressed .mp3. It also allows us to add effects such as a reverb to thicken Alex's voice and take away from the 'obviously recorded in a studio' feel and add a more polished, finished effect.
I will be added the before and after of the voice over's once I have edited them and added the effects tomorrow.
Here are some pictures of how we set up our recording: