What’s New With PETER K.O’CONNELL Fall 2019 is part of a series in which MVO: The Voice-Over Guys checks-in with one of our male voiceover talents to learn more about a recent media project he has voiced. Here’s what Peter shared with us.
1. You mentioned a really cool voiceover project in your recent MVO: The Voiceover Guys update. Can you talk about who the project was for and where it was heard or seen?
The DELTA program (Distance Education and Learning Technology Applications) at North Carolina State University recent produced a new explainer video and they asked me to be their narrator.
2. What made the media production’s content interesting from your perspective?
My family and I moved from Buffalo, NY to Cary, NC (just outside of Raleigh, NC) about 3 years ago but it became clear to us almost immediately how important NC State is to the area. It’s important to North Carolina as well because it is the state’s largest university. So knowing all that and then being requested by NC State to narrate something for them felt pretty cool…it made me feel a bit more like a local.
3. As the voice talent in the media project, were there any technical or performance challenges during this voiceover recording session?
This recording session was especially fun because I got to go to another studio. So I show up, voice the script, make the client happy with the read and go home. Easy peasy!
4. Is there anything else you would like us to know about this voiceover project?
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ABOUT MALE VOICEOVER TALENT PETER K. O’CONNELL
I found my life’s calling when I was in KINDERGARTEN.
In my hometown of Buffalo, NY, our saintly teacher, Sister Donna Marie, took our class on a field trip to radio station WEBR-AM.
Quick as a lightning bolt, the minute I walked into that radio station control room (pictured) …everything changed for me.
Everything.
I’m not sure how many 5-year old children experience epiphanies but standing in that radio studio in 1969, I knew instantly my life would always include a microphone.
My broadcasting obsession was probably genetic. My Father was State Oratory Champion in high school and my Mother had long wanted to work in broadcasting at a time when women didn’t really do that.
When I was a junior, I secured my high school’s first-ever radio station internship. In college, I worked at a 50,000-watt radio station in Dayton, OH where I had the #1 rated show on Saturday nights. I was promoted to Commercial Production Manager there because clients really liked my voice and commercial production work. Because of my humor, personality and improvisational skills, I was also a popular client choice for live event announcing. That’s all still true but now I also voice narrations and broadcast promos too.
We O’Connell’s happily live in Raleigh, North Carolina, where I’ve built my state of the art voiceover studio for clients like General Electric, Kraft Foods and Duracell Batteries as well as hundreds of great regional and local brands too.
How can I help you?
Let me know how my immense experience and love of voiceover can help make your next media project sound amazing! Thanks.