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Voiceover heaven

September 25, 2013
Since the arrival of my new voiceover studio equipment this week, I seem to love the sound of my own voice! I have been testing my new set up with all kinds of recordings, using the multiple polar patterns and throwing all kinds of tricks at it to see how it performs... and it performs amazingly! I already have some voice acting work lined up and am looking forward to using this gear again and again and again.

For details on my current recording set up, please see this page.
 

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Back in the swing of things.

September 17, 2013
Over the last few weeks, I've been auditioning, working, reading, researching and organising like nobody's business.
Today's main task was a sitting for some new head shots and I hope to be able to post some new pictures on the website very soon.

My main hope is that I didn't look as tired as I felt after a late shoot yesterday for a national tv campaign for a major holiday company. The advert script and story-boards looked good, but when I saw the leading actor's prosthetics, I was blown away ...
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Geek chic

August 22, 2013
A deliberately quiet couple of weeks is coming to an end with a fun job as a geek on a date! How long the date will last is debatable, since the online picture he posted was a little more handsome than yours truly... who said, "not too difficult!"?
Off to London to film this for a commercial tomorrow, so more details will follow in time.
My top two auditions where I "knew" for certain that I'd got the part as I left the room were this one and another geek role for IPC Media. Maybe it's typecast...
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Bad singing and the prosthetic neck

August 5, 2013
The last week has been eventful, as always. From comedy singing with headphones on - cover your ears folks! - to getting soaked in "blood" that seeped out of a gaping wound in my neck as I was bound to a chair in a disused warehouse...
First up was shooting three character scenarios with Jon Cambourne to advertise a new music service to be launched across Europe. This meant learning songs and singing embarrassingly, with headphones on, which is guaranteed to put a smile on your face, if not pe...
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Cut throat voiceovers...

July 18, 2013
The hot weather endures and my work has continued apace and been busy, busy, busy all the way.
I have been recording many voiceovers from my home studio which can get a bit hot and sweaty in this untypical British summer. I'm also very much looking forward to working on a forthcoming short film, in which my throat will be cut and will bleed profusely...!
Aside from that, I've had a lot of live action roles and writing meetings as well as developing several ideas, so watch this space.


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The Port - Going Global

July 9, 2013
안녕하세요 서울 Ahn Neyong Ha Seyo Seoul! Hello Seoul...

The Port in which I play a hologramatic news reporter, telling of the impending destruction of the Earth, has been selected for the Seoul International Extreme-Short Image & Film Festival in South Korea at the end of September.

Well done, once again, on a fantastic job by director, Matt Freeth and everyone else involved.

You can view the film here.
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Confidentiality and Stupid Auditioning...

June 21, 2013
I love to talk but at the moment my life is full of confidential things and I'm also very good at keeping confidential things, well... confidential! So, whilst it's not very good on a blog, you will have to trust me to reveal the secrets at a later date. Shhhhh

June has been a busy one with acting work from one end of the M4 to the other and some voiceovers recorded at home. I will post up clips as and when they become available. I now look forward to more of the same for the rest of the year!...
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Will and the Worry Dolls

June 5, 2013
After a recent meeting with London-based filmmaker, Max Clendaniel, I re-watched a short film from a couple of years ago in which I played a yellow-clad worry doll. Will and the Worry Dolls is about the monotony of routine life and a bunch of brightly-coloured and slightly eccentric worry dolls who decide to come into the real world after years livening up Will's dreams.

You can see the film here! 

I hope you enjoy it as much as I did. I had forgotten how funny it is.

Max has recently returned f...
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Teachers, teachers, everywhere!

June 3, 2013
Last week saw a couple of very interesting comedy commercial castings and a trip to a school to play a teacher.
I'm an actor who is constantly surrounded by teachers, because everyone in my family and many of my friends seem to think Aristole's quote, "Those who know, do. Those that understand, teach." is more appropriate than the more frequently quoted, "Those who can, do. Those who can't, teach." My mother is a teacher, my uncle is a teacher, I married a teacher and my best friend is a teach...
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The Port - SciFi 48 Hour Film Challenge

April 26, 2013
I am very proud of my recent involvement in a short film made by talented director, Matt Freeth.
The film was made for SciFi London's 48 hour film challenge, where participating teams have to come up with a 3-5 minute short film over the space of two days and must include a certain prop and line of dialogue.
The resulting film, The Port was unfortunate not to be included on the final shortlist to select the winner, however, it was on the long list and has been selected by the organisers who wan...
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