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Tell us a bit about what a day in your life looks like. So, let's say you have an actual commission on the day and recording that you need to do. What does a day look like from the moment you wake up to the moment, you sleep or roughly?
Yeah. So a day, a day in the life of doing voiceovers, if I've got a commission that's come through, it only usually gets confirmed the day beforehand. So you get penciled for a job. But then it only usually gets confirmed literally the day beforehand, but you know, it's you know it's coming. If it's a home record, then I get up. Well, I usually I go to the gym before breakfast try and keep fit. And then I set up the home studio, get everything set up really nicely, hope none of my neighbors are sawing down any trees, which has happened before I was doing a voiceover for a wildlife documentary in the Serengeti. And I woke up and there were tree surgeons outside my house, but luckily there was a friend that lives close by and I begged them if I could use their house to set up my recording studio. So I drove my stuff around there and set up the recording studio in their house. So then you take the call, you've been sent the script usually the night before, so you can go over the majority of what you're going to say. When it's a longer form voiceover like a documentary, then you're usually sent the scripts maybe a week beforehand. But sometimes you're not and so then you'll having to sight read quite difficult stuff sometimes, which can be pretty nerve wracking. What I usually tend to do is if that's going to happen, I've only just been sent the script maybe an hour before we start recording. I just scan the script for any difficult words, long words, words I don't know how to pronounce. And quickly Google them, how do you pronounce this strange word of this strange animal? And then I kind of write it on my notepad. So when I come to that word, I write it out phonetically, I can see that I'm going to pronounce it correctly because that can be quite stressful. But whenever you make a mistake when you're doing voiceovers, which everyone does and I do constantly, is you literally just stop, you go back to beginning of the sentence and start again. So it's not like you have to start the whole voiceover again. You just go back to the beginning of the sentence, take a breath and start again, um, without pause really. So there's either that, or if I'm traveling into a studio to a certain extent, that's much easier because you don't have to set up your, your home studio, you just get the train into, into London and they've got it all ready for you, give you a cup of tea and you start.
Yeah. So a day, a day in the life of doing voiceovers, if I've got a commission that's come through, it only usually gets confirmed the day beforehand. So you get penciled for a job. But then it only usually gets confirmed literally the day beforehand, but you know, it's you know it's coming. If it's a home record, then I get up. Well, I usually I go to the gym before breakfast try and keep fit. And then I set up the home studio, get everything set up really nicely, hope none of my neighbors are sawing down any trees, which has happened before I was doing a voiceover for a wildlife documentary in the Serengeti. And I woke up and there were tree surgeons outside my house, but luckily there was a friend that lives close by and I begged them if I could use their house to set up my recording studio. So I drove my stuff around there and set up the recording studio in their house. So then you take the call, you've been sent the script usually the night before, so you can go over the majority of what you're going to say. When it's a longer form voiceover like a documentary, then you're usually sent the scripts maybe a week beforehand. But sometimes you're not and so then you'll having to sight read quite difficult stuff sometimes, which can be pretty nerve wracking. What I usually tend to do is if that's going to happen, I've only just been sent the script maybe an hour before we start recording. I just scan the script for any difficult words, long words, words I don't know how to pronounce. And quickly Google them, how do you pronounce this strange word of this strange animal? And then I kind of write it on my notepad. So when I come to that word, I write it out phonetically, I can see that I'm going to pronounce it correctly because that can be quite stressful. But whenever you make a mistake when you're doing voiceovers, which everyone does and I do constantly, is you literally just stop, you go back to beginning of the sentence and start again. So it's not like you have to start the whole voiceover again. You just go back to the beginning of the sentence, take a breath and start again, um, without pause really. So there's either that, or if I'm traveling into a studio to a certain extent, that's much easier because you don't have to set up your, your home studio, you just get the train into, into London and they've got it all ready for you, give you a cup of tea and you start.
