I’ve recently recorded the voice-over narration for an on-line video for a pharmaceutical company. It was a voice over for an information video showing medical staff the correct way to administer a testosterone hormone injection.  The production company sent me a video reference so I could see the final video footage itself and use it’s original voice over guide track to give me the correct pronunciation of a various technical and medical terms.

Briefly it was a video showing a guy getting an injection in his backside.  I’m generally not that comfortable with needles and injections so I wasn’t particularly keen with watching the video while I was recording the voice-over in my booth.  There was a moment when I thought perhaps I was starting to feel pretty queasy – when the video showed what happened when you got blood in the syringe (I means you’ve hit a blood vessel! You have to pull the needle out and start again in the other buttock)

However shortly after recording the voice over I found out what  “feeling queasy” really feels like – I watched the first episode or Utopia on Channel 5 and I can confirm that the 4 and half minutes of the torture scene involving a guy’s eyes, chillies, sand, bleach and a spoon was a definition of really gut wrenching –  I was proper queasy I can tell you.
After that a needle stuck in a guy’s bum with a drop of blood in it seemed pretty tame!

The video was produced by DDB Remedy