Gustavo Rex records McDonald’s Commercial at Elite
We had another great VO talent recording for a very important campaign at Elite Music Studios. We were honored to work with Gustavo Rex for a new McDonald’s campaign.
Gustavo is a renowned actor that normally works in L.A. and has worked in every genre of the arts like film, theater and commercial work.
He is currently visiting family in Miami.
Our very own CC Limardo recorded a total of 8,000 words for our client GM Voices this week.
This was in a total of 4 session, 2 hours each. A very long script of IVRs but very rewarding for a talented VO actress like her.
GM Voices offers female and male voice actors in over 100 languages and dialects for their clients.
The VO Tips are back!
It has been a very busy couple of months but here we are! And this is this weeks VO Tip!
BREATHE CONVERSATIONALLY
One of the secrets for proper breathing during a voice over performance is actually very easy to master: take in enough air to say what you have to say. If you don’t take enough air you will run out of breath before your idea is finished. And if you take in to much air, that will result in a sudden and unnatural exhale at the end of your line.
Listen to how you, and others, manage breathing during a normal conversation. You will notice that no one takes a deep breath before saying anything. In conversation, we breathe naturally and comfortably, we breathe without thinking of what we are doing.
Sometimes you will be working on a script with extremely long, complicated sentences. Breath points in most copy usually occur after a portion of a thought has been stated. Listings provide natural break points between each item. You probably won’t want to breathe between each item, but there usually is an opportunity if you need it.
Of course, when reading from a script, the words are not yours. But as voice actors we must make the words sound as if they are yours. We must make them sound as conversational and believable as possible.
Pianist Christopher O’Riley records his Radio Show from Elite Music Studios
The wondeful pianist Christopher O’Riley is known to millions as the host of NPR’s show “From the Top”. We had the immense pleasure to have him in our Miami Studio to fulfill his commitments with this show that has been on the air for 15 years nationally.
O’Riley is in Miami to take part in The Steinway & Sons Piano Extravaganza with The Miami Symphony Orchestra, an extraordinary concert where 6 pianists shared a stage together with the Miamy Symphony Orchestra under the conduction of Eduardo Marturet. Celebrating Steinway & Sons 161st Anniversary, this piano extravaganza included Liszt’s massive musical potpourri for six pianists.
We were astonished by such an emotional performance! Having a maestro of classical music of this range in our studio makes us feel … from the top!!
We had TV Actor Omar Avila recording a commercial in the studio
Omar Avila is a Cuban-American actor who appeared in the films Once Upon A Wedding and The Punisher. He grew up in Miami and got his big break in the Telemundo series Los Teens. He has appeared in several telenovelas, including Soñar No Cuesta Nada and Watch Over Me. He also played Esteban Hernández in the third season finale of House.
He was recording a commercial with a recording studio in Colorado called Rocky Mountains. The commercial was set in Las Vegas. It was very fun to have him in the studio and we would love to record him again.
This week we recorded two Radio spots and four TV spots for KFCs new campaign. The VO talent selected after a long casting with a couple of call backs was our friend Vicente Solis.
KFC (Kentucky Fried Chicken) was founded by Harland Sanders, an entrepreneur who began selling fried chicken from his roadside restaurant in Corbin, Kentucky, during the Great Depression. Sanders identified the potential of restaurant franchising, and the first “Kentucky Fried Chicken” franchise opened in Salt Lake City, Utah in 1952. KFC popularized chicken in the fast-food industry, diversifying the market by challenging the established dominance of the hamburger. Branding himself “Colonel Sanders”, the founder became a prominent figure of American cultural history, and his image remains widely used in KFC advertising. The company’s rapid expansion made it too large for Sanders to manage, and in 1964 he sold the company to a group of investors led by John Y. Brown, Jr. and Jack C. Massey.
KFC was one of the first fast-food chains to expand internationally, opening outlets in England, Mexico and Jamaica by the mid-1960s. Throughout the 1970s and 1980s, KFC experienced mixed success domestically, as it went through a series of changes in corporate ownership with little or no experience in the restaurant business. In the early 1970s, KFC was sold to the spirits distributor Heublein, which was taken over by the R.J. Reynolds food and tobacco conglomerate, which later sold the chain to PepsiCo. The chain continued to expand overseas, and in 1987 KFC became the first Western restaurant chain to open in China.
In 1997, PepsiCo spun off its restaurants division as Tricon Global Restaurants, which changed its name to Yum! Brands in 2002. Yum has proved a more focused owner than Pepsi, and although KFC’s number of outlets have declined in the US, the company has continued to grow in Asia, South America and Africa. The chain has expanded to 18,875 outlets across 118 countries and territories, with 4,563 outlets in China alone, KFC’s largest market.
Ali Benarbia ISDNs to London for a LIVE interview from Elite
We had Professional Football Player Ali Benarbia in the studio for a Live Interview using our ISDN facilities. He was interviewed by Hugh Ferris for Sportswell, a live radio show broadcasted by BBC Sport in London, UK.
Ali has had a long career playing football for many clubs in Europe such as FC Martigues, AS Monaco, FC Bordeaux and Manchester City.
Benarbia made his debut in a 2002 African Cup of Nations Group 4 qualifying game against Burkina Faso in September 2000. He represented Algeria a total of seven times, participating in three World Cup qualifying games, two Africa Cup of Nations Cup qualifiers and two friendlies.
He was really nice to work with and we would love to have him again!
Renowned actor CLANCY BROWN records at Elite!
It has been a very busy week over here! We’ve had 3 celebrities visit us just this week and in still Thursday! On Monday we had Iggy Pop who was recording his Radio Show for BBC as usual. On Tuesday we had Jeremy Wade with an ADR for his River Monsters Show for Animal Planet. And yesterday we had the amazing pleasure of having Clancy Brown record a 2 hour session for Chevrolet, while visiting in Miami.
Clancy Brown is an American film, television and voice actor. He is known for his live-action roles as Captain Byron Hadley in The Shawshank Redemption; The Kurgan in Highlander; Brother Justin Crowe in Carnivàle and Career Sergeant Zim in Starship Troopers. Brown is also known for providing the voices of animated characters such as Mr. Eugene H. Krabs in the animated series SpongeBob SquarePants; Lex Luthor throughout various DC projects; Captain Black and Ratso in Jackie Chan Adventures; Otto in Super Robot Monkey Team Hyperforce Go!; Dr. Neo Cortex in the original Crash Bandicoot video games; Savage Opress in Star Wars: The Clone Wars; Long Feng in Avatar: The Last Airbender, and Yakone in The Legend of Korra.
We think he is an incredible voice actor who definitely enjoys and knows his craft. He is apparently coming back next week!
We had our own River Monster at Elite Music Studios!
Jeremy Wade visited us in Miami to record several hours of ADRs for the River Monsters show in Animal Planet. This is a wildlife documentary television show produced for Animal Planet by Icon Films of Bristol, United Kingdom. Hosted by biologist Jeremy Wade who travels around the globe in search of the most fearsome freshwater killers.
Wade is also a published author. With joint-author Paul Boote, in 1992 Wade published his first book, Somewhere Down the Crazy River.Also, he made his acting debut in the 2014 film Blood Lake: Attack of the Killer Lampreys, playing a lamprey expert. He had previously covered the fish in the River Monsters episode “Vampires of the Deep.”
Mr. Wade and Dominic from Icon Films were very nice to work for and we hope to see them again!
Bernie Goldberg records at Elite again!
