My friend John Florian wrote me the other day asking if he could publish some of what I’d written here on his VoiceOverXtra site. I was of course happy to say “yes.”
If you’re not a subscriber at VoiceOverXtra, and you are serious about pursing voiceover work, think about it seriously. The price is certainly right. (It’s free!) And there’s loads of good information.
James Alburger and Penny Abshire will present a 3 day Voiceover Masters Class October 10 – 12, 2008 in Hartford, CT. Full details and registration information is available here, at my friend Anthony Piselli’s site.
Pat Fraley presents The Ultimate Game Voice Over Event in Los Angeles. You have two days for which you can register. Either Saturday, October 11, 2008 or Sunday, October 12, 2008. Actually, one of those days may all ready be sold out, but if there are a few places left, you’ll be sure to gain a ton of valuable and practical information that will help you move forward in your efforts to get cast in the fast growing business of video games.
You’ll find a very well written, performed and produced audio tribute to Don about half way down the main page at the SunSpots Productions web site. And SunSpots president Thomas Rohe posted a wonderful tribute to Don on his blog, which I somehow missed previously.
Stephani Shelton offers a penetrating analysis in her blog post called Are Unions Still Relevant. Given Stephani’s background as a journalist, I’m not surprised that her post is so thoughtful and well-written. I just wish I’d paid more attention to how her name is spelled before I posted my comment over there.
Joe Cipriano provides this very interesting look behind the scenes in the voice booth at the 60th Annual Primetime Emmy Awards.
Joe Cipriano‘s latest Ask Joe video is a tribute to the late, great, Don LaFontaine.
My friend Juan, better known in the blogosphere as Some Audio Guy, has just posted a very interesting comparison of a couple of microphones and pre-amps. It’s not a fair fight, as Juan notes, but quite interesting.
I had no idea, but my friend and mentor Philip Banks has a voiceover blog. I ran across the link to it today on Erik’s blog. Added to the blogroll, it is. Today.
Voice actor Gregg Berger is featured in this two part interview from TFCon 2008.
My thanks to my friend Craig Crumpton for posting the link on his Voice Actor Appreciation Yahoo group.
B&H’s latest electronic newsletter includes an introduction to a career in audio that has some points of value to anyone needing to understand how to record and edit audio.
My friend Mary Morgan is featured in a delightful video as the voice of Lance, a video called Bowlopolis.
Good for you, Mary. Wonderful work.
(Update: I’ve removed the video link at the request of some of those involved.)
My friend Dave Courvoisier lives and works in Las Vegas, which is relevant to this post mainly because his location puts him in line to visit lots and lots of conventions and expositions when they come through town. Blog World and New Media Expo has just been there and along with several more topical posts, Dave has also prepared a wonderful post listing loads of resources, even providing a downloadable list of even more.
My friend and mentor Philip Banks has posted a photographic summary of the Secret to Success in your voiceover work on the VO-BB. Take a moment to click through. I think you’ll be glad you did.
I’m in Charleston, South Carolina on a business trip and as long as I was going to be here, I posted on the VO-BB asking if anyone might be in the area who’d like to visit. As it turned out, I had two delightful visits today. The first was this morning with my friend Roger Tremaine, who actually lives in Kentucky. But, Roger is here in Charleston to visit his daughter and her husband and the grandchildren. So, he came by the hotel where I’m staying and we had a wonderful time catching with what’s been going on in our respective lives and careers.
Before Roger had to head back to his family we snapped a quick photo together.
A couple of hours after Roger was on his way, my friend Carl Hedgepeth came by for a visit as well. We again talked about a whole range of subjects including Carl’s professional background and of course plenty about our mutual interest in voiceover work. Again it was truly a delightful visit and then Carl had to get to a video shoot nearby where he was serving as a production assistant.
A nice lady walking through the lobby of the hotel was nice enough to snap a photo of Carl and me with my phone camera.
My friend Dave Courvoisier has posted a superb interview on his blog with Dan Lenard on the subject of home studios, voice booths and all things audio. Excellent information that will help you a bunch no matter where you are in your journey into voice acting.
Bob Bergen, who is going to be in Atlanta for a two day animation voiceover workshop October 18 and 19, 2008, is featured in a very nice article in the neighborhood newspaper for North Dekalb (GA) county.
George Whittam has posted a long interview Joan Baker recorded with Don LaFontaine on the front page of his web site. Thank you, George. Great stuff. And thanks for posting the link on the VO-BB, so I could find this.
Rodney Saulsberry’s next Commercial Intensive tele-class runs 3 Thursday evenings starting October 16, 2008. Details are available on his web site (click the Commercials tab) and you can also register for the class while you’re there.
Joystiq has a terrific article about my friend DB Cooper’s presentation at the Austin Game Developers Conference. Good for you, Deirdre and for your friend Maryanne Krawczyk.