Time Poor
I’ve been rather busy for the past week so haven’t had time to do another video. I will. I will.
My house has had rather serious electrical problems. Basically, the downstairs circuit had a fault so the fuse would blow and then when it was pushed back in sparks would shoot out of it. For the past few weeks my whole life has been run from an extension cable dangling down the stairwell from upstairs.
Last weekend two friends, Patty and Paul, from Manc came down to London (you were right, you did make it onto the blog!) to hang out. While they were here Paul sorted the electrics out out. I’m now not moments away from my house catching on fire. And that makes me happy.
Monday I did a continuity announcer audition for a new channel. My lovely friend Jane Farnham got the audition for me. I’ve never done continuity before so who knows how the audition went. Continuity is a bit different from other types of voice over – it’s not as ‘voice-over voice’ as doing a v/o for an item or a commercial, it’s more relaxed than narration, it’s not quite at ‘talky’ as radio… it’s a kind of heightened ‘chat’ voice. If you can figure out what that means. Ultimately, however, it will more than likely depend on what kind of voice they want representing the channel- young, old, high, low, very American, trans-Atlantic…. Like all auditions, it’s now out of my hands.
Yesterday I found out that a friend of mine has been hired to write a column for a Conde Nast publication. She and I were working together a year ago and I told her she should start a blog. She said that she’d never written before. I said that she was really funny and intelligent and that I was sure she’d be a great writer. I said she should use the blog to practice writing… So, she started a blog… then started another one…. and another one… Conde Nast read them and decided to hire her as a ‘Sex And the City’-type columnist…
Another person who’s had their life changed by blogging. :)
I’m really intrigued by the blogger success – can you reveal the blogs – if not here then via email?
j
P.S. You’ll no doubt have to do some sort of vaguely illiterate regional accent in order to meet some warped idea of diversity requirements if present trends are anything to go by.
Yes, I’d be interested, too, if you’re in a position to share the links.
Brian is on Radio 4 , 11am Friday 31 July. He’s in the ..paper I think today’s Guardian (TV2)
John’s right about the accent idea… Do a really nasally Lancastrian accent for them – begin every intro with “and now on t’Five…”
woops that was last friday that Brian was on radio 4
listen again.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/history/pip/7ab4w/
“the fuse would blow and then when it was pushed back in sparks would shoot out of it”
I got burned 2 years because of similar event. My house was brand new, so me and my wife were walking around it with the contractor to see if everything was working fine, and unfortunately for me, it was not. There was a few electrical outlets that were not working, so I went downstair to the breaker box, resetted the faulty breaker, and boom, a huge electrical arc came shooting out at me, into my hand and up my arm. Ack. The sensation wasn’t really pleasing.
Oh and by the way, don’t upload your videos to youtube anymore. Did you read their new TOS? Apparently, they now own everything that gets u/l on there.
I read the Director’s account TOS and the normal TOS which say:
“You hereby grant YouTube a worldwide, non-exclusive, royalty-free, license to use, reproduce, distribute, display, and publicly perform the Licensed Content and the Licensed Brands in connection with the YouTube website, the YouTube Network and YouTube’s (and its successor’s) business, including without limitation for the right to redistribute, syndicate or co-brand part or all of the YouTube Website (including the Licensed Content and Licensed Brands) through third-party websites and services in any media formats and through any media channels. YouTube may modify the Licensed Content and Licensed Brands solely as necessary to fit the format and the look-and-feel of the YouTube Website and to create “teaser content” (i.e., promotional excerpts directly associated with the Licensed Content) and promotions for YouTube.”
Though you still retain the “rights” to your work… Whatever that means…
Hi, You have an interesting Blog :-)