Voice-Over Community Rally’s Together to Help Fellow Voice Actor

Voice Actors On Voicebank.net Doing Webinar Fundraiser to Help Fellow Voice Actor When I saw this article all I could think was I hope I can help bring awareness  and help by sharing this! Originally posted by voiceovertimes.com The 2013 Audiobook Gold Rush webinar Calgary based voice-over actress Nicole Nielson has been diagnosed with an incurable condition called Parry Rombergs Syndrome. Only...

How to Get into Voiceover Part 3

Tom Dherre Interview Success with Audiobooks Part Three     Question – Why did you want to do Audiobooks? Question – How do you prepare for Audiobook Production? Question – How do you Prepare to Portray the Character Roles? Question – Can you share VO techniques for Audiobooks?   5.5.2013 – Today is the last day of camp….. the first Faff Camp is almost...

How to Get into Voiceover Part 1

How to be a Voice Over Actor Part One Question – What is the Greatest Challenge in Voiceover? Question – What Makes a Satisfying Voiceover Career? 5.1.13 – With Faff Camp: the Hire Education Conference for Voiceover Professionals begins this Friday.  Voicebank.net and voiceregistry  are key sponsors of the event and want to offer some great information that faffers from past faffCon...

ATTENTION STORY-MINDED FOLKS!

Workshop Your Stories and Receive Instructor Critiques Story Fancier: The authors of the book, INVITING THE WOLF IN – THINKING ABOUT DIFFICULT STORIES, Elizabeth Ellis & Loren Niemi, are coming to Los Angeles to lead The Difficult Stories Workshop, Friday evening January 20th through Sunday January 22nd, 2012. Aleka and I will both be taking the workshop. Elizabeth Ellis & Loren Niemi are...

Myths, Mistakes, and Making It in Voiceover

It’s true every facet of the entertainment business has its share of myths-from Lana Turner’s discovery at Schwab’s Drugstore to recent sightings of Elvis. And the voiceover industry is no different. Here are a few: 1. Four or five actors do all the VO gigs. Not quite. There is greater variety than ever. With a renewed interest in real voices, more and more actors are getting a shot. 2....

Dialects, Accents and Voiceover

In tomorrow’s podcast interview with Amy Stoller (part 2) she talks about: -Authentic accents vs. character accents -When is an authentic accent required? -When is a character accent okay? (a “good enough accent”) -Do accents need to be perfect for audio books? -What are the current trends with accents and audio book narration? And much more… -Tracy Pattin var hs_portalid=78808; var...

NPR Interview with Audio Book Voice Talent, Martin Jarvis & Neil Sedaris

Check out the Bob Souer blog. Bob talks about the audio book interview on NPR with Martin Jarvis and David Sedaris. NPR’s Neil Gaiman “ponders the future of audio books.” Jarvis and Sedaris discuss the process of recording them. -Tracy Pattin var hs_portalid=78808; var hs_salog_version = "2.00"; var hs_ppa = "voicebank1.app7.hubspot.com"; document.write(unescape("%3Cscript src='"...

Voice Over Resume? The Consensus, YOUR Comments

Last week I wrote a post called, “Creating The Voice Over Resume…Is There a Right Way and a Wrong Way?” Thanks everyone for weighing on this! Seems that the consensus is neither! You mostly felt that the voice over resume is unnecessary as our real calling card is of course, the ubiquitous and all important Voice Over demo. Besides how often does a producer care about what you’ve...

Voice Registry Podcast-Tracy Pattin Talks To Top Audio Book Narrator, Scott Brick (part 4)

Actor, screenwriter and audiobook narrator, Scott Brick definitely gives new meaning to a hyphenate career with credits in film, television, stage and radio. In 2000, Brick ventured into narrating audiobooks and quickly found himself embraced by the audio world. To date he’s won over 40 Earphones Awards for his narrating skills, as well as the 2003 Audie Award for DUNE: THE BUTLERIAN JIHAD....