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Building my perfect recording space: Take a tour around my professional home voiceover studio
Back in the mists of time, all professional voiceover artists recorded in commercial studios. In fact, the idea of recording anything anywhere else was regarded as a bit bonkers until relatively recently, not least because ISDN – the only option in the pre-Source-Connect era – at home was an enormous investment. I’m of an age…
Read MoreTV commercial: The woman from Del Monte!
Creating a tv commercial remotely Del Monte is currently on air with their first product-focused TV commercial in more than 30 years, and I’m thrilled to be the voiceover. Being a woman of a certain vintage, Del Monte fruit cocktail with its bright red cherries was a mainstay of my childhood, and who doesn’t love…
Read MoreVoice Over AI is Coming, but is it Human Enough?
Change is hard. And change is definitely coming to the creative industries. Will you be embracing it and making it work for you, or are you still hoping it all goes away? When I started working in audio I was recording to tape and editing with a pencil and blade. I was pretty thankful when…
Read MoreYou want to be a voiceover?
Someone told you you’ve got a great voice, and now you want to be a voice over actor? Let’s start by assuming you have a modicum of talent, a glimmer of potential. You can read out loud, fluently. You have great ears, you’ll need to do a lot of listening. You can roll with the…
Read MoreHire an established voiceover
I’m an established voiceover. I’ve been around the block a few times, built a number of voiceover booths, worked with my kids, and tried my hand at most genres of voiceover. I still remember when I was trusted to voice my first national radio campaign, and that aired 20 years ago! Once all three of…
Read More6 steps to creating voiceover for a video
There are a few different ways of working on a video project. Sometimes, a client will simply provide the script and some guidance, and will then edit their video to fit. More often, the video already exists and the voiceover needs to match fairly closely for time and pace. This is a project I worked…
Read MoreStart with a great script
I love communicating with written words. I spent some of my teens writing press releases for local arts events, and wrote for the local paper too. If the internet had existed back then, I would definitely have been an obsessive blogger. I spent a year working for a music management company and wrote press releases…
Read MoreCan we talk about what a professional home studio for voiceover really is?
There’s been a lot of talk on Twitter today about voiceovers working from their professional home studios in the wake of the Coronavirus outbreak. Large studios have had to close and those voiceovers that usually work their way around the London circuit now have no place to work. Lovely as it might sound, setting up…
Read MoreYour Safe Space: a guided meditation
As I imagine many of you are, I’m feeling quite anxious at the moment. I’m making sure I practice Transcendental Meditation twice a day, get some sunshine on my face as soon as I spot any, and try not to endlessly feed myself news from social media. I know that as a voice over I’m…
Read MoreHow Can I Help?
For many of us this is a question at the forefront of our minds right now. In my local area I’ve been enormously lifted by the creative, community-spirited efforts being put in by small businesses that could just as easily crumble and disappear under the pressure. Finding ways to continue to serve our neighbours, offer…
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