I’ve had a bit of an on-again, off-again project on the go since early 2019, the long and short of which is, I’ve written a book! It was fairly unexpected and I kind of did this inadvertently, as in reality, a few notes I was making pretty much got out of hand! Those notes quickly…
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How To Write Effective Voiceover Scripts
Let’s talk voice over scripts. I’ll caveat this blog post by declaring from the very start, that this doesn’t relate to everybody! The vast majority of scripts that I, and most voice over artists receive will generally be great! Well written, well formatted scripts, with excellent direction included, with adequate pauses for us to breathe,…
Things A Voiceover Doesn’t Need – An Ear Infection
To be a voice over artist, there are a multitude of things you need. A place to use as your studio. Acoustic treatment and/or soundproofing to ensure a good quality, excellent sounding acoustically ‘dead’ recording space. A good quality microphone that suits your vocal tone well. A Preamp to get that mic talking to your…
Fully Available Throughout Lockdown 3
First of all, Happy New Year! The first couple of days of 2021 felt slightly cathartic in a way; a new chapter, hope on the horizon with vaccines rolling out, a glimpse of life eventually coming back to normal in the distance, with a light at the end of the tunnel. But that was marred…
Unaffected And Available – Working From Home During Lockdown
It’s clear that the world is a bit unpredictable at the moment, with millions of people around the world being forced to work from home during this period of lockdown. For a lot of people, that means enduring a hell of a wrench, and a very different way of working. It can be incredibly difficult…
The Importance Of Music Licensing
Guest blog, written by Mark Malekpour | Content Manager, Beatsuite.com Music Library Music licensing commonly refers to ‘royalty free music‘ or ‘production music’. This is music that has been written and produced with the sole purpose of being used in another project. Anyone can then license this music for a fee, to use in their…
Mobile Advertising Outweighs TV
In a report published by WARC recently, it found that in the 3rd quarter of 2017, mobile advertising in its various forms outweighed traditional TV advertising for the first time ever; with almost one in four pounds spent on advertising going to mobile. That’s quite big news! Now of course, they do go on to state…
Seeing Past VO Jobs Get Good Views
After doing some meandering on YouTube the other day, I spotted in the ‘up next’ scroll on the right hand side, a voice over I recorded a year or so ago for a mattress company named Bruno. I hadn’t seen the video since the job was completed and had it sent through to me ahead…
Canva – The Documentary
As many of you will probably know due to previous blog posts of mine, I’m a massive fan of Canva, the online graphic design tool. It’s managed to help people with zero (like me) graphic design skills, create good looking visual content very quickly and easily. I heard about a documentary they were featuring in…
Voice Replication via AI – Time To Start Worrying?
Yesterday I stumbled across a tweet mentioning a website called Lyrebird. It appears to be an artificial intelligence (A.I.) service that can replicate or clone the human voice; enabling you to make a voice say whatever you want it to. It’s not long ago something like this would be completely in the realms of science…