Yeah. We cast and recorded these elves. The biggest challenge was finding an elf with a Spanish accent. It’s hard enough to get elves in the booth this time of year but finding a Spanish elf who also had time for a VO session! Dang. That took a couple of calls. A Red Deluxe production,[…]
This past month we did the sound design for this bumpin’ ASU promo that ran on ESPN2 during the ASU / ULM game on October 19. Scott did some really rad sfx work to create the ratcheting sounds that mark the Transformers-ish action early in this video. Without giving too much away I’ll just mention[…]
The assignment: write and record a school song/national anthem for a sports team that sounds like a huge men’s chorus. Demo it up in less than a week. We really had fun doing it. We listened to a lot of school songs. Sellout came up with the composition. Singers were hired. We had a concert[…]
Our pal Tara at Third Degree Creative just posted a nice piece on her blog about a spot we produced last week. As she points out, the casting on this spot was too good to go without comment. Anyway I’ll let her post explain why Angel Tolentino was the perfect actress/artist for this spot. Third[…]
One of my favorite bits of the job is working with actors: finding a character, creating an emotional context, honing a performance. Occasionally we get to put that aside and simply work with un-narrated visuals, like this piece for Intake Studio. And you know what? That’s darn fun too.
Another in the “Recent Work” catagory: This spot makes me smile. Friendly VO, nice music and sound effects work that celebrates the playful vibe of the visuals. After trying several approaches on the car sound, we decided that the toy-box look needed a toy-box sound. Foley lip-buzzing by yours truly, modded with a “bubbly” vocoder[…]
Here’s a new radio spot we produced last week that’s airing in Nashville. It’s kind of weird. Especially the opening chord. I think that has something to do with pandiatonic harmony. Anyway, the whole concept behind the dialogue is some kind of inside joke. I don’t get it. Apparently there was an invasion in the[…]
On Tuesday, the Energy Efficiency Arkansas campaign we worked on last month officially launched. R&B group lends song, images to Ark. energy ads – BusinessWeek via kwout That’s right, BusinessWeek, we got to record ARCHIE BELL AND THE DRELLS! Archie Bell and the Drells Archie Bell and the Drells and the Scott For this project,[…]
Here’s more news of Lucky Dog award winning work. Check out this ADDY award winning video we mixed for Zehnder Communications last year. LSUHSC Important Work from LSU Health Sciences Center on Vimeo. Plus Zehnder won ADDY’s for Edgen Murray (web animation) and Louisiana Public Health Institute’s smoking cessation campaign (radio). Both projects received the[…]
Looks like our buddies at Third Degree totally cleaned up this year at the Oklahoma City ADDYs with their Buck the Norm campaign!! Buck yeah! Buck the Norm won Best Interactive, Best Broadcast and Best In Show!!! Whoo hoo! We had a lot of fun working on this project. Besides finding a unique piece of[…]
Today, we had the honor of recording former NFL player and television broadcasting legend Pat Summerall via ISDN patch. PS, I would have linked to a picture of Pat’s “Legends of Broadcasting” trading card but those don’t exist. Though they should!!!
Here’s some recent work for Third Degree featuring a voice over by yours truly. Yarg!
It seems like we’ve been getting more and more requests for voice talent that sound “real” and “not announcery.” Of course, that can mean different things to different people. Here’s what it meant to one mad genius client of ours. Listen to “Keywords“ Credits: Agency: Red Deluxe Writer: Justin Dobbs
Photo: T. Bllard Leseman, 1983 My first band was called Modern Art. As you can see in the above flyer, we were very serious about being a band. First off, we had a look – berets. Yep. We all wore berets. You know, the kind of hats that Claude Monet used to wear. I guess[…]
Our recent work for CJRW and the Arkansas State Police Highway Safety Office features the voice of a GPS unit that starts giving it’s driver a little bit more than simple driving directions. This spot stars Kelly Klemonlin as the voice of the GPS, Tracy Thibodeaux as the announcer, and the sounds of a Garmin[…]
The day before yesterday, we thought we were being soooo clever. We were working on a spot that required GPS SFX so we hopped in the car with Scott’s Magellan GPS unit, programmed directions to Lucky Dog Audio, took a spin around downtown Little Rock, and recorded the Magellan beeping and cooing at us as[…]