Is that voiceover script as polished and booth-ready as you thought? Will that script trip off the voiceover artist’s tongue? Or will it trip them up? Perhaps there’s even a line for which the director is going to need countless retakes because something indefinable isn’t quite right in the delivery. Read more…
Why you should sensitivity-check your script… I’ve written previously about fine-tuning a script for voiceover so that it’s booth-ready and there are no unexpected issues when you’ve paid out for a recording session. This is something slightly different. I’d like to think that most creative teams, scriptwriters and clients commissioning Read more…
How much does a voiceover cost? Let’s keep this as simple as we can. Because there’s no single, set price for hiring a voiceover artist, any more than there is any other creative, professional or tradesperson. There are, thankfully, some general guiding principles on pricing and the way professional voiceover Read more…
Inconsequential – a poem… One take, one recording, no editing but to trim the act of starting and stopping the video. Sometimes a voiceover script is naturally rhythmic in nature, melodic in flow, poetic in picturing the scene it sets. Sometimes, it’s my job as a voice artist to lift Read more…
How to brief a voiceover artist effectively and efficiently… Nailing down a comprehensive brief for your voiceover artist is essential if you want first-rate results fast. Without it, you risk time-consuming back-and-forth questions and answers, delivery styles which don’t achieve what you were hoping for, multiple retakes, a lengthy session Read more…