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“Can you sound 30% more ‘red lipstick’?” – a voiceover playlist of contrast and variety
A voiceover showreel isn’t like a wallpaper pattern book. Each style of voice we’re asked to do isn’t limited or...
Heart-breaking
I’ll warn you, this is a tear-jerker
I *love* cats. For the first time in my life, after the loss of our noble Einstein (pictured left,...
Crying
A poem for our times
I first started out at 16 reading poetry for BBC Radio 4. It was really how I started out as...
Charity
Scripts I really can’t voice
Sometimes I’m asked to voice things I just can’t voice. Or at least, I can’t voice them straight off. Mainly...
Acting
How to voice a tear-jerker
Sometimes voiceovers are asked to create real emotion. Like, real emotion. Sometimes a script demands that I have to cry....
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