Howdy! I’m currently developing my commercial chops with the aim of recording my demo in June. Feel free to have a listen to these samples and let me know what you think. Thanks!
Commercial 1: Trendi
Trendi.com. It’s the #1 shopping site for top name brands at up to 75% off. Great style,
great value and everything ships free. Trendi.com. Everything you love, for less.
Commercial 2: Vigoro Ultra
Vigoro Ultra greens your lawn in 72 hours and lasts up to three months. It’s the same
technology used to keep Arnold Palmer’s Bay Hill club in championship shape. You’ll find
Vigoro Ultra at The Home Depot.
You’ve got great rhythm and pitch in both of these samples. In the first one I did notice a little microphone bump sound at the end so I would just be mindful of that. For the second one, I might take a half second longer between “championship shape” and “you’ll find” so that it has space to breathe and become two distinct thoughts. Sounds great otherwise. Good luck with your demo:)
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Howdy Markos! Commercial #1 sounds amazing. Very energetic, great transition between sentences, and hitting those buzz words. Commercial #2 sounds great as well. I thought you may have loss a little breath during the second sentence.
I can already tell that my voice in this recording is higher because I’m nervous. I am open to any other feedback or suggestions you can provide. Thank you!
Butterball
Butterball brings you the joys of turkey day. Friends and family drop in to bask in the warmth of the season. Celebrate this summer with Butterball turkey on the grill. Tender, juicy, surprisingly simple. HAPPY THANKSGRILLING from Butterball.
I love the quality of your voice, it brings such light to your read! One thing I’d recommend is to consider helping the copy along with a little faster pacing. Aim for the excitement before a Thanksgiving meal rather than the sedation after it. Great job!
Hi all! Uploading the last of my Narration Homework before I start working towards my next run of classes. Thanks!
Texicon Family
“Hey there new employee, or should we say, new family member. As a member of the Texicon family, we want to formally introduce you to your new home, but too formal because that’s just not our style. Now you’ve already got your new uniforms and met with our incredible CEO, or head of the family as we like to call him. Now it’s time for me to bring you up to speed on what your days are going to be filled in with. Make sure you grab some of the complimentary cake you have in front of you, we love cake here so you’re going to have to get used to that, and see what the rest of your time at the Texicon household has in store for you!”
The Unveiling of the Ferrari F-12 Berlinetta
It is the fruit of a huge amount of work and passion
and incorporates our most innovative technologies
working with the best technological partners in the world.
This is an extraordinarily high performance car.
It’s 740 horsepower, in fact
make it the most powerful road car Ferrari has ever built.
Aside from performance, our other focus was weight reduction.
Using aluminum to produce a car
that’s not only more rigid and therefore safer
but also more compact and very, very light.
Efficiency was another area in which we concentrated
And the result is a car that has made huge strides
in terms of fuel consumption and emissions.
Kids Activity TV
Every day is an adventure with Activity TV. It’s the place to be for hundreds of Awesome activities in dozens of categories! Cartooning to magic to cooking and more – ready for you day or night. This month learn some gross out magic. Watch closely as Ryan teaches you to perform the severed finger trick!
Hello!
Your voice sounds nice and clear in all three reads, with a nice and pleasant tone. Of the three reads, the first sounded the most conversational. I think the third read could have been more conversational, and if the audience for the third read is kids, then perhaps that should influence your read even more, with more excitement behind “Awesome,” “gross out magic” and “severed finger trick.” On the second read, try visualizing with each line what the visuals will be, and see if that affects the pacing or spacing of your sentences as the visuals are shown with it. Great job on all three. I like the clarity of your voice.
You voice is so nice and calming, and has such gravitas at the same time! The recording quality seems perfectly clear to me. I can’t think of anything to suggest except maybe experiment with phrasing and pacing so that when you deliver the second and third sentences, they connect to or support the main thought of the first sentence (in the case of the Egypt read). I think your voice will pair really well with the images of a documentary.
Great tone, Don! One thing I’d consider is to bring more specificity to your read. Who are you speaking to and why are you telling them this? A quick lead-in at the start is a great trick I personally turn to to help get me into the scene as well. Keep up the good work!
