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You may have been writing, crafting and editing the documentary, narrative, e-learning module, on-hold messages/IVR’s (Interactive Voice Responses), explainer or commercial for the voice-over you’ve booked for some time. You’ve probably ‘lived’ with the idea, concept, format and content for perhaps days, weeks or even months, going over and over it to ensure the text says just what you want it say, whether it’s to sell, explain, entertain or extol... View Article

You know what you want to say. You’ve located the definitive voice-over artist you need to read your text, and you’ve decided you want to book them. Should you do so via an online agency they might be registered with? Or is it better to deal direct? There are several different schools of thought for clients wishing to engage a voice-over to read their script… Online Agency Most online agencies... View Article

    Well, am I? I often ask myself, how do I actually know that all the scripts and words I voice for clients – from the likes of the BBC to Fred’s Fish Shop – make me a “good” voice-over? In my 30+ years’ experience in this biz, rarely has any agency person, booking person or client contacted me post-session/recording to say they “really liked what I did”. Or... View Article

    So, you’ve potentially hired a voice-over to promote/inform people about your product or service. You have also probably discussed and agreed a price, talked about a deadline and have an idea as to how you want the v/o to sound when they’re voicing your script. Now, you need a decent script! If you don’t have the necessary skills to write a good script containing the correct number of... View Article

April 1st – I’m standing here at my uppy-downy desk in an endeavour to persuade my phalanges to fly across a wireless keyboard and write this first episode in a new series of blogs, telling tales, tall and true, of my 30 something years worth of experience in the broadcasting and, more specifically, voice-over industry.   Speaking of ‘episodes’, to coin a phrase used at the beginning of many instalments... View Article

The phrase from the title of this blog, ladies and gentlemen, is one which often falls from the lips of many an agency executive, copywriter, writer-writer, client and any number of other people who might gather in a recording studio to direct, brief and/or produce a commercial or narrative, the script for which I’m usually given about two seconds before standing in front of the mike.   Sometimes, the script... View Article

“Sounding British”… One of the main reasons clients book me for a variety of different reads – from radio and TV commercials to audio/visual narrations, documentaries, corporates, online v/o’s and on-hold messages – is because I do “good neutral”. That is, I have a non-offensive (as opposed to inoffensive), non-discernible “accent”. No recognisable dialect or curious inflections are to be found in a quintessential  Greg Marston delivery in the beginning,... View Article

  If you need to hire a voice-over artist for a narration, documentary, radio or TV commercial, website video, guide, e-learning module, YouTube film, explainer, on-hold messaging system etc., it’s not always a straightforward task to be able to find the right voice-over (or “v/o”) for your specific requirements. This BlogPost acts as a basic introduction to help you locate and book the best voice professional for your needs.   ... View Article

  It’s been a while since the last blog-fest, mostly because I’ve been away travelling with my famous voice-over PortaStudio™ via Dubai to the UK and back again. There, I “danced” in my own box to, mostly, my own tune. However, the “dancing voice-over monkey” title of this little blog-ette is something which sprang into my addled brain when I was living and working in the UAE during 2014 and... View Article

“In a world…”.   These are often the 3 words uttered by many well known (and not-so well known) voice-over artists over the past 30 something years at the very beginning of the soundtrack to what’s called the “trailer”, a short clip shown as a precursor to and means of promoting a variety of movies, mostly in the categories of drama, action, thriller, sci-fi, horror – and even sometimes comedy... View Article