VO Tips

This is not Morgan Freeman’s real voice, but I just found this funny.

I always enjoy a long, hard laugh at myself. This recent blooper of mine in the studio helps me to keep my head on straight. Everyone makes mistakes, some are just funnier than others.

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Hope you enjoyed it as much as I did!

Dan O’day, radio and voice over Guru is running a contest on his blog.

He posts an ad for Target that he says (and I completely agree) is completely awful, posts the general idea of the copy, and says rewrite and revoice it. So I did.

Here’s the result:

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If you would like to participate in the contest, submissions can be made until the 8th, so you’d better hurry!

Good luck!

If you can read any of these faster and cleaner than him (especially the last one!), send it to me and I’ll post it here. This is AMAZING! Thanks Rodney! Rodney’s website

I love Voice Over related humor! If you’re a child of the 80’s like me, or you lived during them, you’ll know why this is so funny.