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🆕 voice over trend alert: slam poetry⁣ ⁣ Over the last month-ish, I’ve had 3 scripts calling for a slam poetry and/or spoken word style voice over. ⁣ ⁣ So what is slam and spoken word?⁣ ⁣ It’s performance poetry. There’s energy, emotion, power and passion. It uses pauses and changes in pace and volume for emphasis and drama. And it requires a confident delivery of a thought-provoking script.⁣ ⁣ When should you slam your voice over?⁣ ⁣ ▶️ Emotive social campaign advertising—like those aiming to stop drink driving or highlight the dangers of drugs.⁣ ⁣ ▶️ Sports advertising—think big arenas and tales of triumph like at the Olympics.⁣ ⁣ ▶️ Fitness and health advertising—where you can tell a powerful story of transformation.⁣ ⁣ Word of warning though, the script is also critical to the performance. It needs to have a rhythm, employ the right poetic devices and use strong, emotive language. And give your voice actor some creative licence to tweak if it improves flow and rhythm.⁣ ⁣ ➡️ swipe right for a stunning slam voice over ⁣ ⁣ ⁣

Any idea what your gear is worth? Do you know exactly what you have? Or where to start if you had to replace it all?⁣ ⁣ Mics, headphones, computers, preamps, cables, pop filters, mic stands. Oh my.⁣ ⁣ My bushfire survival plan is ‘get the eff out and leave all my shit behind’. So for my plan, I needed a full inventory of all my gear. A record of exactly what crap I have should the worst happen and I need to put in an insurance claim.⁣ ⁣ Now I fancy a spreadsheet as much as the next nerd, but hello 2020, of course there’s an app for that.⁣ ⁣ In fact there are a bunch of inventory apps that let you take photos, record prices, upload receipts, even add make, model and serial numbers.⁣ ⁣ And while inventorying away, I was astounded at how many recording do-dads I’ve amassed over the years. And yes Marie Kondo, it all sparks buttloads of joy so rack off already.⁣ ⁣ But there’s no way I’d remember every single one of those joy sparks off the top of my head if was all destroyed. ⁣ ⁣ Yep, making an inventory is a pain in the arse. It takes ages going around photographing and adding everything in (I pulled an all-nighter for it). ⁣ ⁣ But you know what’s more of a pain in the arse? Trying to remember everything you own while going through the trauma of a break in,⁣ flood, fire, cyclone or earthquake.⁣ ⁣

A #voiceover #dollypartonchallenge so you’re gonna need sound on 🔈⁣ ⁣

Galah. A lesson in how to speak Australian.⁣ ⁣ Pronunciation:⁣ guh-laa ⁣ [swipe across for audio pron]⁣ ⁣ Definition:⁣ 1. a small Australian cockatoo with a grey back and rosy pink head and underparts.⁣ 2. a stupid person.⁣ ⁣ Usage: ⁣ You’re a flamin’ galah if you don’t BBQ, watch cockroach races, get smashed by midday and slap at least 20 Australia-themed temporary tattoos over your body ... cause Straya Day ⁣ ⁣ Deets on these adorbs earrings:⁣ @mollycm⁣ ⁣

You can’t argue with stack of pirates and a Billy Ocean.⁣ ⁣

My 5 year old son calls this my circus hat.⁣ ⁣ Probably quite apt for the mum bum I quickly shove in when my day is a bit too doot doot doodle oodle oot doot do do for a hairstyle.⁣ ⁣ Also v apt for tonight’s voice over session where I got to play a ringmaster.⁣ ⁣ Man, that shiz is hard on the old vocal cords. I totally get why Danny DeVito was so cranky in Dumbo.⁣ ⁣ Someone chuck me a Strepsil pls...⁣ ⁣

Face masks used to incite a double take and bucket load of questions from me.⁣ ⁣ Did this person just remove an appendix and forget to take their mask off before leaving the ER?⁣ ⁣ Is this a new diet where you lose weight because you can’t shove anything into your mouth?⁣ ⁣ Was this person shammed after excitedly regaling their weekend adventures and a little spittle flew out of their mouth and landed on Greg from accounts’ cheek?⁣ ⁣ And is that elastic digging in worse than that time my mum added a minuscule length of hat elastic to my legionnaires hat so it wouldn’t end up at the foot of a cliff at Camp Birrigai?⁣ ⁣ Wonder no more me. I’ve become a face mask convert. When you rely on your voice for a living and are faced with shit air quality and people sharing the contents of their sneezes, it’s time to stock up on a range of masks. ⁣ ⁣ From cute little ‘no thanks, I don’t want your sniffle’ masks to industrial grade ‘the air quality is on par with smoking a 40 pack of Longbeach 16 mg’ masks.⁣ ⁣ ⁣

⁣ Client: fintech company⁣ Project: explainer video⁣ Style: eloquent, professional conversational ⁣ ⁣ You had me at blockchain. Actually that’s a lie. You didn’t at all. I have NFI what a blockchain is.⁣ ⁣ But I can deliver a voice over with just the right amount of eloquence to make those that need some blockchain-y-ness in their life listen up.⁣ ⁣ Thanks to this easy to understand script, I do know the old BC can make it easier to get paid. And that’s always a good thing right?⁣ ⁣ 𝘛𝘩𝘪𝘴 𝘱𝘰𝘴𝘵 𝘪𝘴 𝘤𝘦𝘳𝘵𝘪𝘧𝘪𝘦𝘥 𝘣𝘭𝘰𝘤𝘬𝘤𝘩𝘢𝘪𝘯 𝘕𝘍𝘐. 𝘗𝘭𝘦𝘢𝘴𝘦 𝘨𝘰𝘰𝘨𝘭𝘦 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘤𝘳𝘢𝘱 𝘰𝘶𝘵 𝘰𝘧 𝘣𝘭𝘰𝘤𝘬𝘤𝘩𝘢𝘪𝘯 𝘧𝘪𝘳𝘴𝘵 𝘵𝘰 𝘥𝘦𝘵𝘦𝘳𝘮𝘪𝘯𝘦 𝘪𝘧 𝘪𝘵’𝘴 𝘳𝘪𝘨𝘩𝘵 𝘧𝘰𝘳 𝘺𝘰𝘶.⁣ ⁣

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