VO-BB - 20 YEARS OLD!

Philip Banks · Posted: Thu Jul 10, 2014 5:22 am Post subject: Don't be helpful!

A few weeks ago a production company in Pakistan asked me to voice a corporate video for a client. My fee frightened them to death. Email arrived on a Friday saying script would be ready on Sunday, 1 page of A4, they asked for a deal. I eventually settled for £80.

The equiry, long forgotten, turned into "the job" this morning. Between faffing about emails I did three VO sessions for other people which would result in the bills being paid for about a month.

I tried to help the corporate client with fee, demo, trial reads, bad writing and appalling translation.

15 minutes ago I decided to help myself by asking them to find another voice.

Pity.

SkinnyJohnny · Posted: Thu Jul 10, 2014 7:22 am Post subject:

+1
The smallest tend to be the biggest pain!
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Lee Gordon · Posted: Thu Jul 10, 2014 11:36 am Post subject:

You can't say you didn't warn yourself. Shocked

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Foog · Posted: Thu Jul 10, 2014 1:04 pm Post subject:

Did they get shirty about your suggested corrections to the terrible translation? I love it when a client does that!