A gift. Just the other day, Nancy Wolfson handed over a gift we all can use. Something she had prepared for another publication that went unused. "Why waste it?" she said. "Dave, can you put it in your blog?" Ah...gee... I really had to think about that one. Top LA-based voice acting...
My newfound source of insider information -- "JJ" -- calls it Zeitgeist. Of course, that's a word from our Teutonic neighbors that means: "...the general intellectual, moral, and cultural climate of an era..." Ace VO coach and producer Nancy Wolfson would probably call it the author's...
Gerald Griffith is steadily building a city within Atlanta. VoiceOverCity. We here on Voice-Acting in Vegas firmly support enabling the VO community at large, and Gerald hits all the right notes with his VoiceOverCity.com site. Last week, Gerald conducted a lengthy interview with the Rolls Royce...
Admissions with a hush. Producer and Voice Over Coach Nancy Wolfson creates her own original lingo for getting her point across in acting for advertising, and it's spot-on. Admit the obvious, and tinge it with an urgency or a hush. In this 13th and final video excerpt from her HOW TO SOUND REAL...
...when you get to the end of your spoken sentence....without enough steam Obvious? Apparently not, 'cause we've all done an injustice to it. C'mon...admit it. Nancy Wolfson's 11th video tip in a straight series of 13 weeekly video ckips seen here on the old blogeroo makes it clear: Support the...
That's a quote straight from VO Coach and producer Nancy Wolfson in this, her 10th mini-video lesson of our weekly series. The comment deserves some context, for sure, and Wolfson's remarks are designed for the female voice actors having an issue with relaxing the voice...letting go of the...
For Nancy Wolfson's 9th instructional mini-video in our weekly series, you get a real lesson in (men) learning to relax the voice. This is one of the longest of the 13 video tips in the series: HOW TO SOUND REAL AND NAIL THE SALE. What I like about this and all of the Wolfson mini-video lessons is...
So many of us got into this crazy business of voice-acting from the crazy business of radio. Hey, we've been cutting spots for the clients every day in our radio jobs...surely there's better money in this when you're working for yourself, right? There are so many things fundamentally wrong with...
A famous actor is said to have once remarked that "...acting is all about being genuine and true to yourself...once you can fake that, you've got it made..." (generally attributed to Spencer Tracy). Today's Nancy Wolfson mini video lesson about lying struck me almost as hard as the one where she...
By now you must know (expect?) that I'm posting a video tidbit from Voice Over coach and producer Nancy Wolfson this time of the week, every week. Each segment (13 when we're all done) is actually a worthwhile mini-lesson on its own, but begs the greater indulgence for the complete set of 127 tips...