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Philip Banks · Posted: Sat Aug 12, 2006 8:45 am Post subject: A job that left you grinning

Do you have one? Would you let us hear it?

A few years ago I was at a studio doing a TV commercial for a car company. The director heard a particular characteristic in my voice and asked if I could sound a bit "Nightmare on Elm Street". My response was "no idea". So we agreed to experiment after we'd finished the car ad'.

We played around with some sounds and the net result was me coming back to the studio to voice a TV campaign for a new ride at a theme park.

Hearing the commercial still makes me grin.

www.thecorporatevoice.com/megaphobia.mp3

anthonyVO · 14th Avenue Joined: 09 Aug 2005 Posts: 1470 Location: NYC

Funny... you don't sound from Port Gordon Wink

But that's exactly what a theme park ride spot should sound like... LOL - good job! Must've been fun that one.

I did a Santa Fe salsa TV spot tag that still makes me grin, because the guys asked for "Sam Elliot" but in Spanish. I never got a copy of that spot - it's the one where all the cacti hijack the delivery truck full of Santa Fe Salsa.

Here are the raw takes (don't think I came close - uh - because at the time... i uh - don't hit me - didn't know who Sam Elliot was... oops - it aired anyway).

I also don't know which take they used, since I never caught the spot in Spanish. That one was funny, because it was so short, but I never let on to not knowing who Sam was, so it felt like 5 hours in the booth - LOL.

-Anthony

DaveChristi · Posted: Sat Aug 12, 2006 12:17 pm Post subject:

I had an agency contact me through a colleague to be a Circus Barker. I thought it’d be fun.

When I got the script, it turns out the part was for a chain of strip clubs. They were bringing in midget strippers (little people? What’s P.C.?).

There were parts of the script I couldn’t get through for laughing. There was a line about having to “stack to of these sexy ladies on top of each other to get one regular size” (something like that).

I never heard the finished spot.
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bobsouer · Posted: Sat Aug 12, 2006 12:19 pm Post subject: Re: A job that left you grinning

Deirdre · Posted: Sat Aug 12, 2006 1:11 pm Post subject:

I had a blast with this session--
I was asked to provide vocalizations for some support characters for a game being developed by Blitz Games in the UK.

Blitz
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dhouston67 · Posted: Sat Aug 12, 2006 2:13 pm Post subject:

Deirdre,

The cats --- and the dog --- both pricked up their ears when that played. I think that's a good benchmark. Smile

Here's a recent audition I got from my agent. It asked one to provide a voice similar to Principal Blackman (from Strangers with Candy) or Stewie Griffin without impersonating either. It's for a teen safe-driving website, I believe.

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Audiogal · Posted: Sat Aug 12, 2006 3:30 pm Post subject:

DB's clip had me laughing because my dog was sitting here looking out the window & when she heard DB, she started looking frantically up & down the street to see where the dog was! Laugh

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Drew · Posted: Sat Aug 12, 2006 4:06 pm Post subject:

Stuff I've done recently for several imaging clients had some momoents of humor.

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http://s16.quicksharing.com/v/7815000/MoreImage_DrewHadwal.mp3.html

A VO-BB'er helped me with one of 'em. Try to guess who.
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Deirdre · Posted: Sat Aug 12, 2006 4:15 pm Post subject:

Heh.

sounds great,
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mcm · Posted: Sat Aug 12, 2006 6:18 pm Post subject:

Wow, these are all wonderful.

DB, I never knew you were also a fluent meower.

A gig I did last fall is still one of my favorites - actually the guy did most of it, I just got to fill in here & there. You'll probly recognise his voice.

Greenbrier Dodge

Tom Greenlee · Posted: Sat Aug 12, 2006 6:26 pm Post subject:

well.....here is an excerpt of an excerpt from a spot that took me forever to complete. It was for a church in North Dakota. I had saved the excerpt because it cracked me up. I'm only posting a segment of it because it went on much longer than this. The sentence I am attempting to say is "When things get hard, Jesus is there to comfort you and help you through the trying times." You'll see just how HARD of a time I was having. I'm the one that needed help. hahahahaha
click here
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Rognog · Posted: Mon Aug 14, 2006 3:22 pm Post subject:

It was my first VO gig: a PSA for Glaxo promoting gential herpes awareness!

"Honey, remember that jock itch I had? Well it wasn't jock itch, it was genital herpes."

"Herpes. Don't let it rock your world. Get the facts."
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Deirdre · Posted: Mon Aug 14, 2006 3:34 pm Post subject:

Good Lord! That's enough to make you swear off VO.
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Pam · Posted: Tue Aug 15, 2006 4:14 pm Post subject:

No...Ketel one!