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 […]
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Tales from the studio.
“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 […]
Oh look! Here’s a fun video I voiced for eBay
Voicing this video for eBay was a lot of fun. Directions from the client included ‘Can we make it sound even MORE bogan?’ Yep just another day at the office.
The Directed Voice Over Session
Working from my own recording studio, 99% of the voiceover work I do is self-directed. The script may contain a few directions regarding the style required, words or lines that need emphasising and any tricky pronunciations, but otherwise I’m left to my own devices to transform the script into a convincing message that will gently […]