Daylight saving ends this weekend. The implied end of warm sunny days and looming winter gloom always leaves me a little sad. But an extra hour’s sleep makes me very happy! How best to embrace that bonus hour of snoozing? Slap those sleepy eyeballs onto this video I supplied the voiceover for. […]
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Tales from the studio.
Story Time – Voicing Children’s Books is Fun
I’ve been a book lover from all the way back when I was too tiny to do the reading myself, and had the good fortune to be born into a family who believed in reading to babies. With that lucky start, it is perhaps inevitable that I ended up working with words. I remember long […]
Keep Captain Obvious from your advertising
The limited time in your radio, television or online advertising should be used wisely. Don’t let Captain Obvious steal a moment of it. Who is Captain Obvious? Captain Obvious is a seemingly benevolent, but ultimately evil villain who swoops into advertising copy and steals precious seconds. Let me give you an example I heard […]
Hold the phone number
The easiest thing to cut from a tight commercial script When it comes to voicing radio and tv ads, most make their way to me via an agency or production house, so I rarely have any say in the writing of the script. However, when an advertiser works directly with me and they […]
Leaping with joy to be the voice of Speech Frog’s Software Platform
Every time a client entrusts me with voicing their project, it is an enormous honour in which I take great pride and joy. However, every so often a voiceover job brings with it additional warm and fuzzies. A project I have been working on over the past month is exactly one of these. I am […]