Best Series in the UK! (Web Fest…)
Woah check this out guys – on Saturday we won Best UK Series at the UK Web Fest! Not bad eh? “Award winning web series”… I like the sound of that.
Recycle Week
So I know you much prefer it when you can hear my voice but not see my face, so here’s the #RecycleWeek #UnusualSuspects videos that came out this week. I’m doing the voice of the detective on the phone, and the main VOs at the end. They’ve got Ewen McIntosh (Keith from The Office) in them. Watch all 4 episodes right here!
RKVP at Raindance 2016
So yesterday they announced the Raindance Webfest 2016 programme. Now we knew that Rich Keeble Vanity Project had been selected, and would be screened at the festival which was all very exciting – we’d been told to keep it quiet until the official announcement of course. My previous series All in the Method had been an official selection back in 2013, and the whole experience was rather nice, seeing it up there on the big screen, chatting to some lovely people. What we didn’t realise was that we’d been nominated for Best UK Web series with only 4 other shows! Wow! And the other shows look like they had a budget! Jeez! So that’s us rather smugly enjoying a free drink at the festival launch party at JuJu in Chelsea last night. What we then found out… after Edd was casually looking at the programme on his phone, was that we’ve also been nominated for BEST WRITING! Un-be-fucking-lievable! I’d actually be very surprised if we won either category, but we’re genuinely over the moon to be nominated, and it’s certainly gonna be a fun festival. You can hear Johnny McDaid from Snow Patrol saying our (my) name at about 10:44 in this video.
On the RKVP subject, the British Comedy Guide have been very good to us, and featured us in this interview. I’m also over the moon that Chortle mentioned us without slagging us off!
Beastly goings on
Back in March I did some voice work for the new Total War: Warhammer video game. The game came out in May but the voices I did were for the Beastmen DLC (downloadable content as I learned) which came out on July 28th. The reason I’m only posting this now is that A) I signed an NDA, and B) I got a bit behind with posting stuff because of the baby (see last post!). Funnily enough I was due to work on another big video game on that very release date (July 28th), but my girlfriend went into labour 2 weeks before the due date so we had to reschedule! Oh well. I’ll tell you more about that game when that’s all out there!
In the meantime, that’s the Beastmen trailer right there. To be honest, I have no idea if any of my voice is in there (apart from the obvious, it is pitched down), and I’ll probably to struggle to identify myself in any uploaded gameplayso if anyone does find any gameplay on Youtube, pitches up a Beastman voice and thinks it’s me, do let me know!
We had a baby
hi guys. So we had a baby. Thanks for everyone’s messages and kind words so far. If you weren’t aware, partly due to a decision not to put photos of our daughter on the internet (as we don’t know whether these babies born in the internet age will be annoyed with us in years to come etc, as well as her own safety) but largely to amuse myself, I’ve been only posting photos of her where I’ve deliberately obscured her face. Hilarious huh?
Series 2 Episode 1 released!
So here’s Episode 1 of the new series! Very exciting I’m sure you’ll agree. Stay tuned for weekly episodes released every Monday! All that’s left to see is how my friendship with Sam and Edd will recover from the various stresses of getting to this point.
Rich Keeble Vanity Project Series 2 Trailer
So after some very late nights and strained emotions, we were in a position to say that all 6 episodes of Series 2 of Rich Keeble Vanity Project were picture locked with grade and sound mixing to follow. Prior to that moment of (temporary) relief however, we optimistically released the above trailer which has a release date of 4th July on it. So we have to stick to it! You hear me? 4th July. Watch this space! (please)
The Love Island Instamafilter
When it comes to selfies, natural just isn’t good enough on #LoveIsland! 📷📷📷@LoveIsland, coming soon to @ITV2.https://t.co/Ckhe9yPRo4
— ITV2 (@itv2) May 17, 2016
And here’s the other ad I voiced. I prefer this one actually. No idea why they didn’t ask me to be the guy.
The Love Island Small Talkulator
Islanders need to have every weapon in their arsenal on the hunt for love! @LoveIsland #LoveIslandhttps://t.co/lSsmUvo0Vm
— ITV2 (@itv2) May 16, 2016
So here’s the first online advert for Love Island that I recorded for ITV the other week. You’d never guess that I did the main VO and the voice of the Small Talkulator itself would you?!
Cocking about with a car for a corporate
Here’s me playing an inspector for a corporate video for a car leasing company in sunny Birmingham. As you can see I am pointing to a part of the car. I believe it’s called the “bonnet”.
RKVP Series 2 wrapped
Very exciting news guys – we’ve now filmed the final episode of Series 2 of Rich Keeble Vanity Project. Enjoyed some great work from actress EJ Martin who had to endure me in some rather compromising positions. We’re looking at getting something out there in June. Don’t forget to check out Series on Youtube if you haven’t already (and subscribe!) and check out the Facebook for updates and some exclusive stills!
Love Island
Here’s me being very professional and taking a photograph of myself in ITV studios today, having just recorded some VO for some comedy online adverts for the new series of Love Island. Probably can’t say much more than that at the moment but don’t you worry, I won’t shut up about it once they’re out there.
Animal Antics
Here’s me talking to director Nick Mavroidakis about some clips of animals doing things. You see, I’d prepared some “funny” things to “say”. It’s for a TV show called Animal Antics which should hopefully be out later in the year.
