VO-BB - 20 YEARS OLD!

Deirdre · Posted: Tue Jul 05, 2005 4:35 pm Post subject:

Banksey-- you may need to be restrained.

[Note to those who don't know me well enough to know: the foregoing is purely jocular. . . although restraining Banksey may actually be a great deal of fun. But only if he likes it.]

fixed a damnable typo
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Gp · Guest

Jean Luc Picard of Star Trek The Next Generation has that intercontinental accent. Maybe his would be condsidered intergalactic even???

Guest · Posted: Tue Jul 05, 2005 5:44 pm Post subject:

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ooops guest above was me. I swear I was logged in!

kitstern · Posted: Wed Jul 06, 2005 6:58 pm Post subject:

OK, here's the scoop. Apparently everyone's making them up! My agent forwarded me several auditions w/talent using the "intercontinental". One sounded sort of like Omar Shariff, another sort of British, sort of not. It might be kind of hard to maintain for an entire narration, but if they pay more for an accented read why not give it a shot?
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Philip Banks · Posted: Wed Jul 06, 2005 9:10 pm Post subject:

Here in the UK, things are much simpler. Copy is either given to the voice written in the required accent or in post production the sound engineer puts the audio through the dialect filter.

Frank F · Posted: Wed Jul 06, 2005 11:19 pm Post subject:

Hey, I want one of those.... (the dialect filter).

Wow, with that I could become - Don LaFontaine or maybe if they have the add-on "gender-bender" I could become Jane Seymore or....

Send me one soon...

Frank F

Philip Banks · Posted: Wed Jul 06, 2005 11:48 pm Post subject:

The Don La Fontaine is a preset, no matter how you start your read it is pre-fixed "In a world...."

For the best British accent use - Disney animation villain voice.

The SoCal Lawyer plug-in was $650 extra and doesn't appear to do anything. The Realtor is fine just doesn't sound believable. The San Francisco Gay male only works for 30 seconds and then breaksdown in tears. Mine must have a fault as the New York cabbie and the Eastern European appear to sound identical.

donrandall · Guest

Mr. Banks - you are a sick man.

You have a very sick sense of humor.

I approve.

It is very funny. I laughed.

Don Hammock · Posted: Mon Jul 11, 2005 8:57 am Post subject: Intercontintental Accent

[quote]Just make something up!!! Good idea, the client did!! There is no such thing as an accent in Europe that one can't pin down. I know, do well informed educated American ...Oh no, there we go again, no such thing. Humble Texan? Chirpy Russian? Non-snearing Brit ?....Tsk, now I'm just being ridiculous. [/quote]

Banksey,

I am sorry to have to correct you, BUT, while HARD to believe, there IS such a thing as a Humble Texan. Myself, and my fellow resident of The Lone Star State Dave Dehart, are proof. We don't speak loudly and we are not the bragging type. No, we prefer to speak softly and let our accomplishments go unnoticed and never publicly announce them. Yes, we prefer the quiter, humbler way.
With that said, we will now quietly ride off into the sunset.,,,,,

Ride off in our BRAND NEW $ 100,000 CADILLAC to go check our OIL WELLS that is!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

P.S.- What is ironic is that there REALLY IS a HUMBLE,Texas.
It is a suburb of Houston and has population of about 60,000.

Philip Banks · Posted: Mon Jul 11, 2005 9:43 am Post subject:

Population of Humble, Texas is 85,000 they'd just rather not brag. I wonder if there's a Modest somewhere near Deleware? Town motto "Don't live here or visit, there are much nicer places".

In the UK, Wendy's sell an Englishman Burger. It's just an empty box but we hate to make a fuss.

Edo · Guest

Hi guys and gals...

Just returned from a radiojob in Spain, so maybe a bit late my two cents...

Over here in The Netherlands intercontinental English is considered that what we hear in tv-series. Most Europeans get their English basic education from the shows they watch on the tube. Especially over here it's a mixture between US and UK shows. The rest ofcourse is in Dutch. I get this question of intercontinental English all the time to be honest...

In our case it means the spots can air in both the UK and other foreign countries where the people are fluent in English. In the UK they're not considered too American, and outside the UK it's something in the middle.

I hope I explained this clear enough, it might be a bit misty because of my intercontinental thinking. I had to speak five languages on that radiojob, pretty confusing :oops: