Think about it. If you're old enough...how much did you write every day BEFORE social media came along? Not everyone has made the transition to the New Media world with grace. Yet...in a day's time, you (1) text (2) email (3) post on FaceBook (4) post on some other social network and (5) create...
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...
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...
Newspapers hate CraigsList because it DESTROYED their classifieds (and their revenue). Most everyone else loves CraigsList...but as a lead-generating source for voice over jobs? Meh. Like Guru, O-Desk, Elance, and a number of other online freelance job clearinghouses, CraigsList -- at first...
There's all the art and heart and psychology of what you want to bring to the microphone, and then there are the simple mechanics (only sometimes they're not so simple!). 'No shortcuts to the words on the page, especially when those words convey something important to the client... like maybe...
September gives way to October, and before you know it...we're into "cold" season. Respiratory conditions are the bane of voice-actors (and singers, and broadcasters, and speakers, etc) everywhere. You don't have to be a doctor to understand how the human voice is produced. Vocal cords are: ...
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...
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