Doubleshot VOs
I know I’ve posted a lot of stuff about Doubleshot this year but I did do a load of stuff for them! The last two videos I did for them, which were actually quick little voiceovers, are now released here! I’m sure it’s just a coincidence that the guy in the videos is bald.
What’s commuting got to do with video production? Watch this video on the fly. #videomarketing #animation pic.twitter.com/7AULlU2wk2
— Doubleshot.tv (@DoubleshotTV) March 8, 2016
When all you want in life is a marketing video and some cucumber maki… #Sushi #animation #videomarketing pic.twitter.com/mKbIUQmx2r
— Doubleshot.tv (@DoubleshotTV) March 11, 2016
Vanity Project Series 2
Exciting times, guys. Last week I did some voice work for some downloadable content for the new Total War: Warhammer video game. But even more exciting that than – we are well into the editing phase of Series 2 of Rich Keeble Vanity Project. It’s a little different from the first series with its deliberately low production values and anti-comedy stylings. This series is mockumentary style and follows me as I try to raise my profile by various disastrous means, including driving around shouting at random passers by through a megaphone (as illustrated in the above photo rather beautifully next to a place called The Ginger Pig), in the hope I can get another series of my show. Expertly shot by an experienced TV camera operator friend of mine (Casualty, Doctors, Death in Paradise) and again featuring Producer Sam, it’s more improvised, self-degrading antics that I think is actually going to turn out rather well! Watch this space!
Doubleshot Tripleshot
So here are those Doubleshot videos – the first 2 are less than a minute and embedded from Twitter, the last one is the main video from the Doubleshot website which is embedded from Facebook. I think they’re pretty good!
Have you heard of us yet? Visit our website to learn more about #videomarketinghttps://t.co/5P7VMfotZD — Doubleshot.tv (@DoubleshotTV) February 18, 2016
Making a video with us is a smooth operation…https://t.co/hVZhLyAfvl
— Doubleshot.tv (@DoubleshotTV) February 17, 2016
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My Third Shot of Doubleshot
Last year I did a couple of training films for a company called Doubleshot. One was actually an interactive training computer game thing for Zurich, where I played a comic narrator character who would introduce the scenes and get caught up in the action, and the other was for Retracare where I played another comic character in the form of a store manager being interviewed at work about his own training techniques. Now Doubleshot have kindly asked me to star in some commercials advertising their own services. If you visit doubleshot.tv then you will see the main video on the front page with the handsome gentleman in that screen shot above. I also shot another couple of little clips that will be appearing at some point on social media, and did VO for a couple of animations. They’re also very nice people!
My Carr… trick… (hat trick)
Check it out guys! I was in my third Alan Carr’s New Year Specstacular last week. That’s me on a date with Nicole Scherzinger (Alan) right there. You can watch it on 4OD of course. The segment I’m in is after about 48:35 and my main bit is a couple of mins in. Great working with Alan again (he seems to remember me) and director Tommy Forbes. Insider info – just before I stand up I did have a line “I’m going for a shit” which they cut…
Xmas Noise
Hey, you know that gig I mentioned a couple of blog posts back? Well here it is. We played 11 songs (actually surprisingly well) and what’s not to like about a sweaty man in his 30s playing drums in a Xmas jumper? (Great drum fills after around 39:40! ha!)
Setlist:
1. One of Five a Day
2. Valentine
3. Cosmonaut (At the Drive In Cover)
4. Song 1 (Gang of Jealous Pistols)
5. A Wing & A Prayer
6. Vitiminium
7. Do What You Want
8. Settle
9. He Giveth (MeccaMen)
10. Broken English
11. Paint Your Own
Rules of Life… finally!
Now this is an interesting one. Sorry, “interesting”. About 5 years ago, I got brought in to try out for the lead in a comedy pilot called Rules of Life. Obviously I’m amazing so I got it (I don’t think they saw that many people for it) and we filmed a 30 minute pilot over a number of weekends. Those weekends were actually spread over about a year as I recall, and we finally wrapped in late 2011. Once it was edited Steve Whyley, the writer, spent considerable efforts in getting people interested. He got Catherine Bailey (Quick Cuts, Life of Riley) on board who helped him re-write the scripts for the whole series, and pitched it to the BBC and Comedy Central. Sadly it didn’t get picked up, but I always remembered particular bits of that pilot being pretty good, and it was close to my heart as one of the first major roles I’d done in something, as well as having met great people during the filming who I still keep in contact with and have worked with since like Jenny Gayner and Pete Halpin (although he posts so many photos of his baby now I might remove him from FB) so I mentioned to Steve that maybe it could be edited into a web series? Long story short… Martin the editor couldn’t seem to find the original footage so I ended up re-editing it myself in Windows Movie Maker using an MP4 version of the pilot I had. It’s the software I use for my show reel so how hard can it be? Pretty fucking hard as it turns out as it’s not really designed for that, but anyway, I managed to pull together 4 episodes from the pilot of around 3 minutes each by quickening up the edit, cutting anything that we could lose for time, re-recording a bit of VO, adding new theme music and credits to fit in with the original animation (that used a song we didn’t have permission for) and there you go. There was stuff I had no control over due to only having the exported edit but I think it’s OK. I’ve still got a 5th episode to finish but Episodes 1 to 4 are available to view right now using the embedded playlist above! I know, I look young. I just said it was filmed 5 years ago didn’t I. Please check it out anyway! I think we’re looking to film more in the new year, and bring Stan back from the dead.