Professionals, Not Prima Donnas.

Posted by : Elinor Hamilton
23 January 2011

It always surprises me how many applications actually need voiceovers – I don’t just mean WHERE you hear them, such as on the radio, TV, internet or on computer games. I mean, how many different companies there are, and how they all benefit in their own way from having professional recordings made – whether it’s a large arena needing to announce their latest acts down the telephone, to smaller, more specialist companies who need a bit of a web video recorded to grab the attention of their visitors online. You can always tell a professional job when you hear it, and it does make a difference.

Here at Sayer Hamilton (UK Voice Talent Extraordinaires) we’ll always do our utmost to record your voiceover scripts EXACTLY as you want them – and if you’re recording us by ISDN we’ll do take after take if that’s what it takes (err, if that makes sense.) It’s performance without the prima donna at Sayer Hamilton – no matter if it’s a 10 seconder being aired at the lowest Equity radio rate, or the most highly paid TV commercial, everyone gets the highest level of professionalism and courtesy. We’ll do everything we can to find a time slot which suits you well, and you can have as many takes as you like within it. Corporate narrations are generally recorded here in our own time (but we can set up an ISDN link or phone patch if you want to listen in), and we tend to guarantee a ‘same time next working day’ turnaround (but let us know if yours is more urgent than that… we’ll squeeze you in sooner if we can.) We love how varied our voice work is, and we’re always excited by new and different projects.

On Friday afternoon, I recorded some educational material for schools (in Spanish!), on-hold prompts for Tesco Mobile, a commercial for an organic farm somewhere dahn sarf, followed by one for breast enlargements (no, they weren’t joining forces on chicken fillet retailing, before you ask) then a training programme for an accountancy software package, rounded off with an impression of Saffy from Ab Fab… remember her? In between all that, Phil was recording and editing a lengthy narration all about Health and Safety on oil rigs, among other stuff. Diverse? I should co-co. And we love it.