Martin Whiskin Voice Over jobs and careers

About Martin Whiskin Voice Over

I felt the need to be creative very early on, but didn't know how or where to express it. In my early teens, I went to my first gig and immediately knew that playing guitar and singing was the perfect outlet. I remember telling someone at a party I was going to be a famous rock star. Let's just say, what he said turned out to be correct. For the next 15 years, making music was my absolute passion. I was lucky enough to play shows and festivals all over the UK and even had a teeny tiny bit of Radio 1 airplay! I always took a camera with me and that developed into a keen interest in photography, capturing special moments in a single frame. During that time I started to volunteer at a community radio station, playing tracks from local bands and live engineering them in the studio. This was my first taster of being a "voice". Not content with playing in a band and being a DJ's sidekick, I still needed another avenue to create in. I started writing, filming and editing comedy sketches (HILARIOUS). This pushed me towards telling stories and I started to write screenplays and short stories. When I finally started to reign back my hectic music schedule, it gave me time to try something else. Jokes (HILARIOUS). This became a bit of an obsession, writing thousands over a couple of years and producing content for several Twitter accounts. After being made redundant from my 'proper' job in 2018, I decided it was time to do something real with this creativity forever burning inside me. Enter voice over. I dipped my toes in the water after watching a webinar with Peter Dickson and Hugh Edwards, two icons of the industry. I was fascinated by being able to produce different and complex emotions with my voice and not just stupid noises like I had done for the previous *cough*ty five years. This seemed like a challenge and I was up for it. And that's the tale of how I got into the voice over business. So here I am, taking my love of storytelling into yet another medium.