Category Archives: In the press

Develop Magazine’s Will Freeman at OM London …a new model for talent direction is evolving.

We were featured in the January 2012 issue of Develop Magazine. The article titles  "Direct Action"  scratches the surface of the methods we’ve been developing to empower directors, studios and actors in producing truly subtle, real and connected dialogue for video games.  It is one thing to talk about what we’re doing, but the nicest thing about  the work we’re doing is that results always speak…

Mark is quoted & misquoted in the Big Mouth Guide

It’s good getting the word out about working with actors for video games but the quote of throwing a producer out of the studio for having a laptop is not Mark’s big mouth but a misquote. Game producers with laptops can rest easy! See the full article next month online at Audiomedia.com or go buy the latest issue of Audio Media Magazine from a good newsagent.

Voicing concerns: the problem with video game acting.

Mark Estdale was interviewed along with Side’s Andy Emery and David Sobolov by Keith Stewart for the Guardian Gamesblog.

"Mark Estdale, director at casting and voice recording agency, Outsource Media, has been working for ten years on a system to provide voice over actors with a quick-n-dirty frame of reference for their characterisations.

"What the actor needs is something at the point of performance that they ca…

Develop Magazine Audio Feature

"The more things change …the more they stay the same. Outsource Media UK’s Mark Estdale looks at how the audio scene has changed in the past decade, and how it’s still fighting the same battles now…"

Not quite fighting the same battles but still there are battles to be fought…

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