Creative Voicemail Greetings

 The Voicemail Balancing Act

Sometimes business communications can be a tricky, touchy can of worms. Just like a line-out 10 meters from the try line. Do you get the ball down early and go for the push-over? Or whip it across the backline and head for the corner?

Decisions. What goes through the advertising Director’s mind when the Copywriter comes up with a brilliant but very controversial script for the TV commercial?

The Director is the one who has to weigh up the risk and responsibility. The risk of possibly offending the audience versus the responsibility to get the product noticed.

It’s a similar dilemma when deciding on Creative Voicemail Greetings. However usually with Voicemail, you stand a greater risk of stepping on sensitivities.

Avoiding Bombs

The telephone is a far more intimate way to communicate compared to running a TV campaign or scheduling a series of risqué radio ads. So the chances of you really getting up some noses can be very high.

You probably know from experience just how the script you thought was a harmless piece of fun can turn out to be the trigger for nuclear war.

Before you commit to any Creative Voicemail Greetings you need to take a deep breath and review the possibility of creating havoc at the switchboard.

It might be worth taking the script for the proposed greeting and running it past a few people around the office. If the budget allows, put it in front of a Focus Group.

Funny Isn’t Always Clever

The most important thing is to not appoint yourself as the sole judge. Always remember what you regard as humour might be totally offensive to others.

It’s equally bad if the so-called creative effort is not easily understood or so oblique it becomes a topic of conversation for its weirdness.

Again remember that if people don’t readily understand something they’ll either totally ignore it (bad) or start complaining (worse). You could wind up on the camera after the nightly news having to explain your way out of a self-inflicted scandal.

The best way to avoid any and all of this is to call on the expertise of Media Group NZ, the business audio specialists. www.mediagroup.co.nz

New Zealand Voice Talent Agency

 Once a convict always a…

Why is it that across the ditch on the “West Isle” Aussies think it’s cool to adopt Kiwi stuff and claim it as their own? I’m not just talking about a big chestnut horse or a style of fleecy-lined boots. Or even a delicious meringue desert.  

The real kidnapping involves some very talented Kiwis. Musicians, actors, footballers, entrepreneurs, and more.

The list is endless. Singers and entertainers like Ricky May (vale), Max Merritt and the Meteors, Neil Finn, and depending on the mood his brother Tim.

If NZ wasn’t in the band name Split Enz might have been claimed en masse. Although to be fair Neil did cross over to the dark side when he joined Aussies Paul Hester (vale) and Nick Seymour to form Crowded House.

Some of Australia’s best voice artists also began life in the land of the “long white cloud”. Actor and rugby league aficionado Russell Crowe tops the current list.

However, the ground was pioneered by the talents of Peter Gwynne (vale) and his wife Cecily Polson. You will remember Cecily from films like “Muriel’s Wedding” and “See no Evil”. She also starred in the Aussie TV series “E Street”.

It would be remiss not to highlight the greatest corporate Voice Over guy ever, Paul Ricketts (aka Scott Newman, aka Doctor Ricketts). Sadly the world lost Paul in 2018.
Break out of the rut

So today when you need a voice over for your next project head to the best Professional Voice Talent Agency New Zealand has to offer. Media Group NZ.

You could pussy-foot around all month auditioning amateurs. What a waste. All you need is a few clicks on the mouse or taps on a screen and Media Group NZ will deliver.

Everything happens online. At the Media Group NZ website, you’ll hear samples of previous recordings by an immense array of voice over artists.

To help hone your selection the voices are classified by gender, age group, style, and ethnicity.

As the most experienced Professional Voice Talent Agency New Zealand can provide, Media Group NZ will ensure you find the right voice every time.

When you have made a choice, ask for a free online quote. If the budget is in the order you can also make a request for your preferred talent to supply a free demo read using an excerpt your script. Too easy!

Voice Agency Christchurch, Auckland & Wellington NZ

For years I laboured under the misapprehension the title Voice Over was another employment opportunity offered by the mob. The other was in Stand Over.

I wasn’t sure if I should say “Voice Over” or “Voiceover”. I presumed one way was the old Sicilian style and the other a New York influence. I was concerned.

Everybody knows what Stand Over means with the mob. It means lots of standing around looking tough. Maybe a smoke drooping from your lower lip. You know the non-filter type. It’s always flopping around on the lip but never comes unstuck.

Stand Over means being able to block an entire doorway with your eyebrows. It means having friends in high places who are scared of what you might know. And scared friends in low places who might know all the details.

The title Stand Over isn’t meant to be taken literally. Sure the mob leans on people but that should be regarded as more of an incentive scheme.

These days Stand Over is a misnomer. Standing astride a person like some Colossus in a double breasted suit hardly fits the genteel approach favoured by most modern hitmen. (Advice to ex-spies; Don’t drink tea with strangers who smoke Russian cigarettes) 

THE DILEMMA REMAINS

What Does A Voice Over Do? Unlike the aforementioned Stand Over, it’s highly unlikely that a Voice Over will pull a gun on you and demand all your money. Or even do their best Colossus of Roads impression. Unless you would like to hear an audio interpretation of that legendry oversized Greek.

A Voice Over is an audio actor. A person who articulates the words crafted by a scriptwriter on subjects ranging from breakfast cereal to more interesting topics such as the mating habits of newts and more. Stay tuned for the special expose on   banning TV reporting of live coral spawning until after 10pm.

So if you need of a Voice Over, to whom do you turn? Someone to breathe life into the script for your radio or TV commercial. A talent who can create interest in a presentation on any topic.