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Believe me, I know this topic has been ballyhooed, broadcast, and blogged-about for years...but apparently it bears repeating. Yesterday, I got an email from a respected voice over training studio in NYC warning again of the actions of scammy demo mills taking money from unsuspecting and eager...
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...
The month of May is gone, and I'm still trying to figure out where February went. June brings with it the VOICE2012 Conference. There's still time to sign-up, BTW, although travel costs are starting to get expensive at this late juncture. During the event, I'll be presenting on the finer points...
...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...
Time and time again I disavow being an expert on ANYTHING. I'm just uncomfortable with it. Maybe...maybe I'm an expert on me...and that's about it. I prefer to say I'm a student. I'm certainly a student of life and people and relationships. I have been for 59 years now. But when people call...
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...
You're there...standing right in front of it, and it appears immovable. There's no way around it, and no way over it. Chances are you yourself have created the wall, so it's insidiously well-designed to foil any attempts to find a weakness. You know yourself too well. It's the agent (or agents)...
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 30-year TV career, and I was never exposed to the concept of a StoryBoard until I started dabbling in Voice Overs. In TV News there's no time for the luxury of conceptualizing your perfect pictures first. You just use the available pics you're given...and write the story as best you can in a...
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