voiceregistry Weekend Workout Guest Listener Debora Duckett!
July 11, 2012 by: ColleenRead & Learn from Debora Duckett
Talent Agent & Owner of db Talent Austin, TX
Bio:
Debora Duckett is the owner of dB Talent, a talent agency specializing in voice over. She has been the leading expert in her field since 1979 working with international, national and regional advertisers, producers and politicians. She represents voice actors around the country. dB Talent has won the Austin Advertising Federation’s Big Wig Award 9 times since it’s inception 14 years ago. She is also a freelance audio producer and enjoys projects that require lots of music and sound effects. In addition, she is a past audio engineer and has a studio both at home and at the office. She herself is a past talent acting in plays, film, commercials and voiceover.
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Thanks a lot for your feedback, Debora, I’ll definitely trim my slate down to name-only in the future. Yes, I do book a great deal of work on video games and other character driven projects. If you’re interested, please feel free to check out my reels and resume at KyleMcCarley.com. Thanks again!
I wouldn’t call this woman’s critiques “constructive”, as she practically insulted everybody! She disliked or hated *everybody’s* readings—except ONE—and she even suggested that some us who submitted readings should get acting lessons. Now THAT’S insulting. And she constantly repeated over and over and over again the *exact same* insulting remarks. I was laughing at her comments all the way down the page, I really was. Too funny!
I don’t mind criticism, and I do expect to get some in the Weekend Workouts I participate in, but criticism should be constructive and rational, not insulting and rude.
Highly critical remarks may hurt, but they can be very helpful if you can get past the pain. If you lack the thick skin you’ve got to have to make it in this business, some of Debora’s feedback may have come off as insulting. But I’m certain that was not her intention, she was simply being honest, if brutally so. And if the same feedback applies to more than one person, why wouldn’t she repeat herself? Obviously, her comments are her own opinions, so you don’t have to take them as gospel. But she is a professional from a respected agency with more experience than I’d venture to guess any of the VOs who participate in the Weekend Workout, so I’m pretty sure she knows what she’s talking about.
I, for one, am glad she was so thorough with her feedback. Many of the guest directors we get keep their comments so short, I don’t get much from them. Debora was thoughtful enough to give us each a good three or four sentences per piece, and willing to do so for as many as three different pieces from each person. This was my favorite Weekend Workout to date.