Are amateur iPhone photographers giving professional photogs
So where does that leave a professional photographer with all the right equipment, training, experience, and freelance chutzpah?
How far does a pro photog have to go to prove their craft, and to find legitimacy for their work in the marketplace?
I use that analogy to point up a growing issue in voice-acting.
No one seems to think voice acting is really that hard, or costly for that matter. Success is only a USB mic and a cheap laptop away.
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Wednesday confronted me with two confirmations of this mindset, and I mean no ill will or discouragements in telling the tales.
#1 is the mostly home-bound wife of an old friend, who is decidedly bored, and wants to be productive. Her husband asks if I couldn’t offer her a few suggestions for how she could get into voice acting at home. For them, money is likely not a problem. Her voice is even
But no way will voice-acting be a career for her at this point in life. She’ll be a hobbyist at best. Will she do some of her work for free? Very likely. Will voice-seekers take advantage of that? Probably.
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#2 is a lovely email from a total stranger who went to great lengths to explain how her reading for the blind, narrating one children’s
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What would you tell either of these newcomers to our business?
I’ve always taken the position that we all start somewhere…that I don’t want to pop anyone’s bubble…that I started with stars in my
And yet, I confess to a fatigue in answering these questions. A part of me wants to shout: “RUN!”. Be a physical therapist, or an engineer, or a coder, or teacher, or a welder. THAT might be easier. You wouldn’t approach ANY of those professions without time, talent, training, and money. Why do people think voice-acting is any less challenging?
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