How to voice a tear-jerker
A listener, weeping. Sometimes voiceovers are asked to create real emotion. Like, real emotion. Sometimes a script demands that I have to cry. Actual tears! Now there’s nothing worse than listening to...
View ArticleScripts I really can’t voice
Sometimes I’m asked to voice things I just can’t voice. Or at least, I can’t voice them straight off. Mainly because I’m an emotional ball of teary snot. I really struggled with these commercials....
View ArticleA poem for our times
I first started out at 16 reading poetry for BBC Radio 4. It was really how I started out as a vocal performer. The producer I worked with was Alfred Bradley, a legendary producer who taught me so, so...
View ArticleI’ll warn you, this is a tear-jerker
I *love* cats. For the first time in my life, after the loss of our noble Einstein (pictured left, in ‘weekend’ attire) I am without a cat. I have a dog, who I adore, but I miss being owned by a...
View Article“Can you sound 30% more ‘red lipstick’?”– a voiceover playlist of contrast...
A voiceover showreel isn’t like a wallpaper pattern book. Each style of voice we’re asked to do isn’t limited or prescriptive. The voice is subtle and professional voiceovers are trained respond to...
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