0891 – Studio Embarrassment

2023.06.10 – 0891 – Studio Embarrassment

Embarrassment

As a voice-over, you have perfected a cast of characters while alone in your home studio and then you get your big break: a director wants you for a big-budget part!

You sit in the big-city studio, the microphone facing the control room and through the glass you see directors and producers, engineers and executives, script-writers and sales managers, assistants and interns… they’re talking but you can’t hear them… and you feel like a goldfish in a bowl.

It’s understandable that embarrassment means you struggle to find the thunderous voice of Thor for an interactive game, ‘Silly Billy the Steam Train’ for the kids’ cartoon, or that of the wicked witch for the theme park animatronics, that you had produced at home… alone.

He’s another example of embarrassment, rather than nerves.

Terry (not his real name) had bad teeth, they were stained from years of drinking coffee on overnight radio shifts, (and red wine at weekends). He also had rather more fillings than he’d have liked, the result of too many sweets and chocolates to help him ‘power-through’ the night. Terry was self-conscious of his physical looks and so was careful about opening his mouth when he spoke so he didn’t show his yellowing teeth, flecked with silver amalgam. And that caused him to mumble, and trip over his words. An easily-solved physical issue (teeth whitening and tooth-coloured fillings), would mean he’d be more confident in opening his mouth when he spoke and develop a richer, clearer voice.  

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