How Do You Say That?‪!‬ Mark Ryes and Samantha Boffin

In this episode of “How Do You Say That?!” sponsored by britishvoiceover.co.uk, Dutch voice actor Bart Kooiman joins Sam and Mark to talk about the millennial read (and what that even means), a panto documentary, and how some clients don't give you enough information. There's a boy who comes face-to-face with a dragon and a farmer gets an electric shock!
Our VO question this week is all about the evolution of language, both Dutch and English.
Get involved! Have you got a Wildcard suggestion that we should try or an idea for the show? Send it to us via Mark or Sam's social media or email it directly to podcast@britishvoiceover.co.uk
Script 1
Pantomimes are full of quick changes and transformations. And the dressers, often poised in the wings, are on hand to help with fastenings and complicated costumes.
Zips though can be a nightmare: quick if they run smoothly but disastrous if they stick. There are few things more likely to stress out an actor than the panic of going on stage half dressed.
Quick-change costumes are designed so that they can be removed quickly - and rigged so they can be put on quickly… very quickly!
Script 2
Stressexe is a marketplace where bookings can be bought, sold, and bid on.
Here’s how…
Let’s say a guy - call him Craig – makes a reservation.
It could be for a barber, or membership of a golf club – or maybe it’s for a toy, for his niece.
But what happens if Craig can’t use his reservation anymore?
Maybe he has to work late. Or maybe the sitter has cancelled.
Craig’s place goes to waste.

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About our guest:
Bart Kooiman was born and raised in Amsterdam. His voice clients include brands like Citroën, Head & Shoulders, Heineken, Listerine and the Red Cross. He works primarily in Dutch, but with his Dutch-to-neutral European accent he’s booked in English as well.
Bart has had a knack for acting since he was a boy. At 13, he did his first voice-over job for Dutch national television, voicing a group of 16 Moldovian foster children. He continued acting on stage through college in both classical and contemporary plays with an independent Amsterdam theatre group.
As project manager, Bart found out he loved storytelling. He began his voice acting business in 2019 and discovered it’s the best career in the world.
Mostly booked for explainers, he loves it most when he can go all the way with crazy acting roles. As one of his clients put it: Bart is like a speech chameleon. He calls himself Dutch voice nerd, because playing with words is what makes him get up every day. Well, that and his 3 kids.
Bart's Website
@bartkooiman_voiceover on Instagram
Bart on YouTube

Resources: a href="https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1WhlCrHghHs83OcEqrRBXxKMXAz_mexinwkCOvwJQfVo/edit#gid=0" rel="noopener noreferrer"...

Short trailer for Episode 72 of "How Do You Say That" sponsored by britishvoiceover.co.uk featuring Mark Ryes, Samantha Boffin and Bart Kooiman.
Mark's demos & contact details: https://linktr.ee/britishvoiceovermark
Sam's demos & contact details: https://linktr.ee/samanthaboffin

In this episode of “How Do You Say That?!” sponsored by britishvoiceover.co.uk, Bev Standing joins Sam and Mark to talk about balancing the right level of caring and nurturing in a heart-tugging script, making sense of seemingly technical nonsense scripts, bringing out your inner Goddess, and Mark attempts the ballet "first position"!
Our VO question this week is all about entering the voiceover industry in later life - and the advantages that can bring!
Get involved! Have you got a Wildcard suggestion that we should try or an idea for the show? Send it to us via Mark or Sam's social media or email it directly to podcast@britishvoiceover.co.uk
Script 1
We are starting to test large-scale improvements to team perks. We haven't created a new system, but rather developed the existing one. Let's call it a serious evolution.
Now, each team member has just six slots for main perks. There is good news for crew members who fulfill several roles at once. It is a "bonus perk" system. If a crew member has a secondary qualification, it will be trained alongside the major one. Bonus perks do not increase the total training time, no matter how many there are.
Script 2
Losing a child is terrifying.
A nightmare many people face every day in our country
To help locate a child, it takes a company that is everywhere.
Introducing: Lost Child Awareness
Our company, the biggest out of home media company here…
Turned its billboards into a real-time tool for searching for lost children.
With the support of advertisers, every single ad stops, and the search starts.
Lost Child Awareness.
When a child is lost, there's nothing more important to be advertised.

