Prometheus On-Hold
You know when that handful of corporate voicemail greetings you recorded turn out to be part of a major Hollywood movie viral promotional campaign? Well, that. I couldn’t quite tick the box marked, “voice of a spaceship computer” but it came very close. I thought the script didn’t look quite right. The messages seemed… a bit scifi, to be honest. One of them directed callers to a website, so I thought I’d take a look. There, I found and watched ...
Getting a Head for Voiceovers
New year, same old puns in the title…. This post is a rather contrite follow up to my “Favourite Voice Over Performances” post I wrote a few weeks ago, which upon reading, the Other Half pointed out that I’d missed one of the most iconic and distinctive Voiceovers EVAH – Richard Burton’s portentous and charismatic narration on Jeff Wayne’s “War Of The Worlds” musical concept album, based on the HG Wells novel. Whoops. So it’s now belatedly included in a ...
Favourite Voice Over Performances
I was a guest on the Earshot Creative podcast this week – only time will tell if I made a tit of myself, (it’s published in the next week or two) but one of the tasks a guest is allocated prior to the recording is to find a piece of audio that has inspired them and talk about it on the podcast. So I went looking for voiceover inspiration. It’s harder than it sounds. So many voices you hear nowadays ...
