Outsource Media’s Mark Estdale talks about bad cheese!

Outsource Media’s Mark Estdale
talks about bad cheese!

LONDON, UK. Outsource Media would
like to announce that Mark Estdale (CEO, Outsource Media) will be speaking at
the 2004 European Developers Forum on production values and the voice in games.

The forum is called No More Cheese –
Speech for Games and is taking place on Thursday 2nd September at 5pm. The
topics he will be covering will include writing, casting, recording and
post-production of dialogue for games. Why has speech in games historically been
so poor, and what’s today’s best practice when it comes to believable dialogue?

Mark Estdale (CEO, Outsource Media)
said

“If another game producer comes to
me with a script written by a programmer I’ll tear his head off and shout down
the bloody hole. Occasionally programmers show genius but on the whole script
writing needs script writers. Hollywood bins about 40,000 scripts a year and
makes money on about 5. There’s good reason for this and it isn’t just the
script.”

Outsource Media are recognized as
the interactive entertainment industry’s leading voice Production Company, this
year alone they have been nominated for the 2004 Develop Industry Excellence
Award for Services and Outsourcing, their productions were nominated for 10
BAFTA Games Awards 2004 and two of their titles – TimeSplitters 2 and Conflict
Desert Storm – were on the shortlist for the BAFTA Sunday Times’ Readers Award.

Outsource Media have most recently
produced voices for: TimeSplitters: Future Perfect, Conflict Vietnam, Who Wants
to be a Millionaire, Juiced, Powerdrome, Second Sight, Formula One 2004 and
Broken Sword: The Sleeping Dragon.

European Developers’ Forum: The
Interactive Entertainment Conference will take place at ExCeL, London from
September 1st – 3rd 2004. Launched by Tiga, The Independent Games Developers’
Association, this exciting new conference will run alongside ELSPA’s industry
backed high-profile trade show European Games Network and the ground-breaking
consumer show Game Stars Live.



http://www.europeandevelopersforum.com/detailedProgramme.shtml
 

About Outsource Media

Formed in 1996, Outsource Media
specialises in voice production, Quality Assurance (QA) and localisation with
studio facilities in Sheffield, London and Los Angeles.

These services are tailored for the
videogame industry but extend to TV, movie, radio and advertising. Outsource
prides itself on a quality guarantee based on delivery, facilities, experience
and creativity.

Outsource boasts an impressive range
of clients including Electronic Arts, Sony, Acclaim THQ International, SCI,
Blitz, Zoo Digital and Sony Pictures.

Titles include: Conflict Desert
Storm II, The Great Escape, Formula 1 2002/3, Destruction Derby Arenas, Lord of
the Rings, Timesplitters 2, Conflict Desert Storm, Yager, Drakan II, X-Beyond
the Frontier, Wipeout Fusion, Stewart Little 2, Ballerburg, Independence War II
– Edge of Chaos…