For Promotional Purposes

The HQvoice Hound Pound is now available! Next month I am attending a conference/networking event/social occasion specifically for VOs and audio producers in glamorous Leicestershire and was advised to take some sort of advertising material. From amongst the myriad mousemats, flashdrives, dongles and gizmos, I chose trolley coins – little pound coin sized discs for use in supermarket trollies and lockers. Or, simply, as a nice keyring. I also liked that they resemble a dog tag, which is why Brian ...

Audio Sci Fi Geekery

Alongside my regular, paid voiceover work, I like to indulge in amateur radio drama. There I said it. This is pretty anoraky stuff, but it’s no worse than collecting radio jingles… The work is mostly unpaid, though some do pay a token few quid. Mostly I’m happy to do these amateur recordings gratis, because frankly, I love doing them. I get to read scripts that are much more lively to do than the straight corporate reads I normally do, and ...

HQvoice: The Logo

Although I was pretty happy with my company logo that I cobbled together last year, I decided I needed something original, not a half-arsed cut paste job I did myself. So using the joyous medium of social networking, I tracked down a friend of a friend: Scott Stephenson at Lexia Studios who cheerfully accommodated my demands and nit-picking while I made up my mind what I wanted. Ultimately, he came up with this: Which I officially love to bits. It’s ...