I like to tell people that the “work” part of the voice over business is getting the work. Doing the work is play time. Unless the script is horrible and the director odious, but that’s not very often. So how much of our time should we spend marketing ourselves as voice actors? Business author and [...]
During my time in the voiceover business I’ve been witness to many different styles of acting before the microphone. I’ve seen actors silently but not so subtley move their entire bodies while doing the read. And I’ve seen the flat dry monotone read done while the actor stands stiff as a statue with hands crammed [...]
There are many genres of work for the voice actor. One of them is voicing promos for TV at the local station level. The “Here’s what’s coming up tonight on CBS 11″ kind of thing. What sort of voice actor does well at this? Producer Robert Dwyer has a few thoughts: “You want to be [...]
ISDN may seem like old technology but it just flat works real well for the voice actor and those who employ him. ISDN lines and hardware/software codecs allow for CD quality voice transmission in real time between studios around the globe. Think of it as a microphone with a really really long cord. Voice actor [...]
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