You’ll find my voice representing grey companies, colourful companies, and some grey companies who are trying very hard to come across as colourful.
Corporate Voicework generally ends up being internal media, for employees. Though, there are jobs that are half Corporate and half Commercial, mostly for B2B advertising.
In this area, my voice takes a back seat to the information, and the aim is to be pleasant to listen to, and respectable to judge.
“George is ace to work with, apart from having a great voice, he gets it! Second time I have worked with him now, always a pleasure!”
“I highly recommend George! He has provided us with a natural and friendly sounding professional voice over for several of our films and animations, with a fast turnaround and great service.”
“George has been our go to voice over artist for a large number of our projects here at Bexmedia. He’s always a pleasure to work with and delivers high quality recordings every time without fail. We look forward to working with George again.”
“George is very professional and the contact with him was excellent. His turnaround times are really short, even when small adjustments have to be made. We recommend him without hesitation and will work with him again with great pleasure (new projects are already planned).”
Corporations and Companies are always going to have a need to disseminate information. Either to employees (internal corporate) or to suppliers/clients (external corporate). There’s also a third option, which is relaying information to the general public, often in the form of media that blurs the line between Commercial, Corporate, and Explainer styles.
It’s usually leveller than an advert.
In the modern day, my voice is perfect for the slightly more “human” feel companies like to aim for. There’s currently a general (and growing) distrust for capital, business, and the ownership class, making it imperative that you have a trustworthy face, voice, and vibe backing every venture.
You can tell from my long hair and general scruffiness that I probably share this distrust, but I am a cog in this machine too, for better or for worse, and I play my part with great attention to detail.
Oh yes, back to the voice! It’s easy to listen to. Not too posh, not too regional. Intelligent enough for sounding confident in most subject matters, while not so lofty so as to sound condescending or patronising (do these two words mean the same thing?).
Basically, hire me because I’ll produce an astonishingly authoritative/down-to-earth/steady voiceover for your Corporate video, get you a draft back within 48 hours, and can even offer some script tweaks if you feel the original copy is a tad stuffy.
Corporate Voiceover actually hasn’t changed as much in my time as some of the other areas (i.e. Commercial).
There is that desire (as I’ve mentioned all over this website) for a video to have an authentic humanity to it, which overall I much prefer. Thinking back to a kind of transatlantic monoculture corporate messaging 75 years ago, we’ve come a long way, where now a less polished sound is preferred. Only a little less polished though.
Even before artificial voices hit the scene, I was moving into sounding a little rougher around the edges on my reads, but of course now that’s necessary for the read to sound humanly imperfect.
