mark nelson - Flexible, character specialist, friendly, warm

Flexible, character specialist, friendly, warm

• mark nelson is registered with Voice123 since Jun 18, 2008.
• mark nelson started his/her voice over career in 2006.
• Currently mark nelson is a Standard subscriber.
• Auditions and proposals submitted through Voice123 during the past six months: 0

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Voice Description

I am a versatile voice artist capable of providing straight narration and comedic/cartoon character voices.

Age Range: from children to 80s (and beyond)

Media List: commercial, corporate, documentary, narration, cartoon / computer game

Voice Styles:
Natural, warm and deep for narrations and commercials;

Fun, reassuring & smiling, for commercials;

Humourous, cheeky/bubbly, mimic/impressionist,posh/aristocratic, streetwise/gangster, camp & child-like for character or cartoon projects

Voice Genders and "Ages" I Can Perform

• Child
• Teenage Boy
• Young Adult Male
• Middle Age Male
• Senior Female
• Senior Male

Language(s) of Which I Am a Native Speaker:

• English - British
• English - Other

I Offer my Services for these Recording Purposes

• Commercials
• Promos
• IVR, voicemail, phone systems, and on-hold messages
• Training, business presentations, sales, and web sites
• Audiobooks
• Videogames
• Documentaries
• TV shows and movies
• Movie and game trailers
• Podcasts
• Songs
• Others (on-camera, infomercials, live announcers, spokespersons)

Jobs I Am Willing to Take (Union-wise)

• Non-Union Jobs

My Union Affiliations and Memberships

None

My Recording and Delivery Capabilities

• I can record and then deliver the audio files via Email

Pre-, Post- and Production Services I Offer

• I offer copywriting services
• I can deliver edited and finished voice tracks
• I offer radio ad production services
• I can add special effects to any project

My Home Base

London, United Kingdom

Accents, Impersonations, Characters and Dialects

Languages and Accents: English (but in many accents): London, North West, Midlands, Northern, Scottish, American East Coast, American Southern States, Australian, French accent,Spanish accent, Russian accent, Eastern European (other) accent, Indian accent (these are accents not the actual languages!)

Impersonations: including Marge Simpson, Paul McCartney, Russell Crowe, Jonathan Ross, Tony Blair, Popeye, Prince Charles, HM the Queen (albeit cartoon-esque)

Characters: Radio DJs, old ladies, old men, posh men, gangster types both American & british), camp men, my own cartoon characters (squeaky, stupid, funny, evil)

My Voice Experience

Over ten years’ experience of providing voices on a semi-professional level for a variety of projects.

TV work: My voice was recently featured in the 'Virgin Trains - 'Big Train' Television advertisement shown on terrestrial and cable television (2007).

Radio work: BBC Radio broadcasts narration, voice-over for translation and voices for trailers [BBC World Service; BBC Radio 5, and London Live) (2000-2007);

Website work: Provided narrator voice for GoSouthGo’s website presenting business tutorials on tendering for the Olympics 2012 bids.

Computer Gaming: Recently provided the voice of Popeye for a new fruit machine game (July 2008).

Various voices for sporting computer games (2002-present).

I have also provided a plethora of voice characterisations for self-produced comedy shows broadcast as podcasts and shortly available on I-Tunes. [included in my demo].

My Training

BA First Class Hons in Media Technology (at London College of Music & Media, Thames Valley University, London) 1999

BBC Sound Operations course (Studio Manager with the BBC 2000-present)

BBC Presentation course (2005)

Producer, Presenter ('Breakfast Show' and 'Mike Trousers Comedy Show') and Sound Engineer for 'TUBE Radio' student radio station at Thames Valley University, London(1997-1999)

Produced my own comedy shows for radio (as podcasts) and my own comedy spoof movies involving cuddly toys including 'Teddy Potty' (spoof on Harry Potter) and the 'Bear Witch Project' (spoof on Blair Witch Project).

Guitarist and songwriter and singer for 20 years, currently performing regularly with own rock band (SuperSmiler) in and around London.

My Studio Equipment

Cubase VST 5.1 sequencing software
Rode NT 1 microphone
Cool Edit Pro editing software
Wavelab editing software
Alesis M1 active monitoring speakers
Self built music PC

Soon looking to upgrade to Pro Tools and an Apple Mac

Additional Skills

My experience and skills as a voice artist and particularly as a comedy performer and musician mean I appreciate the importance of intonation, timing and pacing and can adapt these to the needs of each project I undertake.

I am a well accomplished sound technician (with skills in digital editing) so I am capable of creating and manipulating sound to the highest quality.

I am a very creative person who enjoys a challenge and as a 'finisher' I always endeavour to provide the best service to a client.