VO-BB - 20 YEARS OLD!

Deirdre · Last edited by Deirdre on Thu Feb 15, 2007 5:10 pm; edited 1 time in total

This is part of an ad campaign for a large hotel's "family package" for February vacation week in Boston.

richgates · Guest

I can't say much more than yikes! What would you have done had they refused to budge? I am curious what Voice Over people tend to do when presented with a gig that somehow goes outside their principles.

Deirdre · Posted: Mon Feb 12, 2007 12:59 pm Post subject:

I'd have had my production guy talk to the head of sales-- just escalate the danged thing.
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Dave · Posted: Mon Feb 12, 2007 1:34 pm Post subject:

todd ellis · Posted: Mon Feb 12, 2007 6:26 pm Post subject:

donrandall · Guest

Hey, why not just tell the folks to leave the kids in the car and take the money they save and blow it in the bar?

By the way, not an ethics kinda thing, just bad grammar in a national spot: Lincoln - Mercury has one running in rotation that starts out "How is the tires on your car?"

simonru · Guest

Mmmmmm. So I'm producing a session with a hired Voice and suddenly they are picking over the words. The client has already made a dozen changes and there's a problem with "leaving the kids in the room while you go to the bar."

Suddenly my list of "preffered voices" reduced to the tune of 1.

I phone the hotel after the session and they confirm that they have a "nanny service" of an open radio link to the room... like a baby radio.

I now have to rebook the session with a voice that will read the **** words on the page. I don't need this extra stress in my life.

Does the ad say "Go down and Get Drunk like irresponsible parents"? No, I've checked it.... AND CLEARED IT!

I go home, kick the dog and shout at the wife, who packs her bags and goes to stay with her sister.

tway12 · Guest

Hey DB,

Frankly, you saved them from a P.R. nightmare. Their competition would have jumped all over it, some family would have actually done it, something bad would have happened and at the end of it all congress would have convened a special panel to get to the bottom of it. The president might have even referred to the client as, "Evil Do-ers."

Deirdre · Posted: Thu Feb 15, 2007 4:43 am Post subject:

BenWils · Posted: Thu Feb 15, 2007 2:25 pm Post subject:

Victory over de feet!! Good work!
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Deirdre · Posted: Thu Feb 15, 2007 2:50 pm Post subject:

Heh.

I love you, Ben.
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Yoda117 · Posted: Thu Feb 15, 2007 4:41 pm Post subject:

ConnieTerwilliger · Posted: Thu Feb 15, 2007 4:43 pm Post subject:

Welcome Simon,

Points taken. But on some copy there is a point at which some discussion should be had. (That's a sentence!)

My line in the sand came several years ago when I got a last minute call from my agent asking if I could zoom over to a radio station to do a quick spot. I had been there the day before doing some car spots, so I didn't think much of the call and had the time to get over there right away.

So I am met in the parking lot by the producer who thrusts the copy through the car window before I even had a chance to put on the parking brake. I'm reading the copy on the way up the walk and by the time I get to the door, I stop and tell them that I can't do the spot.

It was for a local mayoral race that had grown very ugly and I simply was not comfortable saying those kind of things about the opponent - any opponent! Pure mud slinging garbage. The client went sort of nuts - "You'll never work in this town again," kind of bull. I said, sorry and went back to my car.

As I was pulling out of the drive, the engineer for the session was pulling back in, he had gone out to get a bite to eat. He called out to me, "Connie where are you going!?" I told him that I couldn't do the spot. His reply? "Oh, you're the second person." That was the reason for the last minute call. Heard the spot the next day done by the receptionist at the radio station.

More recently, I did a political spot for a client on the other side of the country that was pretty benign. We chatted about the potential for mud-slinging spots and that I had had a bad experience once. He said that they loved my voice and wanted me to do another, warning me that it was a bit more edgy. I said as long as it wasn't a "liar, liar, pants on fire" spot, I could probably do it.

I could hear him laugh...the spot in fact used those very words. I actually did the spot - mostly because the client was on the other side of the country in a market where my voice isn't saturated, but also because the tone was a lot lighter and despite using those words, wasn't in the same mean spirited nasty vein.
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Deirdre · Posted: Thu Feb 15, 2007 5:11 pm Post subject:

For the sake of further clarity-- it was the producer who took the offending copy to the Sales department. HE hated it worse than I did.
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DaveChristi · Posted: Thu Feb 15, 2007 5:15 pm Post subject: