The production of Radio and TV commercials forms the backbone of the voiceover industry. While commercials no longer define the scope of opportunities for voice actors, the medium offers some of the biggest challenges, and best compensation rates for us.As such, the genre is huge...creating a...
When you start out in voice-over work...what's the first demo you put together? Commercial, right? We all kinda want that to be our bread 'n' butter. It doesn't always work out that way...but that seems to be most everyone's hope.So, little wonder that WoVOChats would eventually touch on...
Some voice-actors put audiobook narration at the center of their business. The rest just shake their heads, and are often known to say: "...I just don't know how they do it!..."You could say that about eLearning, and technical/medical narrations, and radio imaging too, but for some reason we all...
Aren't these fun? You could almost forget that a great deal of valuable info is exchanged in the WoVOChats, because there's so much... well.... CHATTING going on.Today's session covered acres of territory on the subject of VO coaching, and brought the added dimension of perceived differences in...
'Bottom line about the back 'n' forth on the pages of this blog in the last week as it regards questionable VO coaching practices is that positive progress is being made in a spirit of respect. Watch for more soon.You...me... any one of us have the right to speak out about things we see in our...
To recap: 1) Last week I called to task a certain hi-profile VO coaching school for utilizing a series of increasingly rude autoresponder emails to coerce wannabe VO talent to sign-up for their program. [WHEN DOES AN OFFER BECOME OFFENSIVE?] 2) I followed up the next day with some suggestions...
Hoo Boy! If you missed THIS chat, you missed a good one! Or rather, those who attended missed out on your awesome input! :)Either way, and thanks to the digital gods, nothing is lost in the ether. In fact, that was one of the points of today's chat: NOTHING ever really disappears on the...
Questions that have no answers...only, we're going to try. On today's #WoVOChat we're going to really try to dissect the repercussions of your social media presence on your business...good AND bad.Monitoring such things can be tough. Keeping metrics on forum threads and personal impressions gets...
Talk about great sharing! Today's WoVOChat on the topic of portable recording has info you just gotta see. Luckily, the conversation is not there 'n' gone, but saved in a stream-of-consciousness on Storify.Our guests Brad Venable and Liz de Nesnera were awesome contributors. Their collective...
Voice Actors swear by this rule of thumb: Business can be as slow as molasses, until you decide to take a few days off, away from home, then clients are bugging you with big projects and tight deadlines!Maybe that's why we all stress over having a portable recording solution packed up and ready...