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Spacegypsy
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 Posted: Wed Jan 04, 2006 1:12 pm Post subject: Wonder Why? |
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Here's a RIDICULOUS ad from V123 - he says the VO cancelled on him. Wonder why? 
my female Voiceover canceled on me today i am in need of a talented Vo person.
Project: this is for the short version of a documentary that we will will be doing both in english and in spanish.
Length: there is about 24 min. of audio so this should not take long.
Type of spanish: Mexican spanish.
the if not in Minneapolis MN the and if you have the right tools to record the audio. it needs to be sent in aiff format at CD quality. i will send you a sample to test from if you do not have sample i can here. the audio when finished can be emailed to me or put on my server.
script: we have a the script typed up in spanish ready to be translated.
Budget: this ways $60.00 the money can be sent via. paypal or by check. 1/2 when the audio is recorded and 1/2 when the audio is aproved by my clients. ( about 2 to 3 days ) |
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Deirdre
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| Posted: Wed Jan 04, 2006 1:45 pm Post subject: |
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Heh. I wonder what the kind of tussle i f there will be for that gig extra the.
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mcm
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| Posted: Wed Jan 04, 2006 1:45 pm Post subject: |
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"24 minutes of audio so this should not take long"
It is WAY too early for April Fools Day!
Clearly, the guy has his head up his
oops!!
Sorry.
Could they have meant, $600?
Even that is low. |
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dhouston67
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| Posted: Wed Jan 04, 2006 2:22 pm Post subject: |
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V123 has pretty much wiped out any kind of "standard" non-union rate.
Actually, it seems that the 'standard' is now "peanuts".
IV is a bit better, but people there still want to pay next to nothing for professional VO services. Disheartening to say the least.
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Audiogal
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| Posted: Wed Jan 04, 2006 2:50 pm Post subject: |
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OUCH! Hard to believe.
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Bailey
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| Posted: Wed Jan 04, 2006 3:45 pm Post subject: |
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I'm still trying to figure out what Mexican Spanish is... and I live 1 hour from Mexico. But then, I'm thinking in California English... San Diego English, to be specific.. Maybe I need to learn Minneapolis English, and then I could understand what the guy is trying to say. But depending on how close they live to Canada, they may have a Canadian English dialect. So if the intended target customer speaks with a Mexican Spanish dialect, and they live in Minneapolis, that may not be the same Mexican Spanish I've been hearing down these parts.
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Deirdre
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| Posted: Wed Jan 04, 2006 3:51 pm Post subject: |
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Actually, Mexican Spanish is as different from Spain Spanish as American English is fromn England English.
Different slang, different accent, etc.
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dhouston67
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| Deirdre wrote: | Actually, Mexican Spanish is as different from Spain Spanish as American English is fromn England English.
Different slang, different accent, etc. |
You should try living here in Texas, where so much of the Spanish is "Tex-Mex"...just like a lot of the food.
Hmmm...now I'm hungry.
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Bailey
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| Deirdre wrote: | Actually, Mexican Spanish is as different from Spain Spanish as American English is fromn England English.
Different slang, different accent, etc. |
When the Spaniards "settled" in Mexico, and inter-married with the ChiChiwas and the Mexicanos. the Castillian (Spain Spanish) language was rather brutalized by the locals. Most of the Hispanics that I have worked with, and have roots in Mexico, are quite impressed when the hear people use the Castillian form. The Spanish language spoken in Mexico is rather laid-back, as you say.
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Dan-O
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| Does anyone know how many unfortunate souls replied to this ad? |
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Spacegypsy
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| Posted: Wed Jan 04, 2006 7:55 pm Post subject: |
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Just took a peep - 15.
Not the usual feeding frenzy, heh heh!
