VO-BB - 20 YEARS OLD!

[Bailey]

Mary, nice job. Does the "blue haired" girl have a 10" waist?

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AOVA Graduate 02/2004 ;
"Be a Voice, not an Echo."

[schaer]

Connie, I've seen some pretty bad copy written by native American English writers As a non-native my grammar seems to be better at times than that of natives.....

Bernard
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[ConnieTerwilliger]

[asnively]

I'm on the verge of writing a short note to a 'client' to withdraw from a project. The scope of what he needs is beyond the services that I am willing to provide for him (at least at the price I agreed upon for just voicing it.)

The script is so bad. He wanted me originally just to tidy up the English to make it more conversational-- no prob. I made my living as a full-time copywriter for years. But it's really beyond that. And he feels uncomfortable with email, so he needs to call me repeatedly on the phone, on a bad VOIP connection from a far-off country, and speak to me at length in broken English about his "vision."

And it's supposed to be a narration for an animation, but they did the animation first, before the script was written! So the words and the animation do not even appear to be talking about the same thing! My guess is that the poor Flash animator just did his best to animate a general concept for :60 based on telephone conversations-- no copy. No storyboards. Just a mess.

I have never, ever withdrawn from a media project before. I just have no choice this time. Sorry about the impromptu vent apropos of nothing...
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[SoundsGreat-Elaine Singer]

Hey, Amy - no need to apologize. That's what we're here for!
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[Bruce]

I've had to turn down a couple of "lucrative" deals just in the past couple of weeks.

One was for audio commercials that would run on websites and the client's client would have dozens and eventually hundreds of spots to record or customize off of the originals. Demos were made and approved...with one exception: "You made the demos 38 seconds long. They need to be 30 seconds exactly."

Yes but they're only going on Internet websites, so length doesn't matter.

"Well they might want to use them on the radio".

Well here's my rate for national radio spots for a year's usage.

The heavy phone and email exchanges suddenly stopped.

The other one was a fella who wanted to create basic animated TV spots using my voice and sell them to clients around the country. He wants me to record 40 of them in the near term. (How exciting!)

How much is the fee if they sell I ask? "A good fee up front and a residual payment with every new client that buys these." Uh huh.

Finally gets approval on the first one for a chain of stores in the South and the fee will be $100 per spot and a never specified residual per new client. "Oh, and you made the demo spot a :40. we need to cut it down to :30."

I gave him my rate for national TV voiceovers for a year, plus a fee plan for addition stores or chains he might sell them to. Haven't heard a word for several days now. Hmmm.

Bruce

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(By the way both demos were made un-reusable by virtue of length and of music under some phrases and not others, and in the second one, I made sure my voice, and that of the female voice talent he provided, over-lapped in the final mix he got.)
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I'm not a Zoo, but over the years I've played one on radio/TV. .

[Deirdre]

I always make auditions either too long or incomplete.
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