I WORK IN THE VOICE OVER INDUSTRY AS A(N)
Voice Actor
HERE'S A LITTLE ABOUT ME AND MY VOICE OVER EXPERIENCE
Student actor Mountview Theatre, London, then BBC studios and filming, journalist, community fm radio pres and street interviews. Now with own studio in south-west England, busy with narration, long-form stories, web explainers.
RECENTLY BOOKED PROJECTS
UK national TV ad, tourist guides and history DVDs, children's story interpreted for IE9 launch - awarded five stars! BBC trailer. Voice of 'Inadequate Ingrid' for Zagg Corp - video won an Addy Gold 2011. Books: World of Ryyah romance by H.L. Watson, Truman by Roy Jenkins, Seeing Red by Prof Nick Humphrey.
VOICE DESCRIPTION
BBC used to sum it up, but characters continue to emerge. Baritone, 45-100, warm, playful, dramatic, trustworthy.
DIALECTS, Character voices and vocal impressions
Brit RP, or suburban flat. Mild Welsh where appropriate (deep fan, Dylan Thomas), Old Geezer, pompous judge, streetcar murderer, louche lover, young South African hero, despotic Lord, prominent Brits - e.g. H.G. Wells, Clement Attlee, Wing Cdr Ronald Adam, Harold MacMillan, Winston Churchill, and some royals. Cartoon elementals. Improv Orcan babble anytime.
VOICES I AM ABLE TO PERFORM
Senior Male, Middle Age Male, Young Adult Male
Union Affiliation
Non-affiliated
AUDIO DELIVERY METHOD
FTP, AIF, MP3, WAV
EQUIPMENT
ipDTL connection. Coles BBC ribbon, Rode NT1A capacitor, Safesound pre. iMac OSX 10.8.5 Lion + backup drive. Twisted Wave, Izotope, phonepatch, Sennheiser cans + valve monitoring. Good narration acoustic. Squeaky chair, is anybody perfect?
Comments
Hey Howard - why thank ye...
Gosh, Peachy Farmer are the Exeter favourite aren't they! You weren't down at Double Lox wereyou by any chance??
Well the VO thing was a natural byproduct of working in a live broadcasting environ (presenter & various other bits n pieces). Left it for a while & decided to pick up again a few years back. The idea of home recording was a stumbling block for me for a while, as used to all the bangs & whistles & high-end stuff of inhouse production studios, I just thought 'Ohmy lord, I cannot do that!". & with some strong & sensible words from folks in the know, I realised it was totally do-able.
Actually, when I lived down there & decided with some encouragement, to get back 'into it', a friend in a very high place within G-cap intro'd me to the Gemini lot. (I think it was a case of 'see this woman, she is good. see her because I say so') & I looked forward to maybe doing some swing shifts etc, & then it was allchange - all stations up for sale & things went static...& I moved back to the living (Bristol), cuz Ex was just doing my head in. I was missing 'culture' & breadth of experience/thought. Now of course back in London, I crave that landscape & being able to go to the beach for a swim - painful!
I tell ya what, sad affair for radio down there yes - my paper recycling has more personality than the guy on the afternoon shift at gemini. anyway... glad that phonic got the perma license.
My desire is to do more character stuff. I would love to get into the world of gaming.
So, a village north...not Silverton is it??
:)S
Hey hi howdy Howard.
What's all this talk about Exeter then? I used to live there myself & was down vising in April!
Loves it I does :-D
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