VOICEMAN BULLETIN - DRAGAN WENDE
The scene at Shanghai Studios throughout the winter has been ticking along nicely - no more calls from Roman Polanski or being invited to be the ‘voice’ of a high-profile campaign - but life for a voiceover isn’t always glamorous.
Still, there have been some very interesting jobs such as working for a German film company on a documentary entitled “Dragan Wende”. This is the blurb :
“In the eyes of his nephew, Dragan Wende was a myth. The stories of his uncle chronicled a man who left Yugoslavia to seemingly become the king of the common man in 1970s West Berlin. Dragan’s disco-era world was filled with strippers, champagne and a crime racket with guys known as The Crow and The Baker. Over three decades later, Vuk decides to seek out his uncle. In place of the hedonistic playboy, he finds an ageing bordello security guard longing for the days before the Wall came down. Soon Vuk becomes directly entangled with Dragan’s skewed world, where doing street-side bordello promotion is a hard day’s work, smuggling jackets is a perfectly logical way to make quick cash and political correctness is never a priority. This is not a tourist’s guide to Berlin; this is Dragan Wende’s version”.
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With economies the way they are, large and medium-sized global companies have been eager to push their presence online and seem to favour my powerful-yet-soft-sell narrative bolted onto their slick videos. Some are very serious but others use themes like the A-Team parodies to get their message across.
Many of these corporate jobs have come via my friends at Voiceovers.co.uk - those boys in Plymouth, Gary, Paul & Co are professional, super-efficient...and very nice guys too!
On the technical side, Shanghai Studios now has a remote recording facility in the form of Apogee’s new “Mic” plugged into an iPad loaded with the iAudition app. Simple, portable and effective. So recording and sending mp3s on-the-road is easy via WiFi while I enjoy a double espresso at Starbucks!
Other times you’ll find me, as usual, in my sound booth, which is so deluxe it’s like a 5-star hotel room I never want to leave...
Still, there have been some very interesting jobs such as working for a German film company on a documentary entitled “Dragan Wende”. This is the blurb :
“In the eyes of his nephew, Dragan Wende was a myth. The stories of his uncle chronicled a man who left Yugoslavia to seemingly become the king of the common man in 1970s West Berlin. Dragan’s disco-era world was filled with strippers, champagne and a crime racket with guys known as The Crow and The Baker. Over three decades later, Vuk decides to seek out his uncle. In place of the hedonistic playboy, he finds an ageing bordello security guard longing for the days before the Wall came down. Soon Vuk becomes directly entangled with Dragan’s skewed world, where doing street-side bordello promotion is a hard day’s work, smuggling jackets is a perfectly logical way to make quick cash and political correctness is never a priority. This is not a tourist’s guide to Berlin; this is Dragan Wende’s version”.
Other news...
With economies the way they are, large and medium-sized global companies have been eager to push their presence online and seem to favour my powerful-yet-soft-sell narrative bolted onto their slick videos. Some are very serious but others use themes like the A-Team parodies to get their message across.
Many of these corporate jobs have come via my friends at Voiceovers.co.uk - those boys in Plymouth, Gary, Paul & Co are professional, super-efficient...and very nice guys too!
On the technical side, Shanghai Studios now has a remote recording facility in the form of Apogee’s new “Mic” plugged into an iPad loaded with the iAudition app. Simple, portable and effective. So recording and sending mp3s on-the-road is easy via WiFi while I enjoy a double espresso at Starbucks!
Other times you’ll find me, as usual, in my sound booth, which is so deluxe it’s like a 5-star hotel room I never want to leave...