For two years or more, I've been beating the drum about the use of pictures; still pictures, moving pictures, pictures on social media, and pictures in your marketing. It's easy for us in the business of audio to overlook the important of video...but it's hot. Red hot. Don't believe video is...
You should audition for every job that fits your wheelhouse. Knowing your wheelhouse is the trick. So...half the jobs are off the slate for me. I'm not a woman, and I don't do female voices. I'll also pass on most of those that ask for a youthful, energetic 20-something. Honestly, I think I can...
Ours is one of the more remarkable freelance business enterprises. It's a little more off-the-beaten-path than, say... freelance photographers or writers or graphic artists. I mean, people have a general idea of what we do...but not really how we do it. It's got real panache. Kinda special, ya...
In the starry voiceover galaxy, there's Los Angeles, and then there's everything else. Don't ask for hard data. I have none. But seriously, can anyone miss this truism? Not even mighty New York City comes close... it's a distant distant second at best. And understandably so. LA is the home of...
Remember that line from the movie Field of Dreams? It wasn't the ever-memorable "...if you build it, they will come..." but the intent of that "distance" statement still ricochets in my head many years later. I find it especially germane to those with voice-over success stars in their eyes....
Sunday I was down. I dislike January, and the start to any new year. As I've explained before, that "fresh slate" doesn't motivate me, it only reminds me of all that remained undone from the year before, and that ALSO does not motivate me. Goal-setting has proven not to be a valuable concept in...
When your speaking apparatus is gunked-up... you can't keep up your VO commitments so well. And Boy Howdy, this is the season for gunking! How many times have I seen anguished posts on social media groups begging anyone for quick-fix solutions that will allow the completion of a project in...
Launching into the world of voice acting is a steep challenge. There are no manuals, but plenty of "opportunities". The opportunities range from legitimate offers of help to outright predation, and everything in between...including the costs involved. As you would approach any other profession,...
...and so begins a new year. I'll be cranking up the blog as usual beginning today...but I gotta say, taking about 10 days off from nearly every grow-up responsibility was SO WONDERFUL!!! January is my toughest month of the year, no doubt. It's dark, cold, gloomy. All those things I didn't get...
The estimate that only 5% of voice actors are truly supporting themselves and their families with strictly voiceover work is probably close to correct. (remember, 47.93% of all numbers quoted online are made-up). Whatever the number (almost impossible to discern), it’s disappointingly low. The...
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