**Listen to all of our podcasts here - you can also watch on YouTube, or say to your smart speaker "Play How Do You Say That?!"
About our guest:
Bev is a full time voice actor and has been for over 10 years. Located in Ontario Canada, her focus is on commercial, non-broadcast, elearning and telephony for the most part but has also narrated the one and only season of a TV show titled "The People's Couch", based off Goggle Box in the UK.
She's been an animated ball with arms and legs for a maths program, voiced characters in a WarGaming video, and so far has recorded one audio book.
Bev might be best known as the original Text-to-Speech voice of TikTok, who in 2021 brought a lawsuit against the social media platform for the unauthorised use of her voice.
She is also a co-Territory Controller for Gravy for the Brain Canada, alongside Graeme Spicer.
Bev's Website
@bevstanding on Instagram
@bevstanding on Twitter

Resources: Click here for the Wildcard Generator and don't forget to think of an action your character can be doing!

Mark's demos & contact...

Short trailer for Episode 71 of "How Do You Say That" sponsored by britishvoiceover.co.uk featuring Mark Ryes, Samantha Boffin and Bev Standing.
Mark's demos & contact details: https://linktr.ee/britishvoiceovermark
Sam's demos & contact details: https://linktr.ee/samanthaboffin

In this episode of “How Do You Say That?!” sponsored by britishvoiceover.co.uk, Jo Ashe joins Sam and Mark to talk about audio walking tours, how to give castles, towers and fortresses a character voice, going from huge to tiny within the same script... and how to properly project a fit of the giggles!
Our VO question this week is all about whether it you that you bring to a script or a character version of you!
Get involved! Have you got a Wildcard suggestion that we should try or an idea for the show? Send it to us via Mark or Sam's social media or email it directly to podcast@britishvoiceover.co.uk
Script 1
No-one likes unhappy users.
Getting good feedback is vital!
But traditional end-user surveys don’t work.
Happy IT gives you that vital feedback.
In fact, Happy IT combined with operational data from your block system, gives you ‘outcome based analytics’.
This is a measure of how happy your end-users are with their IT devices, apps and services.
Now you can identify issues, root causes and related processes that need to be changed.
Script 2
Good day to you! I’m up here! But how could you miss me - me the fortress. Since the 13th century I have been sitting high above the Valley. Day in and day out I watch the jolly excitement of the city and the people are very proud when looking up at the fortress hill to see my imposing walls. I have already experienced many things, the funny, the sad and the peculiar; but what is happening now, it truly leaves me speechless; it’s unbelievable the fate awaiting me!

**Listen to all of our podcasts here - you can also watch on YouTube, or say to your smart speaker "Play How Do You Say That?!"
About our guest:
Jo is one of the 4th generation of an acting family. She’s an experienced actress having worked in theatre, films and tv all her life. She is now also an award winning voiceover and has recorded audio dramas, games, animations, audiobooks, documentaries and museum guides. Her clients include The BBC, Warner Brothers, John Lewis, Ring, Macmillan, Boots, Headspace, Chase Bank and the EU. Jo has been once again nominated for the Radio Drama One Voice Award.
Jo's Website
@jo.ashe on Instagram
@JoAshe2 on Twitter
Jo's Facebook page

Resources: Click here for the Wildcard Generator and don't forget to think of an action your character can be doing!

Mark's demos & contact details: https://linktr.ee/britishvoiceovermark
Sam's demos & contact details: https://linktr.ee/samanthaboffin

Short trailer for Episode 70 of "How Do You Say That" sponsored by britishvoiceover.co.uk featuring Mark Ryes, Samantha Boffin and Jo Ashe.
Mark's demos & contact details: https://linktr.ee/britishvoiceovermark
Sam's demos & contact details: https://linktr.ee/samanthaboffin