(SPIRIT ANIMAL)
What if you had a spirit animal–an ally for life who brought you powers;
made you stronger ,faster, and braver.
Then what if a dark force appeared? And took everything away.
A new adventure from the world of Spirit Animals: Fall of the Beasts
Read the Books, Play the Game
(DURACELL)
If you thought batteries were overlooked, tell that to the guy
jammed into a box, with the sole job of preventing your house
from burning.
Yep, good old 9 volt, that’s the guy you trust to tell you the
structure you’re standing in, is currently on fire.
Duracell. That’s a power you can trust.
(IN THIS HOUSE)
In this house
There is no mess
No gossiping, nothing negative, and definitely no stress
Never mind what happened in the past
Putting focus there only makes it last
In this house we ONLY dream
It’s why we make the perfect team
Only speak of all the good to come
Move to the beat of Our own drums
In this house its just like me
We practice the dreams we desire to be
Now in this house the things you see
Are all the dreams that were in ME.
Hello L.Renee!
Spirit animal is a great script for your voice and it engages the reader. I would suggest maybe slowing it down just a little. Duracell is a great read also with great tone that matches the message, good interpretation.
Coyote In New York
This is a true story. See, that’s a photograph of me, coyote, in the newspaper, after I had been shot down in Central Park. Hey, don’t worry, I wasn’t dead though. Just in for a long, soft sleep at the Bronx Zoo! Never had I seen so many animals in one place! And just exactly how did I get into this mess? Well . . . I had a dream – to go where no coyote had gone before…New York City!
Jack Daniel’s
In Lynchburg, Tennessee, you can park in the middle of the road to talk with a neighbor about taxes or the weather. You can pick enough wild blackberries to fill a tin bucket. And you can see a distillery where Jack Daniel made whiskey way back in 1866. We still make it in a slow, deliberate fashion, much as he did. One sip, and you’ll be glad to know we don’t ever plan to stop. Jack Daniel’s … smooth sippin’ Tennessee whiskey.
Coldwell Banker
This is what your house feels like on the new Coldwell Bankers Real Estate website. It attracts a lot of attention, so your home can be seen by thousands of buyers every day until it’s sold. On line. On the phone. Or in person. Coldwell Banker. Making real estate easy.
Hey Bill, Great work! You sound warm and dynamic. I listened to the Jack Daniels. I would love another pass with all your same choices that is a bit more internal. Really focus on your imaginary world. Maybe also adjust the pitch range so the pitches are a bit closer together. That will give it a current feel.
Hello fellow VO artists:
I’m just experimenting with audiobook =character voices and still fiddling around with my audio settings. Any feedback is welcome.
Thank you!
CORALINE DISCOVERED THE DOOR a little
while after they moved into the house.
It was a very old house—it had an attic under
the roof and a cellar under the ground and an
overgrown garden with huge old trees in it.
Coraline’s family didn’t own all of the house—it
was too big for that. Instead they owned part of it.
There were other people who lived in the old
house.
Miss Spink and Miss Forcible lived in the flat
below Coraline’s, on the ground floor. They were
both old and round, and they lived in their flat with
a number of ageing Highland terriers who had
names like Hamish and Andrew and J**k. Once
upon a time Miss Spink and Miss Forcible had
been actresses, as Miss Spink told Coraline the
first time she met her.
“You see, Caroline,” Miss Spink said, getting
Coraline’s name wrong, “both myself and Miss
Forcible were famous actresses, in our time. We
trod the boards, luvvy. Oh, don’t let Hamish eat
the fruitcake, or he’ll be up all night with his
tummy.”
“It’s Coraline. Not Caroline. Coraline,” said
Coraline.
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Rand Paul
As the bluegrass reaches up to the morning sun, our Kentucky values sustain us. As the winds of change blow, we need a strong voice, fighting for OUR way of life. Rand Paul lives our values.
Interchange – Great tone, clarity and pacing. I think adding more of a smile, specifically when talking about Interchange (GROW YOUR CAREER…WITH INTERCHANGE!) may give it a little more emotion and make it more inviting.
Rand Paul – Great job! Sounds like an authentic political ad. My only suggestion would be to try to emphasize “values” more in the first sentence because it seems to be important since it repeats in the third sentence.