Rejected for age
Hello,
Hello, I’m a 36 years old adult and was recently rejected for a contest over age. I have had other projects approved for the “middle aged” age category. The reference videos (variety of different aged/sounding news anchors) with the client instructions did not say anything about making myself sound older.
Also, will this affect my stats?
Thank you!
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Here is a link to the project:
https://bunnystudio.com/voice/projects/#/timeline/7037FAC8DA8F587667F2?version=default
The short answer is these people hire they QA people from all over the world. People who don't even speak English as their first language, yet they're sitting there in judgement of our work! It's an absolute disgrace.
Hi Abraham.
Thanks for reaching out!
I was checking the project and getting some second opinions with the rest of the QC team and we do believe that your voice leans more towards the "Young adult" category, especially since the sample selected on that project does convey an older, deeper voice, which was the cause of the rejection. After careful consideration, we have removed the rejection from your stats, but for Backup contests, we do recommend checking the sample selected since it is a great example to see what the client might be expecting since the sample is taken from the original Pro that had the original booking which, if it took to long to complete or was declined by the Pro, caused that Backup project to be created.
Regarding the comment from Brett, I ask you to please be respectful of our team, we have a diverse and multicultural team which we are proud of, and we are always respectful and open to help anyone improve their quality, or help with any issues that might arise.
Let me know if I can help with anything else!
Kind regards,
Daniel
Hi Daniel!
Thank you for getting back to me.
That does not quite answer the question: why have I been approved for other middle age adult roles? I also won a contest that was in the middle age adult category.
And, in the clients additional instructions, the client explicitly said the preferred sample was to be ignored (quoted, “so please ignore the 'preferred sample' with this brief”). Also, they never said they wanted a deep mature voice; newsanchors have all sorts of voices, as represented in the reference videos the client attached. So that’s tricky and a little confusing.
I appreciate all the work you guys do and thank you for getting back to me.
HI Abraham!
Thanks for the extra info!
Let me explain a bit more why the rejection was done through the explanation on how backup projects are created:
A backup project is created automatically when a booking is not fulfilled or is taking a long time to be fulfilled. The backup project takes all the settings from the original project with one exception: The sample. When a backup project is created, it takes a random sample from the Pro's profile, this is done in order to have a baseline for the auditions for the project, meaning that our QC team has to make sure that the voices that we are sending as backups match as best as they can the tone and sound of the original voice requested by the client since the client didn't create a contest, the client created a booking for a specific Pro.
This means that samples are super important on backup projects for the same reason, that we are aiming at fulfilling the client's expectations with a voice as similar to the original talent as possible.
Your voice does work on that category, which explains the other submissions, and that is why our team decided to ignore the rejection from your stats! Since if there were specific quality issues or a complete difference between your voice and the project requirements, we wouldn't be able to ignore the rejection.
The client's instruction, in this case, refers to the original booking's sample and was a specific instruction for the original Pro, but receiving a voice that is far from the original Pro's tone could cause a rejection from the client's end, which is why our team has to review similarities with the sample in backup projects. This is extremely important since, if the client wasn't looking for a specific type of voice, they would have created a normal contest instead of a booking for that original project.
I hope that info helped a bit more, and let me know if you have any other questions!
Kind regards,
Daniel
I have no issue with your “multi cultural” team. I have an issue with you purporting them to be professionals and sitting in judgement of of us when they themselves are not qualified or skilled enough to. You have people who don’t speak English as their first language judging professional VO artists and telling us our age or accent isn’t right based on no mthing more than their own opinion. It’s not right, and you need to change this.
And Daniel, how is it you had so much time free to write such a lengthy answer to guys post yet haven’t even given me the courtesy to reply to mine! You sit there like a keyboard warrior demanding respect for you staff but you don’t offer the same to the people who make you whole system run - the freelancers. Maybe it’s time you showed more respect to us hey!
Hi Brett!
Sorry, I didn't see your separate post before, I just answered your questions there.
On the other hand, rest assured that all of our QC agents are audio producers with lots of experience in diverse fields, and each and every one of them is completely qualified for the position, else our team would have never considered their profiles in the first place.
Let us know if you have any other questions!
Kind regards,
Daniel