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Many of you know of the close connection this blog has to John Florian's VoiceOverXtra site. I've probably contributed 10 or 12 articles to his site of late. John runs a hi-profile site. VoiceOverXtra gets a lot of traffic, and has a lot of credibility in the Voice Over world. Lately Florian...
Last week was a wash. Literally. I washed up on the shores of Belize, Isla Roatan, and Cozumel on a cruise ship excursion with my family, and two other families for a week. Yeah. Hate that. The picture of me there is on the beach at Passion Island North of Cozumel. 'An afternoon that I kinda...
'Seems like a ridiculous proposition -- sounding like you...but where a voice talent gets waylaid is in reading the directions that accompany the audition script. What's even worse is when the casting director sends along a link to a YouTube video, and they want you to emulate the style of voice...
Rather than wait to post this to my Amplify distribution channel TOMORROW...here I am at 3:15am....doing it now! See? It's already working! But, honestly, who can't benefit from a quick review of tips like this? My favorite is #5...Don't Over-committ. BIG problem left unchecked. Hope you can find...
Working two jobs can drive you crazy. In my case, the drive is revealing. One job is rigid. It has immutable deadlines. The pay is fixed. I work for someone else. They tell me what to do. I MUST get along with others. The other job personifies flexibility, finesse, and self-direction. ...
Michael Minetree is churnin' out the videos these days. I meant to get this particular video posted on my blog before I left for FaffCon. (this is why people ask me "When do you sleep?").Believe me, a week later it still offers plenty about how to eliminate noise in noisy environments as you...
Just give me the word count willya? Give me a word count, and I can pretty much decide a lot of things: time-to-complete-narrration, time-to-complete-editing, my cost, YOUR cost...a lot. And you wouldn't think it would be that hard to get the word count. I mean, just about everybody uses MS Word...
Grats to my social media partner and VO pro Terry Daniel for directing me to the following video posted on his VoiceOver Club site. Fellow Voice Actor Mike Elmore makes an easy-to-follow explanation about watermarking your auditions. Also, be watching for an upcoming podcast on the Voices.com...
My father got kidneystones. I occasionally do too. Yeah, they hurt. But I've managed to reduce their frequency by learning to drink water like a fish. Not cranberry juice, not soda, tea, coffee, milk, or energy drinks. Water. Lucky for me, the upside is I rarely get mouth clicks on my...
Immersion. I've said it before. I don't know how else to go about pursuing my dream in Voice Overs without total immersion. Be, do, say, involve, hear, seek, relate, and otherwise absorb all things related to the field. I made another move in that direction Thursday night in Las Vegas with...
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