Pat Fraley will be holding his Audition Technique Masters Event on Saturday, April 25, 2009 at Cerny/American Creative in Chicago. You can start your lessons before you attend by listening to this audio file.
[audio:https://bobsouer.com/pix/PatFraley_AuditionRootCanal.mp3]You’ll find details and registration information at Pat’s web site. My thanks to DB Cooper for posting the link on the VO-BB.
Nick Parker interviews Dave Foxx, legendary creative services director of Z100 in New York.
My thanks to Peter O’Connell for linking to this video on his blog, thus leading me to it.
Joseph Chan has just graduated from Boston University with his sense of humor intact. Check out his blog, uh, news site for some glimpses into his world. I especially like the Fun With Shapes videos.
After having such a nice time at lunch yesterday with Jamee and Wade, today I’m adding their podcast called Podcast Power Quarter Hour and their blog PPQH Off the Clock to my blogroll.
I’ve just learned that in May of this year Harlan Hogan is planning to conduct a 4 week (two 2-hour lessons per week) teleseminar series called “Starting Your Voiceover Business: Everything you need to know to turn your sideline into a full-time career.” It’s going to be totally focused on the business/career side of the equation. No performance coaching.
That’s about all I know at the moment, but I’ll be sure to pass along more details as I learn them.
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With thanks to my friend Craig Crumpton who posted the link on the Voiceover Universe, I see the sad news this morning that the talented actress and voice talent Betsy Ames (real name Elizabeth MacFarland) died yesterday.
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This week Ryan Drean interviews Eric Chase as part of his on-going podcast series with great producers and voice talent.
Onion Radio News has this bit of hilarity that touches the voiceover world as published on their site on Sunday, March 15, 2009.
My thanks to my friend Steve Knight for passing along the link to me.
My friend and mentor Philip Banks does work for CNN. His latest YouTube post is his work on a special about the automotive industry.
Very nice work, Mr. Banks.
The Harlan Hogan and Jeffrey P. Fisher free teleseminar on How to record voiceovers at home or on the road is now open for registration. You can see many of the questions they’ll be answering on the registration page. By the way, not only is the teleseminar free, so is the MP3 recording of it. When is it? Oh yeah, you probably want to know that too, don’t you?
Tuesday, March 24, 2009 at 3:00 PM Eastern / 12:00 Noon Pacific.
My thanks to Dan O’Day for the email alert this morning about this event.
She wasn’t as well known as Don LaFontaine or Brian James, but Connie Zimet was a great voice talent. Based in Florida, she’s been battling ALS the last few years, and lost her stuggle with that disease two days ago. I learned the news this evening through Linda Bruno’s blog post on Voiceover Universe.
Update: The Miami Herald has a wonderful obituary tribute to Connie in Friday’s paper. My thanks to Zurek and his Voiceover Universe for the link to the story.
In other words, a promo in French for Austrlia.
And why am I featuring this here? Because my friend Claire Dodin is one of the voice actors you hear.
I noticed a Voiceover Universe headline a moment ago (but it’s been several hours since I last visited so I don’t know how long it’s been up there) about the new Tribute DVD being released to honor Don’s memory and to raise funds for the Don LaFontaine Memorial Fund.
Find more videos like this on VU
Click through to Voiceover Universe for all the details and to download the PDF order form.
With thanks to my friend Craig Crumpton for posting the link on his blog, check out part one of a two part interview with voice acting legend Frank Welker at TFW2005.
With thanks to my friend Charlie Glaize for passing along the links to these videos, here is the YouTube entry for Paul Harvey’s final broadcast on February 7, 2009.
And here is an interview Larry King did with Paul Harvey from a few years ago.
Rest in Peace, Paul Harvey. With you, Don and Brian gone from the scene the world is permanently changed.
Brian James has died of an apparent heart attack (according to a news post at AllAccess.com) at the age of 48. Rest in peace, Brian. You are gone far too soon. (My thanks to Jim Feldman and Stu Gray for first alerting us to the news, and to Zurek for further details on his blog.)
My friend Todd Ellis has posted a video about how he turned a really “live” hotel room into a pretty decent studio on the road.
mobile studio from todd ellis on Vimeo.
Very nice work, Todd. Thanks for inspiring those of us who have to travel and voice in all kinds of less than ideal locations.
This message came in my email this evening and if you’re in New York, you just might want to take a few minutes to read this.
The Good News:
Voiceover is the perfect companion/transition career for the Performing Artist.
The Bad News:
Voiceover is the perfect companion/transition career for the Performing Artist.
The Good News & The Bad News:
Voiceover is the single most sought after, auditioned for and potentially lucrative career in entertainment and broadcasting. If you go about it correctly, it can be very good news.If not, it can eat up a lot of your precious time, effort and resources.
And you would be?
Tobias Entertainment Group. We are the pre-eminent training, consulting and producing resource for the established, ongoing voiceover career. Marice Tobias is affectionately known as “The Voice Whisperer”.
We are offering this evening as a reality check – an opportunity to learn about the biz before you jump in. It’s your choice. Get the information, do your research and establish a solid foundation, just as you have with your primary career. Or run out, take a class, record a demo, send it out, and wait for the phone not to ring.
We will cover it all: What it takes to make it in each of the areas of VO: agents, getting & doing the work, auditioning, home studios, marketing, the net, your website and sufficient time for Q&A. There will be representatives from the agent community and established VO talent on hand as well.
Since this is an information-only evening, no microphone or recording will happen, nor will demos be accepted.
Attendance is via payment in advance. No walk-ins. Check or Paypal: $125.00. Call or e-mail Stacey Stahl at CEM for further details at (503) 246-2239.
The Hispanic Organization of Latin Actors (HOLA) has a blog. Recently they featured an interview with my friend Jean-Marc Berne.
