voiceover
eLearning logistics – how to create files in seconds
The eLearning Challenge! If you’re a voiceover artist that works in eLearning, you’ll know that one of the more trickier aspects of it is coping with the need to split and name sometimes hundreds of files. Splitting and individually naming files can sometimes take longer than the recording itself and ultimately, time not spent behind…
Read MoreCharacter Voiceover Tip: Build a library
Prepare your character stable! One of the most important things you can do to increase your capabilities is to actually document what you already know and build a character library. Your character library will be your rolodex of voices that you can “turn on” immediately and be the go to resource when you need to…
Read MoreCharacter Voiceover Tips: Learning an Accent
Don’t learn an accent in character One of the biggest problems with accents and character voices is that it’s very difficult to disassemble them when they’ve been learnt together. What I mean by this is that if you create a character called “Friendly Scottish Nanny” you might find you have trouble doing a Scottish accent without…
Read MoreChasing my voiceover dreams
Dreams are made to be chased “Whatever you want to be you already are, all you have to do, is do” Hi everyone, no fancy intros this time, no character tips, just me talking to you in the hope I can inspire just one of you to follow your dreams. I want to tell you…
Read MoreCharacter Voiceover Tips: Ad-Libbing
Ad Lib in Character So part of being able to have a character voiceover sound genuine is to ensure it sounds natural, when someone is “putting on” a character voice you can hear it a mile away and it immediately breaks the illusion and the character is no longer believable because you can “hear past”…
Read MoreThe new studio is open for business!
9 months is a long time in voiceover 9 months of planning and 9 weeks of build time and my new voiceover studio is finally open for business! A fully equipped, professional soundproofed voiceover studio had been on my list of goals since I started in voice over so it’s a very overwhelming feeling to…
Read MoreWhy worry is a waste of time…
How much do you think we know about the world we live in? 10%? 5%? I bet the answer is probably somewhere closer to 0.01% and yet when something negative happens we can all too often only see what’s in front of our face and forget the other 99.99% of things happening in the world.…
Read MoreADR and Game of Throats…
Over the recent months I have begun to explore a new area of voiceover which is Automated Dialogue Replacement or ADR. ADR is the process in which sound from original recordings is re-recorded in a studio after filming and is commonly used across TV and film to either replace lines that weren’t recorded on the…
Read MoreIt was once in a lifetime…
Video at the bottom for those in a rush 🙂 So the time has come that I can finally share what I got up to in San Francisco at the end of August, this was a once in a lifetime trip and so much went on that this is a bit of a long one…
Read MoreGoodbye Mr. Williams
Two weeks have passed now since Robin Williams left us and with an 11hr flight ahead of me I finally feel like I’ve got the time necessary to write a blog post to do him justice. I was heartbroken when I heard of Robins passing, I hoped that it was just a horrible hoax but…
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