#7

we should do a voiceover challenge

Someone posts up a generic Script and everyone who wants to take part posts up their version using soundcloud or youtube or whatever

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#8

That sounds like a great idea!

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#9

Very well, where do I begin? My father was a relentlessly self-improving boulangerie owner from Belgium with low grade narcolepsy and a penchant for buggery. My mother was a fifteen year old French prostitute named Chloe with webbed feet. My father would womanize, he would drink, he would make outrageous claims like he invented the question mark. Some times he would accuse chestnuts of being lazy, the sort of general malaise that only the genius possess and the insane lament. My childhood was typical, summers in Rangoon, luge lessons. In the spring we’d make meat helmets. When I was insolent I was placed in a burlap bag and beaten with reeds, pretty standard really. At the age of 12 I received my first scribe. At the age of fourteen, a Zoroastrian named Vilma ritualistically shaved my testicles. There really is nothing like a shorn scrotum, it’s breathtaking, I suggest you try it.

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#10

I was thinking more

“big big savings on BBQs and lawnmowers this weekend at B&Q!”

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#12

Starnow, Facebook and word of mouth.

#13

Do you have a lovely sonorous voice?

#14

I didn’t know where the original was from until Googling it after recording.

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#15

Just a little update on this. I’ve looked into it more and have decided to spend the money and sign up to voice123 in a few months (after my stuff arrives overseas). Voices.com seems to be the other big one, but I’ve read some bad things about that site, so will stick to 123. From the look of the rates, one or two voiceover jobs would cover the annual fee, and British accents are generally in higher demand. You don’t even have to have a particularly ‘good’ voice, for a lot of the stuff they just want someone who sounds ‘average’.

I’ve got a Logic template that I’ve created after watching a few YouTube vids on how to create a voiceover preset which I’m happy to share with anyone who’s interested, though I’m sure many of you will be fine putting one together yourselves.

Only reason I’m posting in this thread again is that there are a lot of people here who probably have quite pro-setups who may not have considered doing this, yet it’s pretty easy to do.

#16

You haven’t ever seen Austin Powers? This is frankly SCANDALOUS.

#17

I’ve seen it, but am not one of those people who remembers quotes and things like that.

One of my ex-workmates was obsessed with just throwing film / TV quotes into general conversation, would generally be a massive conversation killer where the only response is “that’s nice”.

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#18

I just feel like that shorn scrotum line is one that sticks with you…

#19

Now I’ve just got sad remembering he told that tale to Carrie Fisher :cry:

#20

Well this has been a rollercoaster

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#22

Why would you think that?

#24

Hope your show reel thing is just you saying squidpan over and over a variety of different ways.

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#25

Well I’m learning as I go, so advice like this is great!

#27

Nice! Do you recommend a foam shield, or think something more substantial would be better?

#28

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#29

wo.

#30

Yeah, I have come to the realisation that I really don’t know what I’m talking about with all this, so probably best to ignore me :grinning: