Episode 116
André Refig: The one with the Over Inflated Balloon!
In ep 116 of “How Do You Say That?!” sponsored by britishvoiceover.co.uk, André Refig joins Sam and Mark to explore the musicality of an infomercial call to action… and how to create proper characterisation within a mobile-phone video game. There's also an astounding stretchy-to-the-point-of-bursting wildcard!
Our VO question this week is all about creating characters for videos games - where to start, how to flesh them out, and what a director really wants!
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
What do you do when your tyre goes flat and there's no air anywhere to fix that? You reach for INFLATE PRO! The smart, fast, hands-free way to fill it up with air.
Inflate Pro is so advanced, it has a built-in smart pressure digital sensor that gauges and automatically stops when the set tyre pressure is reached. Plus it can be 100% hands-free. You simply set the target pressure and walk away, keeping you out of harm's way.
In just 2 minutes, you’ll go from low to GO with Inflate Pro!
Script 2
Start VO:
“Dice dice baby!”
“Dice to meet you (insert nerdy laugh)”
Hurts someone:
"You appear to have had a critical failure."
"You clearly forgot to read subsection 37 of rule 749. Loser!"
Uses special move:
"Cheatmode enabled!"
"Time for some dicey hacks!"
Dies:
"But...but... my calculations"
"Loosing to a n00b. Perfect."
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About our guest:
André Refig is a bilingual actor and voiceover with a native accent in both French and English and he works roughly 50-50 in each. He specialises in the corporate and video game sectors, but has also voiced TV and radio commercials, audio dramas, animations, ELT, audiobooks, with plenty of dubbing and ADR. Game franchises he’s worked on include Assassin’s Creed, Cyberpunk, Dying Light, Brawl Stars, Formula 1, Age of Empires and more.
On screen he’s been in TV series such as Killing Eve and We Were the Lucky Ones, and he’s been treading the boards professionally since 2008, most proudly having been in the original cast of the current West End production of Cabaret. He has two young boys, the eldest of which has also started working in voiceover at the tender age of 7! In his non-existent spare time, he enjoys baking!
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