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Rick Riley · Posted: Thu Sep 12, 2013 8:38 am Post subject: When you just don't get it

I share this with you because I'm sure most of us have run into this before. 'Weird Script'. From my view, it was bulky copy and a 'how the heck am I going to give them a read that will accomplish what they're looking for' mentality. Basically, 'I didn't get it'. The only redeeming quality from my standpoint was that it was short, I seemed to have the type of voice they were looking for and the budget, for what it was, was decent. From Voices.com. it was $250 to $500. So I bid five hundred and gave it a shot.

The direction:
We're looking for a talented voice-over professional to help provide a segment of the entrance video for the NC State Football team. The video will be played on the display board at Carter-Finley stadium for an audience of 60,000 fans immediately prior to the Wolfpack football team taking the field for each home game this fall.

We're looking for something that can immediately hook them in -- a solemn, deep and powerful voice, but not a distraction from the video itself. This portion will be a bit slower in contrast to latter half of the video, which will pick up and build rapidly to music as the highlights play.

The copy:
“When nothing seems to help, I look at a stonecutter hammering away at his rock; perhaps a hundred times without as much as a crack showing in it. Yet at the hundred and first blow it will split in two, and I know it was not that blow that did it, but all that had gone before.”

With all that being said, and as weird as I thought the read sounded as a dry VO, here's how it turned out. I thought they did a good job and I was surprised, so I thought I'd share.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=biosOqHlimk
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ConnieTerwilliger · Posted: Thu Sep 12, 2013 8:47 am Post subject:

Don't you love it when you get to see the whole thing with music and pictures and it works!
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Philip Banks · Posted: Thu Sep 12, 2013 8:53 am Post subject:

..........and it do work don't it! Well done Rick. Beautifully executed.

todd ellis · Posted: Thu Sep 12, 2013 8:53 am Post subject:

that was very cool.
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Eddie Eagle · M&M Joined: 23 Apr 2008 Posts: 2393

So many times when auditioning I think "if I only knew the setup of visuals and context I could probably give what they want."

Too many casting calls give you nothing to go on. This is where your own script interpretation skills kick in. With nothing other than your own instinct it's amazing how things work.

Diane Maggipinto · Posted: Thu Sep 12, 2013 9:03 am Post subject:

yummy! that was delicious and excellent! well-done, rick!

p.s. that music, though ... it's SO overused. i guess that's football.
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Lizden · Posted: Thu Sep 12, 2013 9:15 am Post subject:

That was great, Rick!
Thanks for sharing!
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Ed Fisher · Posted: Thu Sep 12, 2013 9:35 am Post subject:

Surprising. Just reading the copy alone doesn't show the overall vision.

But when all the parts are assembled...

Thanks for sharing. Impressive.
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Lee Gordon · Posted: Thu Sep 12, 2013 10:23 am Post subject:

After decades of watching This Old House and other home improvement shows, and seeing segments featuring landscapers and stone masons shaping slabs of granite into walkways and stairs, I am more than familiar with the process being described, so that copy made perfect sense to me (and I think it's pretty well written). And Rick read it just right!
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kkuhlken · Posted: Thu Sep 12, 2013 10:34 am Post subject:

Enjoyed it! Thanks for sharing!

(so I can learns more...)
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Rick Riley · Posted: Thu Sep 12, 2013 10:44 am Post subject:

Scott Pollak · Posted: Thu Sep 12, 2013 12:08 pm Post subject:

Pretty cool, Rick! I love hearing your stuff.
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Kristin Lennox · Flight Attendant Joined: 30 Apr 2011 Posts: 858

Spot on, as usual -- it all worked together beautifully!

(However, I think the football players should have shaved their arms...)
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kkuhlken · Posted: Thu Sep 12, 2013 2:03 pm Post subject:

Thanks, Kristen. You owe me a new keyboard...
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Rick Riley · Posted: Thu Sep 12, 2013 4:14 pm Post subject:

'Thanks all!', he said bowing from the waist. 'As usual, you are all kind, and very supportive!'
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