Summon up all your capacity for doomed adolescent romance, lean over the parapet and cry, “Wherefore art thou, Answer Me This! Episode 318?” In which we discuss:
the oldest pub in Britain
Juliet’s balcony
Juliet’s boob
Cornish pasties vs calzones
Noel Edmonds on Twitter vs Noel Edmonds’s mullet on Twitter
ye vs þe
Cinderella dresses
chat show drinks
alcohol’s evolution
the Skirrid Mountain Inn
the Matrix phone
The Snip
Sally Jessy Raphael
and
King Bluetooth.
Plus: as a result of today’s questioneer, Olly has cancelled his vasectomy; Helen has no time for ‘ye olde’; and Martin the Sound Man is keeping up with the movements of Tiffany, mutually bonded forever by familiarity with Staffordshire.
In today’s Bonus Bit of Crap on the App (available for iThings, Android and Windows devices) we continue to consider Bluetooth, and wonder when our connected household appliances will start embarrassing us on social media. Oh, they already have? Shurrup, kettle, or you’re going in the bin.
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We’ll return on 23rd July 2015 with AMT319. Keep polishing your boobs till then.
Helen & Olly
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July 11, 2015 at 10:11 pm |
RE: ‘Actors voices’ on TV,
I’ve worked in a couple of TV newsrooms and yes the ‘actors voices’ are just someone from the office dragged in to read it.
The convention is that the same voice can’t be used twice in a day/bulletin, so if a lot are needed – for example if there were several foreign vox-pop sequences – then everyone would get roped in: video editors, the reception desk, friends of colleagues who’d popped in etc
I was never that keen as I don’t like hearing my own voice and I was never any good at it (it’s harder than you think), but I’ve played medical malpractise patients, President Sarkozy and homophobic Russians
July 9, 2015 at 9:29 pm |
Top tip for getting rid of mouth noises when recording is to eat an apple. I’m sure Martin will knkw the science behind it, but it’s a trick I use when recording voice overs if the actor is a bit clacky.
July 9, 2015 at 10:28 pm |
I’ve tried! Apple is no match for my noisy mouth, yuk yuk.