Yay to starting my day today as the voiceover for ads saying various Australian tourism regions are ‘good to go’. Each and every ‘we are open/ back/ doing well’ ad I get to voice is a beautiful thing for me – I love voicing ads and sadly many commercial budgets got washed down the drain […]
Voiceovers go viral – Finding a safe voice in an outbreak of newbies
Since things went Corona Crazy, voiceover forums have been inundated with questions and comments like: ‘My Grandma’s podiatrist said I have a nice voice, so I’ve decided to be a voiceover. Where do I get clients?’ and ‘I’ve borrowed Fido’s blanket and hung it over a dining room chair, so that’s my studio sorted. Look, […]
Out of office. From in the studio.
Tis the season…. for the out of office telephone message. Lots of lucky folk are vacating the building for the holidays. This week I voiced countless out of office messages, though technically there were out of office, out of farm machinery workshop, out of dental surgery, out of yoga studio, out of […]
“My Birthday” by Dani Bellamy – aged mumble years and one day old
I woke up at 3.38am on my birthday, thanks to the beeping smoke detector. Do smoke detector batteries ever die outside of the hours of 2am and 4am? Not ever in my experience. I then woke up at 5.12am when a cat stepped on my boob. Luckily for him, he is so adorable he […]
Voiceovers should be heard and not seen.
There I was submitting for a voiceover job, which, IMHO, I would have been perfect for. Voice demo on point. Cover letter on point. Then – ‘Upload headshot here’. Noooooooooooo! I don’t want to play anymore. Like pretty much everybody, except certain reality TV ‘stars’, I’m well aware of my physical imperfections. However I don’t […]