Maybe they all wrote to ask what he was thinking? |
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Bruce
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Actually, just like there are a bunch of American and British dialects, there a are quite a few Mexican dialects. The City folks (Mexico City) speak a fairly formal dialect, while the Sonorans (Northern Mexico) have a much more relaxed way of speaking (sloppy, the City folk say), and on it goes from there. I can't tell you how many jobs I've seen where someone gets a translated script of a spot or narration from one Mexican, and the other Mexican who has to read it says "Oh no, this is all wrong. We'd never say it this way." Which is fun when you yourself speak not enough to know the difference. Arrgh.
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Simon Fellows
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And here's another bottom feeder from V123:
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Job Description
Need ASAP
BRITISH VOICE for a new program being lunched in U.K., short scrip 2 two 3 minuets long. This will be delivered on a prerecorded mesage to U.K homes using an autodialed phone call, message will change from week to week. This will be ongoing though this year. If you can change your accent we will need 5 different voices each week, if you can not change your accent then we will need 5 different people each week. Each message we will pay $50 for short message.
We also will need along message done about 25 minuets long we will pick that person from the short messages and work out that price.
Attached is a sort scrip please use this for you demo, NOT anything else if we receive your demo and it is not using this scrip we will not reply.
Thank you
FULL SCRIPT FOR PRICING REFERENCE ONLY//
Hello im sorry to bother you em I wanted to give you a call my
Name is David and I am calling from Orlando Florida in the U.S.
And ah were actually looking for a very few select individuals
To partner directly with our company to start a brand new
Concept here in Orlando as well as in California, I don’t know
If you’ve ever had an interest in living in the united states if
You have ever wanted to own your own business in the
Hospitality business or would just be looking for a return on
An investment er we have a great opportunity it’s a new
Concept basically were taking the u.k. pub style restaurant bed
And breakfasts and joined it together with a U.K. and
American concept joined and we believe its going to be a very
Strong franchise program where people are to be looking to
Do this not only through out the U.S. but in literally different
Islands and different countries so we have a great concept
And were looking for some people who may have an interest
In an investment level who would be a working investor
Partner and living in the U.S. so if you have ever had a dream
That you would like to be involved in your own pub or your
Own restaurant ah but also not committed to all the time what
It’s taken because we are doing this under a syndicate of
Different investors so we are covering the different times ah
but we are looking for some people what the actually can be can
and trustworthy in the business um so if you have an interest
and like to say it just a return investment or if it’s just to come
and live in the united states and be a working partner of
course been a working partner and that means you have
control as well as we do of the business so we are looking
for a marriage not a dating relationship. We are looking for
some one to be true partners with us and were looking for
people who have an interest in living in the united states
or may be in different parts of the world so if you have an
interest and you would like to look at doing a small
investment of dollars and most of our people are investing
right now in less then 10.000 dollars. then we have the
opportunity for you if you meet our requirements and
qualifications for what were looking for em go ahead and press
one that will bring you back to us here in the u.s. and we can
answer any questions you have if you have an interest in and
by pressing one like I said it will bring you over to us but we
have had an over whelming response. So if it does go
immediately into our voice mail because all of our lines are
busy please leave us your name your telephone number
the city you are calling us from as well as the area code
that’s the phone area code to make sure we can call you back
and a good time to call you back because of the time difference
em sometimes these messages go out early in the morning and
we don’t get in to the office till around 9am east coast time so
if it does go to the voice mail once again leave us your name
your telephone number area code as well as um what city your
calling from and give us a bit of information about what do you
do for a living now. And what are you looking for would you
like to live in the united states are you just looking for an
investment. Just try and give us some information.
We if we’ve called you by accident we apologize
But if you have an interest go ahead and press one now and we
Look forward to talking to you.
Press one now.
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Deirdre
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Oh
My
God.
They can't spel.
They want the "erm"s and "ah"s in it?
They're going to need a really good actor to make THAT stuff sound real.
They're not going to get one with for that kinda money.
That's a laugh a minuet, that one is.
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Drew
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| Posted: Fri Jan 06, 2006 4:36 pm Post subject: |
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So, they need a Brit voice to call other Brits claiming the call's coming from the em, US. Makes perfect um sense to me. And some damn fine writing to boot. 
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