What a busy week it’s been – and, gratifyingly, most of it from repeat business, which is always heartening!
The National Geographic Channel, who I hadn’t worked with in almost a year, invited me back to voice two programmes for their “Megastructures” strand. The first of these goes out on Wednesday night, 12th March at 9pm, and the second a week later on the 19th (both will doubtless do plenty of repeat business of their own, if you’re interested in catching them).
This week also saw me spending three days working through my agent, The Voiceover Gallery, updating a whole load of materials I voiced last year for the ACCA, the Association of Certified Chartered Accountants, along with my colleague Dominica Warburton. Three days in a studio owned by the ex-bass player for Def Leppard. Rock on…
Met Film also invited me back for the second week in a row, this time to voice an internal video for John Lewis from my home studio. Aparently my voiceovers last week for the Sunday Times 100 Best Companies to Work For Awards went down well on the night. In addition, having worked together for the first time last summer, Function Films got me in to voice a corporate video for their client, Turbine Services Ltd.
So, apart from my regular gigs for the BBC World Service and Film24, nearly all of my work this week has been from people I’ve worked with before. They obviously think I’m doing something right and repeat business is, after all, the finest form of freelance flattery.
One new bit of business for a new client though was especially interesting: Atlanta-based All Voices International asked me to help out with a client of theirs in Los Angeles, who was looking for a replacement British voice for her documentary project on the life of the Polish actress, Helena Modjeska. A combination of Source-Connect and Skype meant that London could talk to LA, while Atlanta held court and recorded in the voice track. Not a phone patch or an ISDN line in site. Is this a sign of things to come?
