My friend Peter O’Connell, better known in the voiceover business as audio’connell, (a really talented man as you can hear from his demos here); has been blogging about voiceover for a while. His post from yesterday is well worth a few minutes of your time. (Look for Saturday, January 13, 2007 if you’re reading this some time later. I can’t like directly to his post as Peter doesn’t have permalinks enabled on his blog.)
Here’s just one reason why, his very apt metaphor about voiceover and golf…
Often times people say to me “Why do you talk about other voice over talents?” or inquiry as to why I would reference them on my voice over site. The answer is simple and I suppose I should trademark it right here and now as I’ve used it for years: voice over talents are like golfers. Golfers aren’t truly competing against each other, they are really trying to beat the course.
Well said, Peter. And I couldn’t agree more. The voiceover business isn’t about competition, it’s about delivering the sound or style or pace or something for which the producer or writer or casting agent is searching.