Ricky Salmon is the voiceover artist for a new batch of web videos for Cosmos Holidays.
Both Richard Cartridge and Bill Buckley make a welcome return to the airwaves of BBC Radio Solent. They have both worked there twice before!
Ricky Salmon is delighted to have been booked to train lawyers in media and presentation skills at Hammonds LLP.
Ricky Salmon is recording voiceovers for a huge batch of web videos for holidays in France and Croatia for Keycamp Holidays.
Ricky Salmon is the voiceover artist on a corporate video for Lloyds Banking Group.
Ricky Salmon has produced another podcast. Hear it, along with previous podcasts here: podcast.
We welcome former Capital Radio Presenter Mick Brown and legendary Radio and TV Presenter Bill Buckley to the BigFish Media team.
Helpful advice for Voiceover Artists
Saturday 12 December 2009
Thursday 3 December 2009
A Voiceover business without the internet!
Terrific! On Tuesday afternoon the broadband connection to my office went down. Completely. It had been playing up all morning, but then after one of those wonderful "power cycles" to try to solve the problem, the internet failed. Completely.
How can you run an internet-based voiceover business without the internet? Quite Tricky.
Why the phone line (on which the broadband is carried) still works is a mystery to me - and my neighbour, a massage therapist - who had the opposite problem a few months back.
After a frustrating call routed via India and a guy instructing me on how to diagnose the problem which involved a series of increasingly bizarre questions, a screwdriver and the BT socket, he gave up and transferred me back to the UK.
Eventually a nice man from BT was promised on Thursday morning who would come out to fix the problem on what the nice woman in Southampton called " a free visit". Quite why she was so pleased to speak to someone else in "the south" I don't know. I was going to ask, and then reminisce about my seven years living there (working for BBC Radio Solent and Ocean Sound/Power FM) and my first ever professional voiceover engagement in Eastleigh, but I decided against it.
True to their word a nice little man from BT turned up today, got out his screwdriver and laptop, fiddled about under my desk and the mass of wires there and eventually diagnosed a faulty filter. He then apologised and said he'd have to charge me for the filter. (That's fair enough I thought). Oh and for his time. So which bit of the this was a "free visit"?
Still, I am delighted that the voice-over business is back up and running again. Now to that backlog of emails....
How can you run an internet-based voiceover business without the internet? Quite Tricky.
Why the phone line (on which the broadband is carried) still works is a mystery to me - and my neighbour, a massage therapist - who had the opposite problem a few months back.
After a frustrating call routed via India and a guy instructing me on how to diagnose the problem which involved a series of increasingly bizarre questions, a screwdriver and the BT socket, he gave up and transferred me back to the UK.
Eventually a nice man from BT was promised on Thursday morning who would come out to fix the problem on what the nice woman in Southampton called " a free visit". Quite why she was so pleased to speak to someone else in "the south" I don't know. I was going to ask, and then reminisce about my seven years living there (working for BBC Radio Solent and Ocean Sound/Power FM) and my first ever professional voiceover engagement in Eastleigh, but I decided against it.
True to their word a nice little man from BT turned up today, got out his screwdriver and laptop, fiddled about under my desk and the mass of wires there and eventually diagnosed a faulty filter. He then apologised and said he'd have to charge me for the filter. (That's fair enough I thought). Oh and for his time. So which bit of the this was a "free visit"?
Still, I am delighted that the voice-over business is back up and running again. Now to that backlog of emails....
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