Those innane commentaries seem below the level that I would expect from a police helicopter pilot or copilot, they even seem too scripted for a newsperson. Are these dubbed over by TV personalities, or are they actually live recordings of some idiot?
The ones on Fox? The Wildest Police Chase ones? That’s Sheriff John Banel(sp?), a retired Sheriff from Los Angelos County, California.
I think he looks like an Oompa Loompa in the face.
I think it’s Bunnell, maybe. Don’t they all have the exact same narration for the same chase scenes, I’m pretty sure they do. They really sound like they were made in a sound booth.
I’ve seen other Wildest Chases-type shows that weren’t done by Fox. A big feature of them was the Helicopter view of the chase, in which the helicopter reporter (I don’t think it was the pilot) would give a rundown of the events as they unfolded. They were all narrated in this sort of hokey breathlessness, as if this were the most exciting thing ever, and made frequent reference to the police code for high speed chases (which I’ve since forgotten). I just remember finding them really annoying, and really repetitive, but unfortunately, if that’s what the OP is thinking of, I can’t remember the name of the series.
I see that I was unclear. Knowing the person’s name would be icing on the cake, I’m just looking for the agency that the narrator is working for.
Not sure what you’re asking… but the guy on “Wildest Police Chases” is working for the FOX television network. None of what you hear is actual police footage or live commentary from pilots or reporters. The video footage is real (except when it’s a staged re-enactments) but all of the audio – narration and sound effects – is dubbed in during production.
If you don’t think it’s inane, try listening to it without watching the video. hard to find production values that low outside of public access TV. Or alternatively, try watching with the sound turned down, and you’ll notice how heavily edited the video is. They cut the footage and run it out of order for dramtic effect – look at the timestamp and you’ll see. They’re also fond of re-using footage, showing the same ten-second clip over and over again, to make a 30 second chase look like a five minute event.
I seem to recall that they guy you’re thinking of (not Sheriff Bunell, but the other ubiquitious voice) started out as a news and/or traffic helicopter reporter in LA and some of the earlier car chase tapes from LA were his live, overexcited, on-the-air play-by-play.
The tv show producers loved it and started having him dub in more and more to up the excitement level, and soon they had him faking “live” descriptions of car chases from all over the country that he’d never seen except on the tape they showed him. After a while his commentary was so over the top that it sounded like he was doing a parody of himself.
I’ve posted about this on a previous thread…
The funniest dubbing ever on “Wildest Police Chases” was when they used footage from a police chase in Oxford. They dubbed on a helicopter pilot with the worse English accent ever. They also added the sound of Big Ben striking in the background (cos you can hear that in Oxford all the way from London) and 1970s style sirens (cos in the world of police technology the UK is 30 years in the past.)
80% of everything you hear on these programmes are dubbed on extras.