Snippets from my Somewhat Silly YouTube channel
I take your project needs and my professional voiceover services extremely seriously.
I take myself…less so.
It comes down to a discussion about branding I had with someone for whom I have an awful lot of respect.
Branding, as you probably know, is much more than your logo, your colours, your typefaces. It’s the entire experience you offer.
And my colleague pointed out that there’s a side of me that rarely gets expressed in my voiceover work.
But which features increasingly when I get to know you more. As the relationship grows.
According to her, I’m funny. (I grimaced as I typed that. I think I can be funny, but, y’know). Anyway, that’s seldom the style of the work I do.
Because, when you’re a voiceover artist with a natural speaking voice like mine, those deep tones and qualities of gravitas, trustworthiness and warmth lead to inevitable casting decisions – in corporate voiceovers and commercial voiceover at any rate.
I’m often the voice of authority. The leader you can look up to, who would never look down on you. A serious person for a serious business, albeit one that cares about you as much as its own standards.
Which suits me pretty well, I think. (Apart from the leadership. Nobody’s ever entrusted ME with a team, and that’s possibly a good thing.)
But perhaps because I’m deeply serious about the real world, there’s lots of absurdity and sarcasm and silliness that needs to escape from time to time.
These videos are a release valve, really. With the possible bonuses that a) you might laugh a bit here and there, b) that they might show a different side to the quiet, serious, and shy person you’ll meet at first, and c) you’ll hand me loads of humorous (and high-value, of course) scripts to have fun with.