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Documentary VO narration
Voice over for a Dutch documentary I’ve been working again with Nynke La Porte at Izzyworks in Amsterdam. This time she asked me to provide an English voice over narration for two short documentary style films. The focus of the films is a man called Dolf who has mental read more
Making voicereels for gaming
Voice over tips When I’m not doing my own voice over work I hire out my recording studio for recording projects. I mostly concentrate on spoken word and voice projects. Recently I’ve been asked to help a number of voice artists record and produce demos specifically for the video read more
Good advice if you use your voice
Using your voice more effectively I’m a great fan of TED talks and this is one I watched recently that has great advice for voice over artists or indeed anyone using their voice. It’s from a talk given a few years ago by writer and sound expert Julian Treasure. read more
VO for HF Holidays TV ad
Voice over for TVC Towards the end of last year I was booked to record a voice over for a TV commercial for outdoor holiday and activity provider H F Holidays. I recorded the voice over in my studio in a directed ISDN session with Pangaea TV. After the read more
New IVR phone messages
More voice over work I’ve been the on-hold/IVR voiceover for Legal and General since 2013. They are a large well established brand who are involved in supporting many other insurance related brands and so most months I record quite a number of new message prompts for them. This month read more
A “swift vo” goes on-line
Speedy turnaround for video narration I was getting ready for a directed voice over session with TMP Audio Post Production in Sweden yesterday. I already had the script from the client and was going through marking it up with some notes ready for the session. While I was doing read more
A dream console for recording studio engineers
The legendary studio mixing desk As an owner of a small recording studio I have a life-long interest in recording equipment including microphones, tape machines, audio interfaces and, of course, studio mixing consoles. My attention was recently drawn to an interesting on-line video documentary about one of the legendary read more
Importance of video on websites
Online video is even more effective with a voice over Almost every internet marketeer that you come across will tell you how essential it is to have video on your website. They say it generally makes potential customers stay longer and they may learn more about your goods or read more
Radio shipping forecast used in short story
More from the world of radio As a former radio presenter and long time radio “anorak” I was interested to hear a short story over the weekend on BBC Radio 4 billed as “A continuity announcer veers drastically off course during a live broadcast of the Shipping Forecast”. I read more
New Look Website for 2018
New design for VO website My website has undergone a transformation today thanks to some great work by web designer Duncan Arrow over the last week or so. After a period of research and planning. The new website was put together offline and modified and tweaked before uploading today. read more