My friend DB Cooper is one of the very best video game voice actors. (She’s also very good at all kinds of voice actory things, but this blog post isn’t about those things.) She’s going to be teaching a class on doing exertion sounds for video games and ADR on coming up soon. Details will be announced as soon as they become available.
(edited to change details that are not yet fully finalized.)
My friend Charlie Glaize is one of my voiceover mentors. He’s also a little … uh … strange, which is why I like him so much.
Dan O’Day has just released a new 2-hour and 36-minutes audio seminar from Harlan Hogan in MP3 format called Advanced Voiceover Career Strategies. Winning an audition is a wonderful experience, but building a winning career over the long haul is even better. Harlan Hogan is a voice actor who has done just that and in this MP3 audio seminar, available for instant download from Dan O’Day, Harlan will share with you a ton of the key reasons he’s built and sustained that winning career. Click through to place your order and instantly download this MP3 audio seminar from Harlan Hogan, Advanced Voiceover Career Strategies.
Four times a year I get to provide the narration and production for a series of podcasts for the Austrian Embassy in Washington, DC and their Office of Science and Technology. The podcasts are based on the “bridges” online magazine. The latest edition has just recently been released.
Here is a video featuring part of the narration a did for an audiobook that’s just been released by Oasis Audio.
As you can probably tell, this is the audiobook version of Daily Hope for Hurting Hearts by Greg Laurie.
My friends Pam Tierney and Maritza Cabrera have released Episode four of their webisode series Mags n Mel. The earlier episodes are there on the same page, so you can enjoy all of the releases in order if you like.
I think it’s a bunch of fun, but then I think both Maritza and Pam are very talented ladies.
My friend Doug Medlock is featured as the narrator of this video.
Loadtoast from Doug Medlock on Vimeo.
Mighty nice work, Doug.
The early registration discount for Faffcon 3 ends today. If you’re a working voiceover professional (in other words, you’re making money doing voiceover work, even if it’s not full-time yet), you are welcome and encouraged to join a bunch of us (your peers) in Harrisburg/Hershey, PA September 23rd through the 25. Please join us. Registration is simple.
In all the years I’ve attended the International Radio Creative and Production Summit (this year will be my 15th in a row), one of my favorite parts has been the times when Christine Coyle, long time Creative Director for Dick Orkin at the Famous Radio Ranch, directed us in voiceover performances.
Chris is such a brilliant director and really knows how to draw superb performances from voiceover talent. She is arguably the world’s most successful director of radio commercials.
Click HERE to download a 2-hour audio seminar featuring Christine Coyle called BACKSTORY GOLD.
My friend Jane Ingalls emailed me a link to an excellent article on breathing at eHow. Jane and I share a common background in musical training, though she’s done far more with hers than I have with mine.
The early registration discount for Faffcon 3 ends in 4 days, 5 hours and 15 minutes as I’m writing this note this evening. If you’re a working voiceover professional (in other words, you’re making money doing voiceover work, even if it’s not full-time yet), you are welcome and encouraged to join a bunch of us (your peers) in Harrisburg/Hershey, PA September 23rd through the 25. Registration is simple. Please don’t miss this amazing experience.
A few days ago I did the narration for this short video for Crossway Publishing.
ESV Student Study Bible from Crossway on Vimeo.
I’m not a fisherman. I confess this even though I know it may offend you. It’s not that I want to offend, I’m just trying to clarify that even though I’m using a fishing analogy in the title of today’s post, this analogy doesn’t come from some deep pool of fishing experience. (pun intended there) It’s just a handy analogy.
I do have a younger brother who loves to fish and I’ve even gone fishing with him a few times; but that scant bit of experience hardly qualifies me as a fisherman. Oh, and to run just a little further down this bunny trail, since I’m the oldest of my siblings, all of my brothers are younger brothers.
OK. Back to the point now.
From both my scant experience and from observation I know that if you want to be successful at fishing, you have to fish where the fish are. Having grown up in Minnesota where you can throw a stone in any general direction and hit a lake, it doesn’t work to just pull up to a random lake, pull out your fishing gear and drop in a line. Some lakes don’t have any fish in them. So, you can fish there as long as you like, you won’t catch any fish.
While I do refer voiceover work (sometimes) to over voiceover people, and thankfully receive referrals for voiceover work from other voiceover people from time to time; the majority of my work doesn’t come via that route. The majority of yours won’t either.
As usual, Seth Godin makes this point much more eloquently than I do, in this case in a post at the blog at his new publishing venture called The Domino Project. If you haven’t yet checked out The Domino Project, you really should.
And good fishing!
Seth Godin, a very bright man, has started a new venture called The Domino Project. The newest release is called Anything You Want by Derek Sivers, the brains behind CD Baby. Derek is creating animated videos to illustrate some of the key points of his new book. This one is called If It’s Not a Hit, Switch.
If it’s not a hit, switch from Derek Sivers on Vimeo.
I don’t know if Derek realizes he was aiming this one at voiceover people or not, but wow does that hit the mark.
With thanks to my friend James Lorenz who posted about this first, you’ll find a superb interview with Tom Kane at Alibi.
For some time now, when people have asked me how I like working in voiceover full time my reply has been “It’s a lot better than working for a living.” Now, in truth there is “work” involved in voiceover. Meeting deadlines. Exceeding expectations. Delivering the performance people are looking for. These things don’t happen by accident. It does take concentration, effort, persistence and experience to deliver the goods in the studio. And to deliver the audio in the requested format. And so forth and so on.
But, having grown up on a farm in central Minnesota, I can tell you that voiceover is nothing like what I knew as “working for a living” as I was growing. Stacking bales of hay, shoveling grain, and especially mucking out the barn after the milk cows where finished. That was real work.
Today, I’ve spent a few hours mucking out the blogroll here at the Voiceover Boblog. It was beginning to stink to high heaven frankly. Broken links. A couple of links leading to hacked sites filled with malware. Good grief. I’ve neglected the blogroll for far too long. But as of today, I’ve personally tested every link. Later today there might be new problems but for now, everything in the blogroll should lead where it’s supposed to lead.
Now, it’s time to get back to the audiobook I’m just about to finish, and get started on the pick-ups for the other audiobook that’s due in a couple of weeks.
Marice Tobias is going to be in Portland, OR in July 2011.
As far as I know, this is Marice’s only visit to the Pacific Northwest this year.
My friends Pam Tierney and Maritza Cabrera have released Episode three of their webisode series Mags n Mel. The earlier episodes are there on the same page, so you can enjoy all of the releases in order if you like.
